Hi.
Since the new 3.3 is out, i cant run my acronis rescue-cd-image. on 3.2 i startet the image file with . can someone tell me how i can do this on the new 3.3 UBCD ??? Help me please....

> Hi.
> Since the new 3.3 is out, i cant run my acronis
> rescue-cd-image. on 3.2 i startet the image file with bcdw
> /images/acronis.bwt. can someone tell me how i can do this on
> the new 3.3 UBCD ??? Help me please.... [Question]

BCDW has changed with the latest version of CDShell (and hence,
latest version of UBCD (3.3)). To boot Acronis products do
the following:

- Create an ISO of the Acronis product.
- The execution line should be changed to read:
"bcdw Boot /pathto/acronis.iso"

By default, some Acronis product have "Recovery Manager" as
part of the ISO. I'm not 100% sure what this does, but I
think it only works on a system in which you previously
installed their recovery partition, so it may not be useful.
To get a smaller file, you can edit the ISO and remove all files
and directories, then save it. Doing this makes my Acronis ISO
images about the same size they used to be using .wbt or .bif.
TrueImage 8 for me is about 9MB.

-- Charles

@bldrdash. Worked fine Thank you very much for help...

Hello again Charles,

So let's continue here... sorry for my previous post which was at the wrong place, obviously

When you say "Create an ISO of the Acronis product", what file (or files) do you exactly choose to make that ISO ?

It might be a bit stupid, but things seemed simple to me with .bif files as I previously did that way wit EasyBoot. And it worked fine.

Can you still use "Recovery Manager" if you remove that part. This point is important to me as I use the Recovery Partition (very usefull, indeed).

Is ISO really much bigger if I keep this ?



Where do you write this, in custom.scn ?
And do I have to understand that you created a directory called "cba" placed in "Boot" directory and where you put these two .iso ?

Thank you for your kind help anyway,

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Lim.

> When you say "Create an ISO of the Acronis product", what
> file (or files) do you exactly choose to make that ISO ?

There is an Acronis feature when installing/
upgrading, or from the menu (MediaBuilder) to create a CD.
Burn a CD with the Acronis product from MediaBuilder (I use
a RW), then extract and save it as an ISO. That's it. Unlike
the old method where you would then need to take that ISO and
extract the boot information. MediaBuilder doesn't write an
ISO so you have to create the CD first.

> Can you still use "Recovery Manager" if you remove that part.

I have to admit I don't know anything about RM (have never used
it). I thought it had to be installed on the machine in order
to utilize RM from the bootable CD. Best thing to do it try it
out and let us know if it works for others that might be
interested. I'm pretty sure you couldn't using the old .wbt or
.bif method since these didn't have the RM files.

I believe the RM adds about 8MB to each ISO image that has it.

Thank you for your answers.
I have certainly edited my previous post while you were writing this one and you may not have seen my two last questions

It use to work with the .bif and I could have the RM.
Which file exactly do you advised to remove ?

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Lim.

> I have certainly edited my previous post while you were
> writing this one and you may not have seen my two last questions

I think I get all posts; if not, please send me the URL for
the current topic.

>
> It use to work with the .bif and I could have the RM.
> Which file exactly do you advised to remove ?

All files and dirs from the ISO so that it appears to be a blank
ISO. The main product will still work since it's hidden in the
boot sector.

A nice small tool to create ISO images from your CDs is LC ISO Creator (http://www.lucersoft.com/freeware.php). Which reminds me, I should add this link to "Useful Links".

Sorry Charles, I did not explain enough...

I was talking about my following questions :



And same for Victor, sorry... I was talking of files to choose from Acronis. Not about a software to use.
Personnaly I use UltraIso.

Thank you both for your help,

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Lim.

> Quote:
>
> Here's an excerpt from my modified
> menu for Acronis products:
>
> if ($lastKey == key[a]); then bcdw Boot /cba/trueimg.iso
> if ($lastKey == key[d]); then bcdw Boot /cba/diskdir.iso
>
>
> Where do you write this, in custom.scn ?
> And do I have to understand that you created a directory
> called "cba" placed in "Boot" directory and where you put
> these two .iso ?
>
> (end of quote)

Well, I extensively modify my UBCD's menuing, so I actually
have it in filesys.scn, but for those that aren't familiar
with CDShell scripting, custom.csn may be best. You also
need to add a textual description to the menu for the
images you want to load. A few notes about modifying custom.scn:
- Do not add print lines, only modify existing ones
- Keep the quotes on print lines at the same column positions

The path to your image is relative to the CD's root directory.
All CDShell commands are relative to this and paths usually use
the unix forward slash instead of backslash. Given that, I keep
my images in a directory I create, cba, in the root directory of
the cd. So...

RootOfUBCD
/boot
/boot/menus
...
/images
/cba
etc...

You can put your files anywhere; /images may make the most sense:
I just like to separate my images from UBCD production images.

-- Charles

Ok I understand now

And may I ask you what does "cba" mean ?

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Lim.

> And may I ask you what does "cba" mean ?
> --
>
Just my initials...

Ok thank you Charles....
Thought it was some mysterious and important directory

Me... a newbie ??? Noooo

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Lim.

Hello Charles... again...

I wrote something like your
in my custom.scn.

Things seem to go fine, but I've an "Invalid bcdw command".

I saw in other .scn that usually, it is "memdisk" in lieu of "bcdw".

Should I change this ?

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Lim.

Quote:
>
> Hello Charles... again...
>
> I wrote something like your
> Quote:
>
> if ($lastKey == key[a]); then bcdw Boot /cba/trueimg.iso
> if ($lastKey == key[d]); then bcdw Boot /cba/diskdir.iso
> (end of quote)
>
> in my custom.scn.
>
> Things seem to go fine, but I've an "Invalid bcdw command".
>
> I saw in other .scn that usually, it is "memdisk" in lieu of "bcdw".
>
> Should I change this ?
(end of quote)

Are you running UBCD 3.3?

No memdisk, Acronis images must be booted with bcdw.

Yes I'm running UBCD 3.3.

For example, this is what there's in hdd.scn



And below, my custom.scn



There's certainly something I did wrong

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Lim.

I maybe have an answer to this problem.

The word "Boot" in your excerpt may be a part of the command, and not the directory of UBCD.

I'll try with Boot kept before /images/Outils_Acronis/trueimg.iso

Am I right ?

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Lim.

Yes, you MUST have the Boot parameter:

"then bcdw Boot images/Outils_Acronis/trueimg.iso"

Not sure if there will be any problem with the
"Outils_Acronis" directory being > than 8 characters;
I'd change it just to be sure.

-- Charles

Ok, that was my mistake : "Boot" is a command and not the directory.

But, that's funny because it works fine with TI and not with DDS. The Menu screen comes back after 1 or 2 seconds of black screen, when choosing "d" (in my case)

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Lim.

>
> Ok, that was my mistake : "Boot" is a command and not the directory.
>
> But, that's funny because it works fine with TI and not with
> DDS. The Menu screen comes back after 1 or 2 seconds of black
> screen, when choosing "d" (in my case)

"Boot" is a parameter to bcdw, not a command. You won't find
a file named "Boot".

Regarding DDS:

- What version of DDS are you running?
I'm running version 9, Build 534 (Haven't tried the version
released in the last few days, but will this weekend)
- Do you get the Full Version / Safe version screen?
- If you do, try Safe Version.
- Are you running in an emulated environment? (e.g
Virtual PC, VmWare, Qemu)
- Does the original DDS cd work?