Thanks Rick, you comment put "do not mount" in the drive selection window
for any and all partitions you do not want to mount" nailed the problem, as far
as doing a restore when Xp is working!
My remaining question(s) are related to doing a Disaster Recovery when XP will
not boot. The Acronis Help & FAQ are unhelpful to me. :( Since you've "done
it", would appreciate your clarification.
I have made a Complete BU file (*.tib) and used that archive as the basis for
making 3 sequential manual Incremental BU files which all use the same
filename, except a 2 is added to the first Incremental, a 3 is added to the
2nd, a 4 to the 3rd, etc.). The Help says when using bootable recovery CD the
archives must be in an Acronis Security Zone which is a partition created for
Acronis on the hard drive which holds the archives. It says Acronis writes
over the MBR with an Acronis boot record. My question is "must I create a
separate partition for these archive image files & why?". I ask because I can
see the files nicely in Explorer and Explorer is used to restore files/folders
and even partitions/disks (I believe) by drag & drop when the OS is working.
If I can use Explorer, why do I need a dedicated partition when I boot from the
CD to access archive files on the external HD?
When doing disaster recovery, am I correct that first you restore the Complete
BU file, and then restore EACH Incremental file starting with the first (where
the number 2 is added to file name), then restoring #3, #4, etc. until you have
restored the last Incremental file made? I say this because the size of the
Incremental archive files makes NO sense to me. My Complete BU on the laptop
was 7 GB (for a 10 GB uncompressed). I made 1 tiny Notepad txt file and made
immediately Incremental #1 whose size was 193 MB!! Immediately I made another
small Notepad file and saved it & made Incremental #2 whose size was 598 MB!!!!
Then I made Incremental #3 with NO changes to anything and used the Incremental
#2 file as the base archive image file relative to which the 3rd Incremental
was to be made. The size of this 3rd Incremental with NO changes was 15 MB!!
This last Incremental file name was the same as the Complete file with a 4 as
the last character( so it appears to not make any difference which file in the
Complete archive is used). Can you explain "why" the Incremental file sizes
jump all over the map when made with a tiny change to the imaged disk or no
change.
To me an Incremental file should be everything changed SINCE the last image was
made (whether a Complete image or an Incremental image). Can you ease my mind
that what I am observing is reasonable and "normal", and can you explain in a
full Restore from disaster whether I need to sequentially restore Incrementals
from the last to the latest, or just use the Complete and the LATEST
Incremental (as I would expect should be done...but the file size changes seem
screwy...like what in the "hell" is making the Incrementals vary from 598 MB to
15 MB)? I would expect the Incremental file size to be less than 1 MB since
all 3 were made within 30 minutes and the biggest change I made to the Disk was
less than 2 KB!
I saw nothing on the Acronis web site FAQ or Help that was clear on the above
questions. Until I have answers, I could not depend on Acronis. Many on this
List have said they love Acronis and use it happily. I would like to join
their ranks :).
Phil
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