Insufficient Space on HDD to Load True Image Home 2012
I have a 70GB hard drive with appx 724 mb of free space available. When installing the application I get a message that says installation failed due to insuffient space. I see that the app is appx 223 mb in size. Can someone assist me on why this install is failing? Thanks, Dave B.
Prob is you need more space. What you are citing as the app size is actually the size of the installer, not the installed program. You need more space for the unpacked files, temp files, registry backups etc. made while the installations is going on, abd so forth.
TEchnically, according to Acronis, the porgram needs 512 MB of space or 1GB is you use the nonstop backup feature. However, once your OS is up and running, the sytem and other processes could be using up some of the otherwise free space with temp files.
70 GB hard drive with only 724 MB is not good. Windows needs more free space than that to operate well. With so little free space, performance will suffer.
You should spend some time seeing what stuff you no longer need, and can delete, and uninstall any programs that you don't use. Also uninstall any Windows components that you don't use, e.g. games, etc.
Or, alternatively, get a bigger disk -- hdisks are dirt cheap. You could download the iso for a bootCD for your version of ati, burn it to CD and run ati from there to make a full backup of you hdisk, the restore it to a larger hdisk (check out the user guide for details)
Agreed, a bigger HD is an even better idea. :)
Thanks to ALL for your response. I am new to this process and ask that you provide more assistance please. I already deleted as many programs as I can and still have minimal space. I tried to see the User manual online & search on "ISO" but it won't allow me due to space restrictions. I did print off the User Guide to my work location off-site. Can you tell me the specific section/ref numbers I should be looking at so I can try and continue this? Thanks in advance for any help ! Dave B.
P.S. - addt'l info : I have a 1TB external portable drive to use. I also have my new laptop which has 500GB of space.
David,
Go your Acronis.com user account, register your serial number. Then you can access the download area where you can find the bootable ISO. You can do this on any computer as teh bootable ISO or the recovery CD is computer agnostic.
Good evening...I downloaded the ATI Home 2012 (but not the Plus Pack) to a CD-R. In the Properties it shows - Type: File Folder, Size: 98.1mb, Contains: 23 files, Attributes: Read-Only. The name of the Folder is "Recovery Manager". Is this now a bootable CD? I ask this because section 8.2.1 of the User Guide states to use a CD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW disk. Excuse my ignorance but I'm lost as to the next steps. Please advise, txs Dave B.
In Windows 7, you would right-click the ISO and choose "Burn disc image". Otherwise, if you just copy the file to the CD-R it will not be bootable.
It does sound as though you may have done it properly. Try booting from it, assuming your BIOS is set to allow boot from CD.
I was able to boot from the CD but when it opened there are some screens that are missing, e.g. the Get Started tab. I see the screen that allows me to select "Disk B/up - Total Computer" (which is what I want to do), and Data B/up - Files & Folders". I don't see the exact screens as in the User Guide but I selected the first option and requested the "C" Drive be backed up to "E" which is my 1TB external HDD. It then stated that there would be 3 operations. It then asked me to insert disk media. I don't understand why it would ask me for a blank disk when I want to move all info from directly from one HDD on the failing machine to an external HDD. I've just spent 4-5 hrs on downloading the ISO info onto a disk and trying to move data with no success. This is extremely frustrating and I'm running out of time since my daughter just gave birth in Florida and we're scheduled to leave in a few days to visit there to help out. Is there some way that you or one of the other respondents to these e-mails can get with me on the phone to walk me through this process? My e-mail is boydboyd01@msn.com and if someone can provide their telephone number and the best time to talk I would be more than happy to initiate the call. Thanks again, Dave B.
David,
As you are directing the image to a hard drive you shouldn't be seeing a 'blank disk' message. I assume the external hard drive is formatted? If it appears as a drive letter in Windows and you don't get an error message when you use Windows Explorer the drive is formatted.
The CD displays TIH using the original type GUI, partly because it is not running in Windows but Linux, as you've found it looks different and doesn't offer exactly the same options. It does offer all you need to make and recover an image though.
You've brought up a point, there is no information about making images using the recovery CD in the help file. We\ll have to work backwards if that doesn't confuse anyone.
The drive letters shown in the CD version may not be the same as those you are used to in Windows. The first thing I suggest you do is whilst in Windows is to give your disks and partitions (if more than one of those on your system) names. In Windows speak they are called labels. Double click on 'Computer' on your desktop (in Windows), and where your C: partition is listed, right click and select 'rename' type in any name that takes your fancy. If you have more than one partition do this for all the partitions that are on your internal disk. These anmes will appear the same when using the recovery CD. This ensures you know which is which in the case where Linux is enumerating the drive letters differently.
Below is what my system looks like - mine takes in 3 disks, but you'll get the idea.
If your web browser uses tabs, open a new window at the following link http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ATIH2012/index.html#13903… .
The page should be showing the screen you see when you boot into the recovery CD.
Just looking at the first screenshot, click on the My Disks option. From there you will see the disks and partitions that TIH has found. Be aware it will also show your external drive.
Tick the drive/partition that says DISK 1
Click the 'Next' button and find your external drive and give the image you are about to make a name in the text box.
Click 'Next' again and you should see a list of what is about to happen - if you only have one internal disk you should just see this listed (at most there should only be two operations listed), click proceed and your disk should be imaged to your external drive.
As far as your actual drive being almost full, things to check at a later date - The size of the recycle bin this is probably at a default size which is often quite substantial, this can be changed, if you PM me which OS you are using, I can take you through how to change it.
Your pagefile may also be very large and might be a candidate for changing its size.
It is also more than likely that your system restore files are taking up way too much space and your 'temp' folder needs clearing out (Windows should clear this but it rarely does it very well). There are other areas where space could be recovered from.
