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Acronis True Image and IBM Images
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 9:26 pm
by DIGITALgimpus
I use Acronis True Image 8 to backup. The entire drive (service and user partition).
If I do a restore, does it restore the boot loader too? So I can press the Access IBM button on load and get to the service partition? Has anyone tried this?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 2:35 pm
by DIGITALgimpus
bump: anyone ever test this?
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 4:26 pm
by jeffcrilly
I used the acronis 9 trial to do a disk clone. The f11 worked on the new drive (but I had other issues with my main partition that prevented booting).
There's also a "fix f11" download from IBM that you use to create a boot diskette that "recovers the F11 functionality" should it get messed up in the boot loader.
(I didnt try the backup-to-image method.)
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 10:44 pm
by d lehmann
1 Go into bios and make the service partition visible.
2 Make a complete hdrive image from boot cd.
3 Restore to a hdrive from boot cd.
4 In bios, make service partition invisible.
Don't try V9 now, it is very, very buggy.
Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2005 10:41 am
by Nolonemo
For anyone looking for the Acronis 8 trial, I posted a link to the location on the Acronis website in a previous post, search for Acronis under my user name.