Re: Image Files - Safety

does Acronis TrueImage offer some methods for extracting data
directly from the image, or at least mounting it?<

Hummm. Another good point. I don' know. I haven't bought the software yet
but I certainly need to get the answer to this one. I'll call that mechanic
who put the file there. Thanks, Sebastian. And for the references as well.

"Sebastian Gottschalk" <seppi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4nieedFa7b6cU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
jaygreg wrote:

Would you please fix your quoting? Thanks in advance.<<
Sorry, Sebastian. I don't know what you mean. Explain please.

You're quoting by putting the entire text in tripple brackets instead of
line quoting it with single brackets. Not even Outlook Express, which
you're misusing as a newsreader, does such a strange thing on it's own.

<http://learn.to/quote>

Well, you really should know how to Google.<<
A simple "Yes" or "No" would suffice. The purpose of language is to
communicate. not impress. I'm not as familiar with this subject mater as
you
and defer to your expertise. I did Google both, found "Bzip2" compression
software but in the time I cared to devote to the search, found only
"designated driver" for "dd" . which I rejected as being your reference.

Both Bzip2 and 'dd' belong to the Bin Utils, one of the most common
collection of software utilities on Unix environments, despite also being
available and very useful on Windows.

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)>

I did buy another external drive; that's where the image file resides.

Well, the problem is that you'll need to restore the image to some drive
for accessing the contained file system, and that's where you need an
extra
drive. Or does Acronis TrueImage offer some methods for extracting data
directly from the image, or at least mounting it? You need to tell me, I
don't own this software and neither the operating system it runs on.

though I am curious about your reference to "tax
declaration.odt". What the "odt" extension associated with?

OpenDocument, the most common standardized free document exchange format.


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