True image has lots of configurations and options, But its main key is that it can backup files, or partitions, or HDD's
When restoring HDD onto a new HDD it makes the partitions etc identical, After a proper restore and everything is working, you can then use partition expert to change sizes etc of partitions. Lots of info on the Acronis website, so don't really need to repeat it here too much. Suffice it to say that depending on how much $$ you want to spend, it's a fine full featured product. I think its much much nicer than Norton. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Eggleton Sent: Wednesday, 28 June 2006 2:42 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: RE: [DUG-Offtopic] Drive imaging [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Wednesday, 28 June 2006 12:45 p.m.: > I am thinking, perhaps incorrectly, that the drive partition > INFORMATION needs to be accurate. If a system drive image restore > restores the wrong partition information, we are not in the right > place when we are done. That's correct, if the size of the drives is different *and* you want to expand / contract one or more of the partitions then the partition table needs to be updated, which all drive image utilities should be capable of. Also, there is one other catch in that if the OS boot drive is changed (ie, the position of the bootable partition in the partition table) then the OS usually needs to be reconfigured to handle that. In Windows this is the hidden file "boot.ini" in the root directory of the boot drive; in Linux it's /boot/grub/grub.conf etc. In Windows if you don't update this I think you get a bluescreen on boot. Ghost updates boot.ini automatically and I would imagine most other partition tools do as well. > However, if the partition information is always external to an image > restore process (is it?), there shouldn't be an issue as far as drive > changes are concerned, provided the target partition is big enough. It's external in that almost all drive imaging utilities understand how to update the partition table, even though they might not always recognise some of the partition types involved. > It's the same issue that would arise if you took a physical > boot/system drive out of machine X and put it in different-machine Y > and expected it to work. It might, to some extent. It usually would > bomb. And system repair may or may not help. Yeah, that's a different issue, and one that could be handled a lot better than it currently is in Windows IMO. Still, if the imaging handles it already then it's not a problem. Cheers, Paul --------------------------------------------------------- Paul Eggleton Ph: +64-9-4154790 Software Developer Fax: +64-9-4154791 CJN Technologies Ltd. DDI: +64-9-4154795 http://www.cjntech.co.nz Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
