In news:h2rcni$55b$1@news.eternal-september.org,
~misfit~ typed on Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:20:31 +1200:
> Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
>> In news:h2jg32$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?

Hi Shaun. I don't recall what the latest version of Acronis is, but I
seem to recall the latest and the one before has this problem from what
I read. There was a version just before this that worked just fine. Is
that v11?

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Bill
Windows XP Home SP3 (5.1.2600)
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC