Hard Drive Backup with Acronis True Image 11 Software
Step by step instructions on backing up your hard drive with Acronis True Image 11.
Having a hard drive backup image will allow you to restore your computer in minutes rather than days.
This video has raised a fair number of comments. Sometimes my work commitments prevent me from posting quick replies. Please accept my apologies for delayed or missing comments.
Duration : 0:7:32
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thankyou..Mick UK
thankyou..Mick UK
I like Marcium …
I like Marcium Reflect better than the new Acronis…the new acronis is real twitchy…also you should copy your drivers and back them up to an external media because drivers do not ‘always’ go back in or back in as they should…driver magician is a good tool for this…good video though
will it clone my …
will it clone my 32 bit windows vista O S ??
Yeah Ive tried …
Yeah Ive tried cloning another harddrive on my pc but it didnt work Ill try it again because of the disk size was different on the backup and on my harddrive.
VMWARE !!!
VMWARE !!!
hey can this methed …
hey can this methed still work if i make the clone image on my pc and i go out and buy a new motherbord and a new harddrive can i restor it from the new motherbord and new harddrive????????????????????????????????????
after making the …
after making the backup. how do you reinstall the image onto the computer?
after you clone to …
after you clone to a new hard drive
what do you have to do to make your computer function with it
I get the blue screen of death
In the set up under hard drive it still reads my old hard drive
there must be some significant step I need to do but I have no idea
do you know how to …
do you know how to clone just the system partition of a hard drive and not the whole drive? or even better, do you know how to update a cloned system partition? Thx In Advance For Any Info If You Bother To Take the Time to respond
what recorder
what recorder
Thanks for your …
Thanks for your quick reply mangocomputer,
I guess that for easy access through all of my directories I should do as you suggest and simply copy-paste my data to the external drive.
The one drawback with this method is as you say the time it will take.
Acronis is clearly a great piece of software for the task it has been designed for -making incremental backups of your precious data.
I have heard that …
I have heard that Linux OSs such as Ubuntu are far quicker at copying and pasting files.
Have you got any experience with Linux or Ubuntu?
[I have been considering installing a Linux distro called Ubuntu Studio on my rebuilt PC -because it is aimed at multimedia users and I write music]
Hi Julian,
I …
Hi Julian,
I understand the new Acronis True Image 2009 will allow you to back up using ZIP files rather than TIB. This could be the answer. You could find out more on the Acronis Website.
If you are just copying data files you can just copy the files from their original location to the new drive I would drag the files using the right mouse button and select copy rather than move.
But Using Acronis (back up data) would be quicker, but than back to the TIB or ZIP Question.
Hi Julian,
If you …
Hi Julian,
If you are interested in just copying your data, copying and pasting to the external hard drive should prove adequate. I have been doing it for years and it has never created a problem for me. Of course this only works with files created by you and not program files.
When you have Acronis installed on the computer you can open the tib files, via the acronis progam. You might want to see the Acronis documentation that comes with the program.
Hope this helps
Thanks for your …
Thanks for your video tutorial.
I have recently bought a 500Gb external drive to copy my existing drives over to. This is so I can re-format them and re-install an OS on two of them.
Are there any pieces of software out there that can accurately back up your data to another drive whilst leaving your folders browsable by windows?
As you know, when …
As you know, when you back up using Acronis you get a .tib file as your result. If you try exploring this file your folders are not recognised as openable by Windows.
Of course I could just copy paste using Windows itself, but I am led to believe that this would likely be inaccurate, and the chance of non-working data would be quite high.
Especially when you are talking hundreds of Gb.
Cheers,
Julian
go to “set the …
go to “set the options manually” and then go the “splitting” option and choose the size of the disc you want the backup to be saved in.
yes you can, but i …
yes you can, but i can´t figure how to make that backup cd to boot out, since the actual acronis rescue disc can do it.
how do i save my …
how do i save my acronis backup on a cd? any one can help
Cheers!
Thanks for …
Cheers!
Thanks for the rapid reply!
Will remember about the validation bit…too
Hi Calvtan,
Either …
Hi Calvtan,
Either one will work. Sometimes it seems quicker doing it via windows, but I agree with you. I think it is better using the bootable media.
Make sure you can boot from a CD.
Also. If you are backing up to an external drive it would be a good idea to plug in the drive while you are in Windows (seems to recgonize better) then create a folder on your external drive for the backup.
Then insert your bootable CD and restart.
It is a good idea to Validate the image.
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in short to …
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in short to avoid confusions
backing up c: drive
by booting from c: drive (in windows) OR booting from the acronis bootable cd?
whats your opinion on this matter? thanks
Hello mangocomputer …
o mangocomputer,
I am planning to make a full backup image of my laptop hard drive…
i installed the acronis and done the bootable media cd…
should i do the backup using:
a) after booting to current windows, running acronis from there to do backup? -OR-
b) by running the acronis bootable media cd, which boot into some special page of acronis and backup from there?
opt (b) seem like a cleaner backup to me as we are not running anything from the c: drive i am planning to backup.
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it’s free but you’d …
it’s free but you’d be able to find some other means of obtaining the program…COUGHtorrentCOUGH
The best thing to …
The best thing to do is to create your Acronis Image when your computer is operating at its best. Then if you have a problem your restore will bring you back to when your computer was at its best. Of course you will loose anything that you created after the backup.