Acronis Home 2010 Edition Query

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nvida123

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Guys,

I have installed Acronis True Image Home 2010 onto my new pc. I have also installed the drivers and office 2010 pro edition. What i would like to do now is use my imaging software to take a system image in it's current state and burn that image to a DVD, is anybody able to tell me how to do this perhaps as i want to ensure i do this right.


Thanks
 
Do you have an external hard drive by chance? It's a lot easier to just make an image on another drive than it is to make a CD.

If not, just start Acronis, and choose Disk and Partition Backup. The default C drive should already be selected, then tell it to make the image on a DVD (tick the box that says to make the disc bootable). Then just continue through the prompts.
 
nvida123 said:
If i create it on an external HD would i not still need to transfer the image on a DVD anyway?
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You don't need to transfer the image to a DVD at all. You just need to be sure you have a bootable recovery CD and then use that to recover the image to the computer.
 
I don't have a bootable cd, where can i go to create one? I do have an external HD and some old IDE drives(coverter using USB connection), if i use an external HD does it matter if it has data already in it or does it need to be completely empty? Hopefully that makes some sense.
 
nvida123 said:
I don't have a bootable cd, where can i go to create one? I do have an external HD and some old IDE drives(coverter using USB connection), if i use an external HD does it matter if it has data already in it or does it need to be completely empty? Hopefully that makes some sense.
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The image is its own file, so yes, other data can be on the drive.

On the main page of Acronis, there is a button that says "Create bootable media". You use that to make a bootable Acronis CD.
 
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