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1357897	2013-10-25 05:09:00	Before I update to Win8.1, I've created an image with Win 7 File Recovery; and to be double sure, I managed to get hold of a Active@ Disk Image Pro 5.0.2 boot disk and created another image with Active@. Completed the whole process within 15 minutes - pretty fast. I notice that my copy of Active@ is 32 bit, is it compatible with my Win8 x64 bit? cheers.	bk T (215)
1357898	2013-10-25 06:27:00	Should work fine. As long as its the Bootable CD its only reading the Drive ( which is what you select from the options - this takes the hidden partition as well as the OS partition). If it were the other way around Eg: a x64 bit on a older x86 processor then you would have problems. Active @ uses WINPE to load and if thats on the wrong CPU it will soon let you know. As long as its made the image you should be fine.	wainuitech (129)
1357899	2013-10-25 08:02:00	Thanks, wainuitech. Will probably do the update to 8.1 during the long week-end.	bk T (215)
1357900	2013-10-25 08:49:00	If you have a spare HDD about, while this is not 100% Needed to be done, it pays sometimes to actually test the images you have made. What you would do is disconnect any drives you have in the PC, attach another drive and put the image back on this drive. As long as all's gone as it should it will boot into the Windows as the original. One thing Active @ has over the windows image is you can use a smaller drive than original. As long as the drive is large enough to take the OS data etc it will work fine, you just untick the option to keep original size. This is why when working on a customers PC, if I need to reinstall it or theres a possibility something WILL go pear shaped I make an image first and its put onto one of my drives. Nothing worse than making an image then finding for some reason it didn't work, usually happens when you need it the most :D Its only a safety precaution. For customers PC's once the jobs finished, the Image and backup are wiped.	wainuitech (129)
1357901	2013-10-25 10:15:00	Thanks for the advice. Will look for a spare drive to test. My C:\ is a SSD. I don't need another SSD to test, do I?	bk T (215)
1357902	2013-10-25 18:28:00	Active @ is brilliant. Best thing since the real original ghost. It doesn't care what the drive is, or partitions, it will just image back onto whatever drive you tell it to......it allows bigger/smaller drives....old/new drives, it's just writing data to it, not analysing how the drive works. Always an excellent idea.....re formatted sons PC yesterday and after the installs, made an image so he can use that next time. He had windows pollution......and a bit of dust too.....	pctek (84)
1357903	2013-10-25 20:13:00	Wow, that really needed a good spring clean. I've got a couple of good dust photos as well!	linw (53)
1357904	2013-10-26 21:10:00	Update: Just completed updating to Windows 8.1 successfully. :) Everything went through exceptionally smooth; without a single glitch, so far. The whole process including downloading, configuring, etc., took less than an hour - so much quicker than I expected. :) Where do I go to remove those temp files etc.? Remember someone here was talking about huge temp files were created during the updating process.	bk T (215)
1357905	2013-10-26 21:31:00	go to the start screen, type Disk Cleanup You will get several, select the one that only says Disk cleanup, 5272 click that, then click the one shown below 5270 It will take a few minutes to run, once run, select Cleanup system files 5271 Scroll down the list and you'll see a huge one "windows.old" ( from memory) it will be in the GB's. Select that as well as any other logs you want to remove, click OK and it will remove them.	wainuitech (129)
1357906	2013-10-26 21:43:00	Cleaned up C:\ and found the windows.old folder. Safe to delete this folder? Another question: Where's the 'Windows Experience index' gone in Win 8.1?	bk T (215)
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