Lembit Soobik
lembit.dbamail at t-online.de
Fri Jun 8 08:44:11 CDT 2007
John, IIRC, they say this 'destroy source data' is for cases where you want to replace the system drive. still, I would not do it. just make an image of your system drive and extract it to the new drive, and here is where I had the problem. there is a screen which lets you chose the drive from the image, which I took as 'chose the target' and did not dare to go on, since I did not want to copy it over the existing sysem. Lembit ----- Original Message ----- From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC > Folks, > > I just did my laptop last night. It worked fine, moved all the > system/data > to the USB drive, which for whatever reason would NOT boot even though the > PC claimed to be able to boot off of USB. I suspect that problem might be > the fact that the internal drive is SATA where the drive out in the USB is > IDE. Whatever the reason I can't boot off of the resulting drive, hanging > off the USB port. > > As for problems, the user interface is totally "wizard driven". I had a > little problem figuring things out but in the end it worked. HOWEVER, one > of the screens had a set of three radio buttons, the default of which was > plainly labeled "destroy source data". Now why you would want to destroy > source data is beyond me, and why it would be the DEFAULT is beyond me, > and > why there is no "are you SURE you want to delete the source data" warning > is > beyond me. Let me simply say that I wasn't paying close enough attention. > I copied the data from my laptop to my external USB disk and when I was > done > my laptop wouldn't boot. > > And it took me several hours of screwing around trying valiantly to rescue > my unrescuable laptop drive before I simply copied the data from the USB > back to my laptop. It was at that point that I discovered the "destroy > source data" radio button, UNCHECKED IT, and ended up with my laptop > booting > again AND a copy out on my USB drive, which was what I originally > intended. > > Anyway, as Lembit said, "the only problem I had was a misinterpretation on > one screen, but once I got it, no problems". > > It did function, it functioned well, it allowed me to resize the > partitions > etc. I like to run a dedicated swap file partition which was not on my > laptop originally. Whereas I would NOT have gone through the agony that I > went through just to get that dedicated swap file partition, I did so once > it became obvious that I had to recover my partition. > > One other weirdness is that after copying the system/data back to the > laptop > from the USB drive, the Bluetooth insisted on reinstalling itself. The > old > "new stuff found" message. > > So... It works. Just be on the lookout for a radio button that has you > deleting the source data. > > John W. Colby > Colby Consulting > www.ColbyConsulting.com > -----Original Message----- > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Lembit Soobik > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 8:25 AM > To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC > > Robert, > can you please tell us what these problems are? > I am using Acronis True Image 10 Home, and the only problem I had was a > misinterpretation on one screen, but once I got it, no problems. > have done many images of system- and other drives and installed them on > other drives with no failures. > > thanks > Lembit > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Robert" <robert at servicexp.com> > To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" > <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com> > Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC > > >> Be very careful with Acronis TrueImage, with out going into detail, the >> product seems to get worse with every update. I have been dealing with >> several known issues from version 7, on top of new problems in version >> 10. >> They rarely seem to correct existing problems. >> >> >> >> WBR >> Robert >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby >> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:56 PM >> To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC >> >> Well, my saga with TrueImage is beginning. It refuses to install on one >> machine, I haven't tried it on any others yet. Google shows this install >> problam dating back to at least version 8. >> >> >> John W. Colby >> Colby Consulting >> www.ColbyConsulting.com >> -----Original Message----- >> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach >> Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:25 PM >> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC >> >> John, >> >> I took the drive to my sysadmin at work and he hooked it up with this >> hydra-headed connector to an external IDE drive controller. He saw that >> the >> registry was, indeed hosed. He was able, however, to rebuild the >> registry >> from a restoration point made Saturday morning. He said, though, that at >> one point my drive took down his own machine! >> >> I got the drive plugged back in and it was like it was a Bic pen: >> first time, every time! >> >> Now to begin the removal of Symantec products from my system... >> >> Steve Erbach >> Neenah, WI >> >> >> On 6/5/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote: >>> Steve, >>> >>> I decided to try True Image 10. I have just had all I can stand from >>> Symantec, their tech support is about as bad as it gets. True image >>> is available through NewEgg for $35 including shipping. >>> >>> My biggest issue with this stuff is actually trying a restore. I read >>> one service site that said "never do a restore over existing data" >>> (they were talking images here). The reason is simple, if the restore >>> fails you have hosed whatever chance you might have had of getting the >>> original data recovered. >>> >>> Of course that means getting another disk large enough to perform the >>> restore on, and of course in the case of a laptop, which will >>> physically fit in the machine once you are done recovering the backup. >>> >>> I was reading a side by side review of Symantec's product and True >>> Image. >>> The author stated that he was a die hard fan of the Symantec product >>> until the latest versions started creating corrupt backups. While the >>> product would say that things failed in the LOG FILE, it never >>> actually said so on the screen, so the only way to know whether you >>> got a good backup was go read the log file. Which of course the >>> average Joe will not think is required. In fact the author was burned >>> and discovered this when his backup was corrupt. >>> >>> Anyway, I am going to do this stuff once I get my software. Get a >>> good image of both my laptop and my wife's laptop, then get both >>> backing up critical data. I have already moved my family photos off >>> onto the Raid 6 system, and have a backup area out on that machine for >>> raid protected storage. >>> >>> John W. 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