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

The recovery CD does a lot more than just format the drive. I don't know at
what point one would stop the recovery and install the image, and in fact
the recovery installs the service partition, which might cause your image
not to boot.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Matthews" <scott@turnstyle.com>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; "Michael Geary"
<Mike@Geary.com>; "'thinkpad'" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Acronis True Image -- what's your smart procedure?

> I thought the problem was that some people can't seem to restore an
Arconis
> image to a blank new drive -- and that using the recovery CDs to first
> format the blank new drive would put it into a state that would then
permit
> Arconis to restore to that drive. Is that not what has been said here?
> Thanks!
>
>
>
>
>
> > Recovery CD's install the original factory load. Nothing to do with
> > restoring an image.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Scott Matthews" <scott@turnstyle.com>
> > To: "Bruce Markowitz" <scosgt@worldnet.att.net>; "Michael Geary"
> > <Mike@Geary.com>; "'thinkpad'" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 8:11 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Acronis True Image -- what's your smart
procedure?
> >
> >
> > > By "not even close" did you mean that my procedure isn't right, or
that
> > > restoring an Arconis image to a new blank drive doesn't always work?
> > >
> > > thanks, -Scott
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Nope. Not even close.
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Scott Matthews" <scott@turnstyle.com>
> > > > To: "Michael Geary" <Mike@Geary.com>; "'thinkpad'"
> <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 7:48 PM
> > > > Subject: 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 20:34:08 2007