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

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I was a long time Ghost user myself from way back when you ran it from a

single floppy. (version 5 or 6)

 

I've discovered that Ghost was fine up and until Symantec bout it and came

out with Ghost 2003. From there on it was all downhill. Much more complex to

use, etc.

 

That's when I heard about Acronis Trueimage and downloaded their 15 day

trial version, I think that was back at ver 8 of Trueimage.

 

I've never gone back to Ghost since.

 

I haven't had a single problem with Versions 8,9, or 10 in both backing up

and restoring anything.

 

I'm sorry that it's just not working properly for you.

 

 

"raylopez99" <raylopez99@yahoo.com> wrote in message

news:1193057319.859754.144290@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com...

>I have Acronis True Image Home v. 10 build 4942, running it on a four

> year old Pentium IV running Windows XP Pro SP2. There are two

> internal EIDE HDs and two USB HDs.

>

> Up to now, I've been using Norton Ghost to restore my "C" drive with

> no problems. Several times I've restored the entire C drive using

> Norton Ghost when new hardware drivers were installed and crashed my

> system (that is, getting a BSOD, and you have to restart in Safe

> Mode).

>

> Because Acronis has such a good reputation I decided in the last few

> weeks to forgo Norton Ghost (a 2001 version that I boot from a CD) to

> back up my C drive, using only Acronis v. 10 from inside of Windows.

> Big mistake.

>

> When in fact a new hardware driver (the usual suspect, the video card)

> caused my PC to crash, I tried to load an image file of the C: drive

> that I had just backed up using Acronis. Much to my surprise, the

> image file, which was on a USB external HD, would not load. I got a

> bizarre error message from inside of Acronis that was clearly intended

> for an Acronis programmer (an error code that was a number). I was

> running the program in "Safe" mode from inside the Administrator

> account.

>

> Luckily, I "rolled back" the drivers (all four of them, since I had

> four different hardware driver updates--note to reader: don't

> download and install more than one hardware driver at a time from

> Windows Update--since you'll have a hard time figuring out which one

> is the culprit) and restored my system to the way it was before.

>

> Other factors: I have several antivirus/spamware/firewalls running,

> and perhaps they somehow interfered with restoration, but Acronis

> should have given an error message that I could read (like "please

> disable all XYZ programs.."), but, since I was running in "Safe" mode

> in Windows, I doubt these programs were even loaded.

>

> In short, Acronis, at least for my system, and when trying to reload

> an image file to restore a HD from an external (USB) drive, doesn't

> work.

>

> I'm going back to Norton Ghost, which is free.

>

> Acronis does seem to work for simple backup of data files, as opposed

> to image files of an entire drive.

>

> Beware--when you need this program the most, it might not work.

>

> RL

>