blwnblue Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 I think you have a general misconception about how Acronis works. Read the instructions again and check out acronis website for how hard drive imaging works. There is no way to "move the 1 file over". Quite possible but I followed the "how to" exactly and the only file I selected was the virgin1.tib there are 13 others...that I did not touch...the Z1 updated and everything works perfect but just wondering if I could've saved myself some time and/or is there any benefit to moving the other 13 .tib files to the HDD.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hyperite Posted May 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 I think you have a general misconception about how Acronis works. Read the instructions again and check out acronis website for how hard drive imaging works. There is no way to "move the 1 file over". Quite possible but I followed the "how to" exactly and the only file I selected was the virgin1.tib there are 13 others...that I did not touch...the Z1 updated and everything works perfect but just wondering if I could've saved myself some time and/or is there any benefit to moving the other 13 .tib files to the HDD.. When you "open" any of the .tib files, they automatically associate with each other to form the completed image. So, unless you specifically deselected a particular partition from the image, you did it right and it loaded the whole ~10gb image. Again, no way to load just one file, since the collection of 14 files contains the completed image. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
big-fokker Posted May 28, 2008 Report Share Posted May 28, 2008 When you pointed Acronis to that first file, it took the rest. Even though you didn't physically select the other 13 files, they're there...if they weren't, your HDD wouldn't function. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clonedkorl Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Is this image able to be placed on a the stock z2 drive that has been unlocked with a program that erased the data on it? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hyperite Posted May 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Is this image able to be placed on a the stock z2 drive that has been unlocked with a program that erased the data on it? yes Quote Link to post Share on other sites
blwnblue Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 I think you have a general misconception about how Acronis works. Read the instructions again and check out acronis website for how hard drive imaging works. There is no way to "move the 1 file over". Quite possible but I followed the "how to" exactly and the only file I selected was the virgin1.tib there are 13 others...that I did not touch...the Z1 updated and everything works perfect but just wondering if I could've saved myself some time and/or is there any benefit to moving the other 13 .tib files to the HDD.. When you "open" any of the .tib files, they automatically associate with each other to form the completed image. So, unless you specifically deselected a particular partition from the image, you did it right and it loaded the whole ~10gb image. Again, no way to load just one file, since the collection of 14 files contains the completed image. OHHHHH!! Ok, kewl!! Thanks for the explanation! And thanks to all of you all that made this possible!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clonedkorl Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 Is this image able to be placed on a the stock z2 drive that has been unlocked with a program that erased the data on it? yes I read through the walkthrough that garrettoomey posted early in this thread on how to install the z3 image without hurting your existing files. If I am going to be applying this to my drive that has been wiped what do I need to do differently from the walkthrough? I am ready to do this now I just need to know a few details about using the true image program with my particular application. One thing that I do not understand is that the walkthrought says that the one partition where the maps and POI is is like 17GB and this file that I downloaded is under 10gb.... Are the files that I downloaded compressed and does the true image software un-compresses them when it puts them on the drive? If someone who has done this could walk me through it over the phone I would be MOST thankfull. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Hyperite Posted May 29, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 ^^ Image is compressed. Not that tough, open in acronis, tell it to write to the AVIC drive, it'll ask if you want to delete the old partitions, you select yes. Baddabing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clonedkorl Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 ^^^ Ok so doing this mod is much easier if you do not care about the existing data on your drive. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
big-fokker Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 ^^^^Correct! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
CaptainInsaneO Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 That IS correct. Just do what I'm going to do, buy another drive and put it on THAT one. That way if you DO care about your data, and you fubar the image process, you always have the old one to fall back on until you get the new one running. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Riceburner98 Posted May 29, 2008 Report Share Posted May 29, 2008 LOL I fubar'd the process of installing the image on a blank drive.. For some reason it won't allow me to do the last partition worth of data. I have plenty of space, don't know what I did wrong.. Still waiting on the Newegg 80G hard drive... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clonedkorl Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 I am not sure how to "tell it to write to the avic drive" I took the drive out of the car tonight paid my $5 to unlock the drive which said that it would destroy all data. I then disabled the lock on the drive following the instructions. I then opened True Image and went to the mount image function and pointed it to the virgin1.TIB file. It never asked me if I wanted to delete the old partitions and when it was done I went and put it back in the unit and it told me in 3 different languages that it was not a usable HDD. What did I do wrong? I know that I am close I am just missing something here.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clonedkorl Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 ^^^ Ok before anyone rushes to respond I got it. Although I am still disappointed that it does not have my home address on the new maps.... My home was built in 06' I figured it would be here.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
clonedkorl Posted May 30, 2008 Report Share Posted May 30, 2008 one more question... are there any more updates that I can apply to make my unit the latest and greatest? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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