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After having used Acronis for several years, I am just about at the end of my using it. I have read so much about the 2010 Home, Build 7061 and yet feel at an impasse. What I formerly understood quiet well (or so I thought) and have had to use my backups to restore my computer several times over the years now seems so distant. Confusion has set in and now limits my ability to work with Acronis. I once read Nick's (SS) remarks about the free MS Windows 7 app. and I may just try that unless others of you have had negative results with it.
I really do appreciate your several inputs. I realize I do still need to rid my installed hard drive of those stored backups to get back my volume.
Hope all of you have enjoyed your Thanksgiving day.
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The built in Win 7 backup utility seems to work just fine. It's a bit limiting in that in only creates one backup at a time and then overwrites it automatically next time so keeping more than one backup, as I always do, requires moving the first backup to a new folder so that it doesn't get deleted. Also, it doesn't compress the files which isn't a huge deal unless you have limited space to store it/them.
You'll still need to create it/them on another partition or drive to be able to use them as a proper disk image replacement though and you should create a Windows 7 system repair disk to be able to use the disk image in case of catastrophic failure.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...sc-create.html
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Like a guardian angel, fink is always there. Thanks again for another post fink and for the info. Now with the ISO of Windows 7, I can install and use Windows 7 and create the Repair you speak of, I guess.(Could do that now--right?) The ISO is like an install CD of win 7; right? The only reason I ever created full backups was because I needed to always have the OS installed because I had no Win 7 disk.
It appears from a quick read of your reply that I will need to do pretty much of what was originally asked of me to prepare my machine. It seems that the more I read/study Acronis then thicker it becomes. Maybe I will just have windows run a backup just in case I have to fall back on it and hope Acronis will sink in after a few days bread from it.
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The basic premise and function of Acronis TI and Windows backup is the same. The important part is to create the backup on a drive that isn't the same drive you are backing up.
I just did a reinstall of my OS on my older laptop earlier today and reinstalled TI 2010. The first time I ran it it defaulted the backup location to my C drive which is not where I wanted it at all. I had to manually aim it to my external drive as the backup location. I suspect that's where the problems started with your backups.
Win 7 image backups will warn you if you try to backup to the same partition that the OS is on (or at least it should) so in that respect it's smarter than TI.
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I very strongly agree with you fink. I have known for a long long time that the warning about saving your backup to the same C: is a no no and believe I have always followed that advice but then I have to wonder how I succeeded in saving 5 backups to C:. Other than not having those backups on my C: perhaps I should just delete them, reclaim my volume on the C: and run the risk of not needing either of them before I can make an acceptable backup. On the other hand, perhaps I can delete the oldest 4 backups, make a good backup and then delete the newest backup(97GB). Wish I knew what those backups contain and it would be interesting to know.
