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ADD11 won't start - can't contact localhost

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I am not having much luck with ADD11 on Win 7

I have installed version 11.0.216 and when I try to start up it gets stuck for along time on
the opening screen 'contacting localhost' but then error message appears
Code 5,242,881 Module C:\ProgramFiles\Acronis\DiskDirector\mmsBundle.dll ... an invalid index has been specified.

I tried the online chat, who recommended the usual - uninstall and reinstall all acronis products.
(Iam using alongside True Image Home v 13.0.7046 with plus pack)

After reboots etc... still the same error.

I do have IIS7 installed as a webserver for website development, which of course is also 'localhost' so I
tried stopping that server, but it did not make any difference to the outcome.

Can someone help?

Thanks

Clive

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Hello Clive,

Welcome to our forum and thank you for posting. I will definitely assist you with this issue.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience. I can recommend the following solution posted in this article.

In case you have a Broadcom network card, please try updating its drivers to the latest version.

If nothing helps, please ask the support engineer working on your case to escalate the case to our Expert team and send us this report please.

I am confident that we can get this fixed.

Please let know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

I've got this same problem as Clive, and did not have it with DD10. Does DD11 have a different system interface or did something in my system get clobbered since the upgrade? (I do not have Broadcom.)
Garret

BTW, here is the error I'm getting:
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Error
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Cannot connect to 'localhost'.
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Details
Code: 5,242,881(0x500001)
Module: C:\Program Files\Acronis\DiskDirector\mmsBundle.dll
Message: An invalid index has been specified.

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Hello Garret,

Thank you for posting and welcome to the forum. I will definitely assist you with this issue.

This problem has to do with the program's trying to access the information about network interfaces on the machine by means of the WMI. If the WMI is broken or corrupt there will be issues. Acronis Disk Director 10 did not have this problem because it was developed differently.

We recently released a KB article that deals with this problem from Acronis Disk Director 11 Home perspective. If you do not have a BROADCOM network card, something else is causing this issue, you can try additional solutions from the same article.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Yes, I'd read that knowledge base article, downloaded and ran the WMI diagnostic, and have to say I sure would like my money back on this purchase! The suggestions within the WMI diagnostic log file would take hours to go through with no guarantee that the problem would be solved and/or other problems not created... and if I rebuild the WMI, it's likely other applications won't correctly work.

How about an acronis tool to actually go through the wmi and fix what needs to be fixed?

I only bought the upgrade to be able to support my sister who has a Win7 machine... I wanted to be able to remotely walk her through the interface. Otherwise, DD10 worked just fine for me on WinXP, which is what I'm running.

Garret,

Please accept my apologies for the inconvenience.

I really appreciate your feedback regarding this issue and I will forward it to our Development team so that we can implement it.

If you are having issues repairing the WMI, you are more then welcome to contact our Support team and we will do this for you.

As a workaround, for any disk operations you can use the standalone version of our software, you can download it from your Acronis web-account in ISO format and burn to any CD/DVD.

Let me know if there is anything else I can assist you with.

Thank you.

Thanks. I got the standalone version to work, so that's a start.

Do you recommend I call, email, or chat with support to work to resolve my WMI repair issue?
Thanks,
Garret

Hello Garret,

Thank you for replying.

I am glad that the workaround is working for now.

Usually a phone or a chat session is quicker because an engineer can connect to your machine remotely and perform all the operations.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Hi Anton,
however, I performed all the hints that were given in the knowledge base and the forums. Reinstalled DD11 several times, reconstructed the WMI, cleaned the registry, etc. Unfortunately my DD11 comes still up with this terrible message. The only way for me is too use the bootable media too.

Is there any chance to get this failure out, realy?

Do you have any further idea?

Thank you in advance
Nico

Hello Nico,

Thank you for your message. I will do my best to assist you.

I am very sorry for the inconvenience, but if the KB article did not resolve the issue, then the best way to proceed would be to contact our Support team so that we can investigate and resolve it.

Please include the following report.

If you have additional questions, please let me know.

Thank you.

Well, I contacted support via live chat, and that got me no where. The agent basically read the kb articles, just as I had done, and ultimately told me to rebuild WMI. Since I don't have a slip-streamed SP3 WinXP Pro disk, I don't think I even want to try to go down that path.

I've wasted enough time on this piece of junk. Frankly, I'm pulling it and going back to DD10. If I need to boot on a DD11 disk for Windows7 at least I can do that...

Sorry I spent the $$ AND the time.

OK, I had to give it another shot, so I followed the article mentioned in one of the acronis kb entries, http://windowsxp.mvps.org/repairwmi.htm, and rebuilt the WMI repository. (I didn't do the complete version requiring the slip-streamed SP3 WinXP Pro disk.) After rebuilt, I noticed that windows firewall detection had lost track of Norton Internet Security 2010 providing the virus protection, so I had to uninstall and reinstall it. Now ADD11 would start, so I had made progress. So I went to make an image of where I was with Acronis True Image Home 2010, and found that ADD11 had broken it... it would no longer start.

To be sure that this is what broke it, I booted off a ATI2010 recovery disk, restored to before ADD11 was installed, and indeed ATI2010 again worked. So now I just upgraded ADD10 to ADD11, and indeed, it broke ATI2010. Attached is a word doc with the screen shots for this failure... in the one case, it had me restart windows until I was blue in the face, only to again tell me I needed to restart because it had detected an older version of ATI.

Wow, was this program ever tested???!!! Tested with WinXP???!!! Tested with other Acronis products???!!!! This this is garbage, frankly.

It's gone, and I'll live with ADD10.

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Garret,

I can tell you that the beta version of DD11 and TI2010 played nicely together, though that doesn't mean something wasn't changed in the release version, however, I wonder if there isn't something in the fact you mention you use Nortons (OK I admit it I have a bias against Nortons products post 2000), it is possible that there is a conflict.

ADD11 works slightly differently to DD10, as it now uses the 'big boys' method of contacting local host to perform it's tasks. Did you attempt a repair install of TIH2010 whilst Nortons was looking the other way? This might have been all that you needed to do, before twiddling with Nortons. I can't test the Nortons problem itself as I use BitDefender or ESS.

Thanks for your reply, Colin. If I get a chance, I'll try your suggestion of repairing ATI2010 but haven't done so yet. I spent a good bit of time on this already, though, so got so frustrated I didn't want to see ADD11 again (except as a boot disk if necessary).

As far as Norton, I used to feel the same way you do until I saw reviews of NIS2009 several years ago. It's now very efficient, uses minimal memory and realtime, and actually works in the background mostly when the machine is idle. The reviews have been most positive for that and its ability to catch stuff. So I've used NIS 2009 and now NIS 2010 and feel it's a good product.
Thanks,
Garret

Actually, I just found another forum entry with reference to this kb article to fix the ATI 2010 failure to start...
http://kb.acronis.com/content/11617. I have not yet tried this myself, but probably will at some point.

Hello Garret

This issue has been fixed in ADD11 Home Update 1 which is coming soon.

Thank you for patience.