Q: I do not mind Acronis True Imagage, but for some reason the restore function does not work on a particular computer of mine (the reboot if you boot from the Acronis recovery disc) 0.
Norton Ghost is good? I vaguely remember trying out a few years ago, it seemed a whole lot of little processes running in the background, which annoyed me.
Any other alternatives?
Best Answer: Before I get too detailed, NO, your registry does that for you automatically for the most part. "Memory locations" given in an error message are RAM not your hard disk.
1. MEMORY Check in BIOS during boot or just swap them…could even be a bad memory slot)
2. IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers Device manager would tell you or devices would register erratically, drop and maybe return…a warning about a BAD "SMART" drive test with press F key to continue indicates a bad drive
3. If another drive works okay then that's a nobrainer.
You say you have a good image saved and that is a good thing. It's either time to either replace a drive or proceed to the next thought.
Recall if you had virus issues lately. Clear CMOS (BIOS memory) by pulling the jumper as instructed by the maker or pull the battery (that watch battery in there, yes a LITHIUM WATCH battery) and pull all memory modules. That assures CMOS will completely clear. Reset your BIOS setting once you have all that back in.
If you do not use an antivirus program or do not update regularly (many will automatically and scan at least daily) DO SO! Set the OS to automatically update also. If your MBR master boot record–aka boot sector is corrupted you should just get a drive…even 250 MB SATA isn't that expensive anymore and I here of 1+ TB terabyte setups more often. This is the best time to get hard drives in my opinion. The first HDDs were around 10-100 MB and cost thousands of dollars in the Stone Age and even tiny portable drives are as cheap as Crackerjack these days.
Best of luck!
How to Hunt Ghosts
Re:Symantec Livestate Recovery is the BEST IMHO. For servers and desktops.
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Re:Originally posted by: guy
Is Norton Ghost any good? I vaguely remember trying it out a few years ago, it seemed to have lots of little processes running in the background, which annoyed me.
I'm rather familiar with Norton Ghost… and I've *never* experienced it putting processing into the background… it doesn't even need to be installed on the hard drive, just run it from a boot disk, and it doesn't modify/install the data on the partition that you're imaging. That is, unless they've drastically changed the way it works since the last time I used it (about a year ago).
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Re:OK, I'm trying out Paragon Drive Backup v7. So far so good. It doesn't install any sneaky services or processes in the background, which is nice.
The Ghostly Bear
Re:Originally posted by: guy
I don't mind Acronis True Imagage, but for some reason the restore function doesn't work on one particular computer of mine (it reboots when you boot from the acronis restore disc). One laptop I set up for work had a problem with Acronis, but only when I had a USB mouse plugged in. If I unplugged the mouse it worked fine.
Try again after unplugging any USB devices, but this is definitely machine-dependent since Acronis is happy with USB mice on other systems I've used, including a mouse attached through a hub.
The Autoimmunity Bible & Norton Protocol
Re:i switched from ghost (both corporate and home) to acronis…have you tried acronis' newest version? i think it is ver9?
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