Acronis TrueImage 10 Home review Few days ago i d…

Acronis TrueImage 10 Home review

Few days ago i downloaded Acronis Trueimage 10 Home and gave it a spin against a 2-partitions SATAII disk. Managed to create a ~4 GB high compression .tib image file off a ~8 GB full Hard Disk (with the rest of the partition, approx. 175 GB empty) in about 25 minutes.

Note here that when i tried to boot off the bootable disc – CD and the Full version (which embeds USB, S-ATA drivers etc) the booting process gave an error (kernel mode…) and froze until i sent it the CTRL-ALT-DEL / kill signal…So, not having another option, i went ahead with the Safe – light if you prefer version.

Backup ok…what about restore you ask? Well, an adventure i may add…
Again i used the simple wizard to :

1. select the image
2. select the target partition will would be replaced…There is also an option to check-restore the Track 0 – MBR 512 bytes of space…

the use of checkboxes somewhat misleads the user into thinking that he can select both a partition and the MBR…Being the case that the selection here is mutually exclusive (if you check MBR partition loses it’s tick sign) i assume that a radio box would be preferable.

3. leave the partition spaces intact, as set by the wizard itself.
4. see the restore summary and Proceed.

Pressed Proceed…System freezes momentarily…Cannot load Windows…Decide to boot from CD again…
There goes the Acronis Loader booting again….Yet, what was previously an Active Partition lettered C: waiting to be replaced by the image now is u n a l l o c a t e d space – empty!

I thought that restoring was an one way procedure…Not 1. Delete target partition and 2. leave unallocated and continue… Then again i may be wrong… (see user manual , section 6.3.12, p. 45)…I presume that was preceeded was an unsuccessful attempt to restore, leaving me baffled on what went wrong…

So, i went through the wizard again to restore the image to the unallocated space this time..successfully this time…

I hope that sharing this event will be educational for you reading it as it was for me living it…
Please, post if this rings a bell to anyone that has used Acronis Trueimage 10 Home…
I am sure we can come up with great findings!