I just completed a reformat last night and would like to restore my computer to the last time I backed it up with Acronis. So far I have not installed anything other than Windows XP. Should I put the chipset drivers and PS2 in or does the restore automatically do that?
Many thanks.
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Everything that was on your drive when you backed it up with Acronis will be put back.
So if you had the drivers installed before the
backup you won't need to install them again.
Thank you sq1221. That will make things a lot easier.
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Tried to run Acronis and it knocked out the operating system. Back to square one!
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Hi BG, did you boot from the disk that I am sure you made when you installed Acronis?
No Crash. I never did make a disc. I need a few lessons on how to run Acronis.
I have reinstalled XP and have been able to recover most of what I need.
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Make a disc then boot from it, it will then give you the options of which back up you want to run then tick the box and when its finished XP will be there in all its gory
I prefer re-installing myself. At least with a freshly installed XP things are up to speed again. (for a couple of months). I just re-installed on a new Kingston V series Generation 2 64GB SSD (great drive with superb garbage collection 240MB/s plus read, 100 MB/s write) Due to the good garbage collector it is especially suited for OS that do not support TRIM. It does support TRIM, but does not support NCQ. Only minus is the high temp (47C-52C) but that will not harm the drive. I bought the notebook set including Acronis and an external 2.5" USBenclosure for some 130 euro.
The drawback of using Acronis is that it will copy everything 1:1 - including any malware that has been collecting and not been removed before making the acronis image.
The drawback of installing is you need to let it run overnight a couple of days to pick up all the updates from M$ like SP3 and security stuff. I could not use Acronis myself. I heard it does not support ext4 and sees that as a damaged ext3 system. I need ext4 for my Ubuntu 9.10 2nd partition (dual boot XP - U9.10)
I agree with that Max and usually have no problem installing from scratch. With programes like Mozilla Back Up, it meets all my needs. But it was my wife's business computer and she uses things like Outlook and Blackberry so has lost a lot of her contact information.
Where is that booger Quazi when you need him. He knew Acronis well.
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Acronis can be used in several ways so it depends on how you set it to make the backup. Most people use it to make a complete disc image (a comply copy of everything on the HDD, OS and all) and then just copy the image back to the HDD when they need the backup restored. You can also set acronis just to make normal backups of things and this I'm not as familiar with.
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