Hibernation Mode damaging other partitions when Trueimage is installed
Hi,
I have a laptop computer provided by my company that has two Windows XP installations on it. When starting up and booting, I chose the installation via the GRUB bootloader.
When chosing one XP installation in GRUB, GRUB is hiding the partition of the other XP installation and vice versa, so there is no drive letter assigned to those hidden partitions. All partitions are NTFS.
Now I noticed the following:
Trueimage 2010 is installed on the second Windows XP installation. When I use the hibernation mode of Windows XP on that second installation, it is damaging the file system of the first installation. This leads to the automatic start of CHKDSK when booting the first installation of Windows XP.
It took me a long time to find out what is happening. I used Sysinternals-Tools such as Process Monitor and Disk Monitor to check which process is writing to the (hidden!) partitions of the first Windows XP partition. It is the system process. It is writing 4 kB to the path \Device\HarddiskVolume1\$Logfile (while HarddiskVolume1 is the hidden first Windows XP installation) - but it shouldn't do that because it is damaging the file system of the hidden partition.
Since I could not determine which drivers are causing the system process to write to the hidden partitions (or better: to the hidden volumes), I checked all other software on the second Windows XP partition, uninstalled the Antivirus-Software and everything which could possibly interfere with the file system of the hidden partition and tried hibernation mode after each uninstall.
Only after uninstalling Trueimage 2010, it didn't show that effect any longer. After re-installing Trueimage 2010, I had the same problems again. So the effect is related to Trueimage 2010.
Is there any way to prevent Trueimage 2010 from writing to hidden partitions when entering hibernation mode in Windows XP?

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