Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
> In news:h2jg32$ale$1@news.eternal-september.org,
> ~misfit~ typed on Fri, 3 Jul 2009 11:29:19 +1200:
>> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
[snip]
>>> Hi Shaun. I too image my OS and applications whenever I make any
>>> major changes. Although I use Ghost v11 that I have on BartPE SDHC
>>> bootable cards. Acronis is said to break if you move the images to
>>> another drive, is this true? Ghost is okay with this.
>>
>> Hi Bill. No, that's not true with Acronis. Just yesterday I imaged
>> the boot and programme partitions on the 160GB drive to an external
>> USB drive, swapped the 160GB out for a new 320GB drive, booted from
>> the Acronis CD and restored the images off the USB drive to the new
>> drive. (I prefer to do that rather than the 'clone' option, although
>> that works fine too.)
>> It worked perfectly. I even re-sized the partitions as I did it. I
>> then simply used the rest of the space to make a data partition, put
>> the old internal drive in a dock and copied my data over USB to the
>> new drive. To use the machine you wouldn't notice any difference
>> (except it's a bit faster to respond and there's lots more room).
>>
>> I'm using Acronis True Image Home version 11.
>
> Hi Shaun! Oh I meant where ever you save it to, if you move that copy
> to somewhere else, it won't work is what I have heard. Just the later
> versions of Acronis is supposed to have this problem.

Hey Bill. Later than ver. 11? I've had no problem with moving images around
between HDDs, USB flash drives and even DVDRs. They still work just fine. I
have a library of images for all my machines on my server and have often
copied them from there to whatever media suits the occasion and restored
them just fine.

TI Home ver. 11 has *never* let me down so I've never wanted to upgrade or
patch it. No point 'fixing' something that isn't broken right?

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

"Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he'll
be warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.