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Acronis True Image Home 2011 and "Windows" Folder
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I bought ATI (Acronis True Image) Home Edition 2011 in 2011 so I can backup my Wife's WinXP HDD, "image" to an external HDD. Since that time, I have also used it to "image" the HDD in a couple of my own computers. I never installed ATI, but used the bootable ATI CD instead to create the HDD image(s). You can not backup a folder(s) using the bootable CD. You must install ATI. After ATI is installed, will I be able to use it to copy (backup) the "WINDOWS" folder while Windows is "running"? Thank You in advance, John PS, I looked in the user guide, but there is nothing in it that indicates I can or can not backup "WINDOWS" folder. Note: I know other methods, but it takes more time. |
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Acronis True Image Home 2011 and "Windows" Folder
On Thu, 8 May 2014 08:26:01 -0700, "Bob F" wrote:
wrote: Hi, I bought ATI (Acronis True Image) Home Edition 2011 in 2011 so I can backup my Wife's WinXP HDD, "image" to an external HDD. Since that time, I have also used it to "image" the HDD in a couple of my own computers. I never installed ATI, but used the bootable ATI CD instead to create the HDD image(s). You can not backup a folder(s) using the bootable CD. You must install ATI. After ATI is installed, will I be able to use it to copy (backup) the "WINDOWS" folder while Windows is "running"? Thank You in advance, John PS, I looked in the user guide, but there is nothing in it that indicates I can or can not backup "WINDOWS" folder. Note: I know other methods, but it takes more time. Since I have no problem making a full usable c:drive image from within Windows, I would expect you to have no problem with just the windows folder. I dont know anything about Acronis True Image, but if you can use that program to backup everything except the Windows folder, then you can do what I do on my Win98 / Win2000 dual booted computer. Install another OS to dual boot. (pick one). Then when you're booted to your other OS, just copy the XP Windows folder to your backup drive. The OS files from your second OS will already be backed up, from when you used Acronis. Easier yet, Just get one of those small and easy to use Linux boot CDs. Boot from that CD, and while booted from that CD, copy your windows folder to your backup. I've never done it on my XP computer, but I know I can. I'm a complete idiot when it comes to linux, but even I can copy a file or folder from the HDD to a flash drive from within linux. The only reason I haven't backed up that computer, is because there's nothing on it except the XP install, and a few basic programs, which I have copies of on another computer. Actually, I am not booting Linux from CD, I installed Puppy Linux on C:. That is probably the only linux which has a .EXE installer, which is installed from within Windows. It's the Retro installer on the Puppy site (homepage). It works just like a dual boot, but dont require an extra partition to install. It just creates a folder on C: which is something like one meg in size. Then upon booting, you can select XP or Puppy. It defaults to XP, so you can just let it boot without doing anything, unless you want to boot to Puppy. It dont mess with XP at all, it's just there and acts like any other program. One thing about Linux, it dont call drives (partitions) by drive letters, like "C:". They are called sda1 sda2 sda3, and so on.... To eliminate confusion, I just renamed them to sda1-C sda2-D etc.... |
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