Somewhere on teh intarwebs BillW50 wrote:
> 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?

I don't know. I've just checked Acronis' web page and they now seem to name
their products after the year (e.g. Acronis True Image Home 2009). So I'm
not sure how old my version 11 is, I've been using it maybe two years?

Cheers,
--
Shaun.

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