Recent content by peterh337

This issue has been solved https://forum.acronis.com/forum/126708 It looks like Trueimage simply does not support what it is claimed to support. What is more bizzare is that, as mentioned previously, I have 2 slightly different boot usb flash sticks, both created from the "windows 7 backup"...

Does anyone know what the SSD in the Tablet 2 looks like, from the SATA point of view? I could solve this by prizing open the T2 case, extracting it, installing it in another computer, and restoring the Trueimage .tib file onto it. But if it isn't a normal SATA... are there adaptors?

I have just posted this in the (almost dead) Acronis forum... This is a long story but basically I can have two of these (one 3 years old and one unused) and need to clone the first to the second. Both have legal win8. I have found only two ways: (1) backup and restore with the "windows 7...

Yes, but how?

I left it running for 10 days while I was on holiday and when I came back it still looked the same (blank screen, USB HD light on) so I rebooted it. It just booted back into the existing OS! So nothing worked. So I am still looking for a win8 clone solution which doesn't need the target to be...

I have tried another method: downloaded Trueimage 2017 (30 day trial). This doesn't do much but it does restores from the .tib file, which I have for the source T2. The thing about *installing* Trueimage on the target machine is that you don't need to create boot *media* even though it requires...

The target drive has win8 on it, but the partition layout is different from the source. It also has a nonstandard Lenovo recovery partition, so all that has to be overwritten. What I CAN do is install some suitable software on the target drive. Obviously one could not clone to a target which...

Could you please elaborate? Restore programs like the Trueimage boot CD contain most of Linux, which comes with enough drivers to do all the stuff needed e.g. restore from an image on a network drive.

Any offers on this?

I don't think this is possible. Well, not unless the destination machine can run a bit of code which takes over at a low (driver) level, receives the HD image data stream from the source, and just writes it to the HD directly, then reboots. This is because you cannot rewrite a partition of the...

That is really great - thank you. I will give it a try.

What seems really stoopid is making the "auto delete" the default option. This carries the potential for a disaster, obviously, if you happen to do a false detection on something really popular e.g. some part of M$ Orifice! To limit the damage, the AV vendor should do immediate online reporting...

Thanks for that. Just looked it up. Looks nice. BUT - Backups are easy - you can use the oldest version of Trueimage (I have 2008 too; up to 2010 you could install the same S/N on unlimited machines because it didn't online check) because the backup runs via the OS, which is running fine at...

Great - I didn't know of the %freespace% variable. However, does it support the 1TB boundary? A lot of software fails on this.

OK, but most serious computer users are running stable software. They are not going to have some piece of code getting "updated" every day and probing their machine for byte sequences and deleting the said file if such a sequence is found. This is the problem with AV software - it is always...