that sounds good, think I'll get that just incase
I've got everything important backed up anyway, don;t bother backing up films etc.... just photos and work stuff, tbh work stuff is the only important bit
all I wanted to do was take an image of my ssd and dump it onto one of my storage drives before I formatted, because there's always something you forget to backup.... but you can;t just copy/past it because or all the system files in use etc... so used acronis
now i think about it, I should have just booted from the windows cd, gone to the recovery console doss prompt and copied it all over in there!
nice, acronis was fine.... until i mounted the backup as another drive, then everything went tits up
but the only way to get at your files is either a full restore/overwrite of the drive you backed up, or to mount the image as an extra drive
I thought there would be some kind of browser to look through the backup... but couldn't find one.... didn't look that hard tbh, image sounded like a good idea at first, till it all went tits up, and then it was too late
if it only happened the first time, I could put it down to something else... my windows install was a bit flakey the first time (which is why I was formatting, install was from ~4years old).... but then when it did it again, on a fresh install, with nothing else installed, i almost threw my computer out of the window
