Try and Decide vs. Windows Update
Will Try and Decide protect me from an update that fails to completely install?
A failed update leaves the disk locked, and ATI restore doesn't like that one bit. (The solution seems to be to use the good old format command.)


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I agree with @Pat L on this. Try&Decide was developed to deal with installation of applications, not the OS itself. There are risk that something could go very wrong if you use Try&Decide in this context.
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Thanks...I suspected as much.
It's a pain in the neck. The WinRE disk tells me to use a Linux recovery disk, but that doesn't have drivers for my IRST array.
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Jerry, if the target disk for your recovery / restore operation is locked, then try using the Tools > Add new disk option to initialise that target disk and leave it as unallocated space. The first action of any disk recovery is going to wipe the disk anyway, so nothing to lose in doing this and it should resolve the lock issue.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll save it for next time.
The last time I ran into this was over a year ago, so I don't remember exactly how I resolved it. What I do remember is that Acronis was of no help for the first several times they tried, and that I finally some to someone who gave me a quick and easy solution. I think it might have been the format command.
I have no inclination to test any of this out.
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