On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 21:57:26 -0600, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:59:32 -0600, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

Let's suppose you have a disk with 4 partitions on it. AFAIK, you can
either clone the disk (the entire disk), or choose which partitions to
image, but not image the whole disk in one image, and one simple
operation,
unless I'm missing something.

Yes, you're missing something. When you choose to create an image, you
can select one partition, multiple partitions, all partitions, or the
entire disk.

OK, I looked again at Acronis True Image, and the only way I see to do that
is by individually selecting each partition in its own separate checkbox.
There was no "entire disk" image selection, per se (unlike for cloning), but
selecting ALL the partitions would presumably be doing that (i.e imaging
the entire disk stucture). (MBR and Track0 are not listed as selections, so
I guess that's automatically taken care of when you backup C

Look closer when you open ATI. The Backup section defaults to
"partition mode", which is what you described above, but you can also
switch to "disk mode".

In my experience, using anything from the partition mode will result
in a restored system that needs to be repaired before it'll boot.
Using disk mode (on the system drive) will result in a restored system
that's essentially a clone of the backed up drive, bootable as
expected.