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Skriven 2005-05-27 16:55:48 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 8037 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
Ärende: True Image foul up
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On Fri, 27 May 2005 13:10:00 -0400, JAY EMRIE -> ALL wrote:

Hi Jay:

 JE> A few days ago I reported that I had to restore a program using the
 JE> "Restore Image" function of True Image. All went well - I restored the
 JE> desired program with no problem.
 JE> Then the fun began. I could not "unplug" the image no matter what I did.

I don't understand your use of "unplug" the image?  The only time an image
requires unplugging is when you load the image to the system in order to
extract individual files from it.  True Image creates virtual drives for
each image of a partition in that situation.  Is that what you were doing?
Restoring an image to an individual partition or an entire drive requires
booting the machine with the True Image CD and the running the restore.

 JE> After fiddling a good bit it finally dawned on me that somehow True
 JE> Image named my USB thumb drive as the image even though the original
 JE> data was still on the thumb drive! I could not open it via My Computer.
 JE> Plugging it in opened it up as Virtual Clone Drive.

That definitely sounds strange.  But why was the original data on the
thumb drive or was that where you had first copied it to?

 JE> I finally managed to delete both the thumb drive (virtual clone drive)
 JE> using Device Manager and deleting-removing both the thumb drive and the
 JE> Virtual clone drive. I had already saved the data on the USB drive.
 JE> Renamed it "USB 1 Gig" and restored the data. Now all is well.

You lost me here.

 JE> For the life of me I can't remember whether the USB was plugged in or
 JE> not when I made the restore image.

It doesn't matter when creating images since the system will always
assign it a valid drive letter anyway.  True Image when booted from the CD
should be able to "see" all USB external devices: HDDs, Thumb Drives. DVD
drives, etc.

 JE> Funny thing - I restored the system to a week before I started this
 JE> problem and the same misnamed drives were still there, Makes me wonder
 JE> just how truly good the True Image restore function actually is.

I'm convinced True Image is steady and does what it's supposed to do.
However, its interface and instructions during the restore process could
be better refined.  You remember the problem I had last week accidently
incorrectly restoring a partition as "extended" rather than "primary".  Of
course I could have paid closer attention to what I was doing, but the
confusing instructions given by True Image restore didn't help.

Anyway, since we both recovered... all is well that ends well.

Regards.

chscag@gmail.com

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