Re: Acronis True Image Home v. 10 problem (doesn't work, avoid, in favor of Norton Ghost)

[Timothy Drouillard]

Well, usually you start with a working system, then you install Trueimage on
the system. From there you have Trueimage create a bootable recovery CD for
that system, which would then contain all the drivers necessary for that
system.

Later on, if you then need to perform a restore, you boot from that CD to
perform the restore. In that case, even though the current video driver was
bad/incorrect/corrupt, the driver on the restore CD should be a working
driver since it was working properly when the restore CD was created.

Unless of course you actually replaced/changed the video card itself (or
another piece of hardware), it which case, you should have re-created the
recovery CD.


"raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 26, 4:05 pm, John Adams <m...@none.invalid> wrote:
>>
>
>> Prbably because you used safe mode instead of the full mode. Acronis
>> needs to load a driver for your external USB HDD.
>
>
> Aha--good point, except for one thing: I could not load "full mode"!
> I only could load safe mode! The corrupted video card driver on my C:
> drive was preventing me from loading XP full mode. So, the only
> solution, if I used your suggestion, would have been to nuke the hard
> drive, reinstall Windows XP (hopefully a new installation would detect
> my video card), reinstall Acronis, and activate it with the activation
> key (and hope that Acronis doesn't mind if I reactivate the program
> twice), and then, once in full mode in XP using Acronis, try and
> reinstall the C: (boot) drive image from the USB drive, like you say.
> That would have been a huge risk, one that I was not prepared to take
> (since if reloading of the C: image fails, you're stuck).
>
> However, I'm glad you suggested this, since I suspected the reason
> Acronis failed may have had to do with the sensitivity of the boot
> sector image (C: drive), and that if I was restoring a non-C: drive,
> like the seperate D: drive I maintain, probably I would not have this
> problem (since if the D: drive crashed likely I could load Acronis
> under the Windows XP full mode). So, I intend to use Norton Ghost for
> the important C: drive, and Acronis for the less-critical D: drive (I
> keep my data on the D: drive, and very few applications on it).
>
> RL
>
>

 

[M.I.5¾]

"raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1193493497.786429.26480@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com...
> On Oct 27, 3:44 am, "Timothy Drouillard"
> <timothydrouill...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Well, usually you start with a working system, then you install Trueimage
>> on
>> the system. From there you have Trueimage create a bootable recovery CD
>> for
>> that system, which would then contain all the drivers necessary for that
>> system.
>>
>> Later on, if you then need to perform a restore, you boot from that CD to
>> perform the restore. In that case, even though the current video driver
>> was
>> bad/incorrect/corrupt, the driver on the restore CD should be a working
>> driver since it was working properly when the restore CD was created.
>>
>> Unless of course you actually replaced/changed the video card itself (or
>> another piece of hardware), it which case, you should have re-created the
>> recovery CD.
>>
>> "raylopez99" <raylope...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1193475143.397180.49630@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com...
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Oct 26, 4:05 pm, John Adams <m...@none.invalid> wrote:
>>
>> >> Prbably because you used safe mode instead of the full mode. Acronis
>> >> needs to load a driver for your external USB HDD.
>>
>> > Aha--good point, except for one thing: I could not load "full mode"!
>> > I only could load safe mode! The corrupted video card driver on my C:
>> > drive was preventing me from loading XP full mode. So, the only
>> > solution, if I used your suggestion, would have been to nuke the hard
>> > drive, reinstall Windows XP (hopefully a new installation would detect
>> > my video card), reinstall Acronis, and activate it with the activation
>> > key (and hope that Acronis doesn't mind if I reactivate the program
>> > twice), and then, once in full mode in XP using Acronis, try and
>> > reinstall the C: (boot) drive image from the USB drive, like you say.
>> > That would have been a huge risk, one that I was not prepared to take
>> > (since if reloading of the C: image fails, you're stuck).
>>
>> > However, I'm glad you suggested this, since I suspected the reason
>> > Acronis failed may have had to do with the sensitivity of the boot
>> > sector image (C: drive), and that if I was restoring a non-C: drive,
>> > like the seperate D: drive I maintain, probably I would not have this
>> > problem (since if the D: drive crashed likely I could load Acronis
>> > under the Windows XP full mode). So, I intend to use Norton Ghost for
>> > the important C: drive, and Acronis for the less-critical D: drive (I
>> > keep my data on the D: drive, and very few applications on it).
>>
>> > RL- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Thanks. I did not realize that with the Acronis "Bootable Recovery
> CD" (which I did have a copy of) that it would have all your drivers
> to make your particular system work--I thought it was just a generic
> bootable disk like BART is.
>

That is not actually true. The bootable recovery CD That trueimage creates
is a generic disk that should boot on the majority of systems (and it is
linux based so it couldn't use the drivers on your PC anyway). The
principal change between increments of the product is revisions to the
bootable CD image to cope with new motherboards and chipsets.

Once you have created your bootable CD, you should check that it works with
your hardware setup. If it doesn't, download the latest version of
Trueimage, and try that. If it still doesn't work, e-mail Acronis with your
problem and what hardware you have. They do take note.

 

[M.I.5¾]

"John Adams" <me@none.invalid> wrote in message
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> raylopez99 wrote:
>
>> I just thought of something--when the restore failed, I was inside of
>> WIndows "Safe Mode" and accessing Acronis that way--another poster
>> said I should be inside WIndows "Full Mode" (non-safe mode).
>
> Yea, I missed the part about you using it inside windows. I was talking
> about useing it from the boot disk. I think, but not positive, that if
> using the boot disk method you have to use full mode to get it to load the
> USB driver.

The boot disk comes with a set of generic USB drivers. It also come with
Firewire drivers so that you can restore to a Firewire drive.