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In the last post I described how to recover data from a computer that wouldn’t boot. My next post will be Installing and using Acronis True Image Home.

Now I will cover using Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery to backup a complete Windows or Linux system and it should work on just about any computer system or disk that you want.

I have already created a backup of my Ubuntu 9.04 system. I have my operating system in one partition, my "Home" in another partition and of course there is the "Swap" partition. I also backed up my "Data" drive while I was at it. I did a backup of all four at the same time. On looking at my backup file I see that it also did a backup of the "MBR and Track 0" which I didn’t ask for. Looks pretty good to me.

Let’s get on with actually doing a backup of LapDancer, my HP Pavilion dv7 laptop, and creating a step by step set of instructions. I will create this document as I actually do the steps. You can put the backup on a DVD or other storage media. I have an empty external hard drive so I am going to use that for this project.

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I was at a friend of mines house a few months ago and found out that her old Windows XP computer wouldn’t boot so she had decided to buy a new laptop computer. This seemed logical to me since it was pretty old. The problem was, all of her genealogy data, photos, documents, etc. were on the "C" Drive and she didn’t have a backup. She had checked at a local Best Buy and it was going to be expensive to recover the data.

Old Bob to the rescue. I had just bought a copy of Acronis True Image Home 2009 PC Backup & Recovery because of a hard drive crash myself. While reading the paper that came with it I had noticed that you could use the CD to recover from system problems. I wasn’t sure but it may be able to help her. Of course the first thing I tried to do was recover the system but the computer had a bunch of .dll files that were bad and every time I downloaded and fixed one (using my computer) another would show up as bad. It didn’t take much of that before I made up my mind to try Acronis True Image Home. I’m very happy to say that it worked great. I recovered all of her data and put it on a DVD for her. After I was sure it was safe, I reinstalled her Windows XP system and she now has two computers. I don’t have to tell you that she was a Very Happy Young Lady.

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