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> I misunderstood your question in a previous post. I thought you meant
> the boot CD I made. I did not make an image CD. I put the images on 2
> outboard USB hard drives, each 275Gigs.
No, you did not misunderstood. So check again:
- you have created bootable TI Rescue CD
- you have booted your PC with TI Rescue CD
now you run Linux of that CD
- you have created an image of your internal HD,
and pointed to an external USB drive as image file
location.
Now, to check if you can use that image for recovery,
did you boot your PC with TI Rescue CD again,
and tried to restore previously created image?
> >And, why you were using WinXP in Safe Mode?
>
> That's what I was wondering, but it is what Acronis kicked me into each
> time I tried to Restore an image.
Because you should not boot your PC normally, with WinXP,
but use TI Rescue CD to boot from instead.
> Drive Image used to put one in DOS to
> make an image or to restore an image. According to Acronis, you cannot
> make a backup while using Windows itself. But is not one still using
> Windows while in Safe Mode. It doesn't make sense to me. Especially
> since they continually brag about their "shadow" technology and how it
> eliminates the problem of making images while in Windows.
You confuse TI image making with TI backup.
They are two different things.
> I don't understand these new programs at all. The seem to have lost ease
> of functionality with their insistence on using "shadow" technology,
> dumping to virtual drives, and other seemingly useful goodies that only
> take from their main purpose: making a dependable image which is easily
> made and restored. A five-year-old could do it with Drive Image. Of
> course now that Norton has "worked it over" into Ghost, it probably
> gives techs fits. (I've hated Norton junk since his DOS programs screwed
> up my DOS machines years back. I've never used any Norton/Symantec
> program since.)
I have a different opinion about old Ghost, but that's me.
> As far as I'm concerned, I have my XP Pro CD with which to reinstall
> Windows if need be. I have all my data and program install files backed
> up on my two outboard disks, so I'm saying to hell with this stupid
> problem. Although, I will post Acronis' answer to this nonsense if and
> when I get one.
>
> For the hundredth time: I cannot understand how Powerquest's Drive Image
> was so simple and effective, and this new junk is so damn complicated.
> Of course I really do know. They screwed up trying to be all things to
> all people instead of just doing one simple thing: making and restoring
> images.
I must disagree. But maybe they should have a "light" version -
Rescue CD based only, for people like you, looking for simplicity
rather than additional features.