Acronis 11 backup

I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a 1TB
internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install. Could
someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot
disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny

"CdLsRN" <> wrote:

>I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
>external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a 1TB
>internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install. Could
>someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot
>disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny

Acronis will make the boot disk for you. Open it, choose the option.

Use Acronis "Help" to learn how to do your imaging.

If you start Acronis, you will find the wizards simple to follow. - its all
there
In your earlier post you refer to a 50gb limitation, I dont know where you
think you found this info, or what exactly you mean. I have found no
limitation in cloning or restoring.
PS if your intention is to use your external for backing up to, I'm not sure
why you thought it neccessary to do a Custom Installation.

"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
>external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a
>1TB internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install.
>Could someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a
>boot disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny

I didn't want the google toolbar and extras like that. I am trying to do
a backup disc with the wizard but since I don't totally understand this, I
am not doing it right because the "next" button is grayed out. Someone else
set up my system for me and I don't know what everything is. Acronis opened
what it thought would be the boot info but it evidently wasn't. Ginny
"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
news:...
> If you start Acronis, you will find the wizards simple to follow. - its
> all there
> In your earlier post you refer to a 50gb limitation, I dont know where you
> think you found this info, or what exactly you mean. I have found no
> limitation in cloning or restoring.
> PS if your intention is to use your external for backing up to, I'm not
> sure why you thought it neccessary to do a Custom Installation.
>
> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
>>external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a
>>1TB internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install.
>>Could someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a
>>boot disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny
>
>

The more detailed information about the whole product usage can be found in Acronis True
Image 11 Home user guide available at
http://download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage11_ug.en.pdf

Source: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../articles/872/


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"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
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|I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
| external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a 1TB
| internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install. Could
| someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot
| disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny
|

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"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
>external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a 1TB
>internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install. Could
>someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot disc,
>and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny

If you have the Business/Ultimate/Enterprise edition of Vista,you can use
the `Complete PC Backup and Restore` feature available in these editions by
going to the `Backup and Restore Center` in Start>All Programs>Maintenance.

"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
news:...
I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a 1TB
internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install. Could
someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot
disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny

I have the regular Ultimate edition.


"Hiren" <> wrote in message
news:38C90B67-31A0-43E4-AAF3-...
> If you have the Business/Ultimate/Enterprise edition of Vista,you can use
> the `Complete PC Backup and Restore` feature available in these editions
> by
> going to the `Backup and Restore Center` in Start>All
> Programs>Maintenance.
>
> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
> external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a
> 1TB
> internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install.
> Could
> someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot
> disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny
>

Both regular and irregular versions of Ultimate have CompletePC Backup and
work fine with Acronis as well.

"CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
news:...
>I have the regular Ultimate edition.
>
>
> "Hiren" <> wrote in message
> news:38C90B67-31A0-43E4-AAF3-...
>> If you have the Business/Ultimate/Enterprise edition of Vista,you can use
>> the `Complete PC Backup and Restore` feature available in these editions
>> by
>> going to the `Backup and Restore Center` in Start>All
>> Programs>Maintenance.
>>
>> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
>> news:...
>> I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
>> external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a
>> 1TB
>> internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install.
>> Could
>> someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a boot
>> disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny
>>
>

Very cute, Colin. I meant it was not a "Business/Ultimate/Enterprise"
edition. ...but thank you for that.
Can you tell me how I can tell which drives are which , on my machine. My
external drive was 'S' and I had a 8 GB partition for Temp folders. 'D' has
changed to what I expect is this WD external drive.


"Colin Barnhorst" <> wrote in message
news:C89966FA-DE73-43A0-903F-...
> Both regular and irregular versions of Ultimate have CompletePC Backup and
> work fine with Acronis as well.
>
> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>I have the regular Ultimate edition.
>>
>>
>> "Hiren" <> wrote in message
>> news:38C90B67-31A0-43E4-AAF3-...
>>> If you have the Business/Ultimate/Enterprise edition of Vista,you can
>>> use
>>> the `Complete PC Backup and Restore` feature available in these editions
>>> by
>>> going to the `Backup and Restore Center` in Start>All
>>> Programs>Maintenance.
>>>
>>> "CdLsRN" <> wrote in message
>>> news:...
>>> I down loaded the Acronis 11 backup software for my Western Digital 1TB
>>> external hard drive. I have an internal drive with Windows. 750GB. And a
>>> 1TB
>>> internal drive with several partitions in it. I did a custom install.
>>> Could
>>> someone who is familiar with backups please walk me through making a
>>> boot
>>> disc, and explain how to back up to me. Thank you. Ginny
>>>
>>
>