The Acronis software did restore my windows back up and all is good so far. I even saw an option to convert a windows backup to Acronis backup.

I did rear about the defrag thing, so for now that my backup in on a different internal drive I gotta watch my PC pitstop software if it suggest a defrag to that drive. I will be getting a external and doing it there in the near future.


Quote Originally Posted by MikeHawthorne View Post
Hi

I use Acronis, it will not open a Widows back up, (I tried), don't put your backups on a drive you defragment, (I did that too) buy an external USB or FireWire drive and put you backups on that, and only turn it on when you are using it to backup or restore (it'll last forever).

If you are like me and have a lot of stuff you just don't want to take any chances on losing, do it twice on two different drives.

I should use off site storage too, I haven't done that yet but I'm thinking about it.

Mike