Re: [Thinkpad] Acronis True Image -- what's your smart procedure?

So if I first restore a saved image to a new blank drive, and that doesn't
then boot -- I should next use Thinkpad recovery disks to start a recovery
(at least up through its disk format) and then abort the recovery, and then
restore the image -- is that about right?

Thanks -- I had just expected that a restore would "just work" to a new
blank drive.

> > From: Scott Matthews
> >
> > I've never actually used Thinkpad recovery disks -- you can
> > use those with a new unformatted drive of a different
> > make/size/speed than the original drive?
>
> Yes. The recovery disks do a full, fresh installation of the recovery
> partition and Windows, followed by a lengthy automated process that
installs
> the preloaded software.
>
> For example, you can make a recovery CD+DVD set when you first get the
> machine, then put in a new drive of any type and use that CD and DVD (or
set
> of CDs) to do a fresh recovery onto a new drive of any type.
>
> You can either let that recovery run to completion and get a full install
of
> all the preloaded software, or you can interrupt it once the recovery
> partition has been created (after the first reboot or so), and then boot
> into the recovery partition and restart the recovery from there - this
will
> let you do a custom recovery so you can select the software you want.
>
> -Mike
>
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Received on Sun Nov 11 19:48:20 2007