I guess I'm a conspiracy theorist when it comes to Microsoft and computers in general. Now I add Acronis TrueImage to my list of suspect applications.
Today I went over to my sister's house to get a drive that I put in their computer for temporary while they transitioned from Windows ME to XP (not sure whether to giggle or cry every time I think of Windows ME. I usually just do a little of both. Heh). I planned to use Acronis TrueImage 8.0 (bootable CD) to image the temporary drive to their old WinME drive.
Well, I was going to do a straight clone, but had a problem: TrueImage refused to clone the drive without "clearing" the source drive. Why?? I can't figure that one out. I'm not a criminal! Obviously I didn't want to do THAT, because if there was a problem, then it would be a very *big* problem.
So I decided to make an image file of the temp drive on their old drive. That went seemingly okay, though it took a while. After booting back into Windows, I copied the image files (2) to the temporary drive, and proceeded to reboot the computer into Acronis. Started Acronis imaging the old drive from the .tib files, and after a few minutes got a message that the "archive is corrupted." A couple more tries and I gave up and went home. I didn't want to spend another hour trying to figure it out. Grr!
I guess I learned my lesson. Next time I'll just break out the trusty old Ghost floppy disk.
P.S. The only reason I started using Acronis was because it kept my Linux bootloader intact. Is there another imaging/ghosting/cloning solution that would keep GRUB in one piece?
Today I went over to my sister's house to get a drive that I put in their computer for temporary while they transitioned from Windows ME to XP (not sure whether to giggle or cry every time I think of Windows ME. I usually just do a little of both. Heh). I planned to use Acronis TrueImage 8.0 (bootable CD) to image the temporary drive to their old WinME drive.
Well, I was going to do a straight clone, but had a problem: TrueImage refused to clone the drive without "clearing" the source drive. Why?? I can't figure that one out. I'm not a criminal! Obviously I didn't want to do THAT, because if there was a problem, then it would be a very *big* problem.
So I decided to make an image file of the temp drive on their old drive. That went seemingly okay, though it took a while. After booting back into Windows, I copied the image files (2) to the temporary drive, and proceeded to reboot the computer into Acronis. Started Acronis imaging the old drive from the .tib files, and after a few minutes got a message that the "archive is corrupted." A couple more tries and I gave up and went home. I didn't want to spend another hour trying to figure it out. Grr!
I guess I learned my lesson. Next time I'll just break out the trusty old Ghost floppy disk.
P.S. The only reason I started using Acronis was because it kept my Linux bootloader intact. Is there another imaging/ghosting/cloning solution that would keep GRUB in one piece?
