ADM never detected HD failure of upgraded 160GB HD, works on initial install of old 60GB OEM HD, then error messages continually
I purchased Acronis True Image 2011 in January of 2011, because my 60GB OEM HD was maxed out. I made a disk image of the 60GB OEM HD, to a Western Digital 160GB HD and installed it. Perfect results.
After booting with the WD 160GB HD, I downloaded and had Acronis Drive Monitor and set it to start up every time I booted my computer. Never had any issues reported by ADM on the WD 160GB drive installed 1-28-11.
On July 28, 2011 [6 monhs to the day of first install], when I tried to start the WD 160GB drive, I received a boot error message. I don't recall it, exactly but in essence, it didn't boot or recognize the 160GB WD HD. Even in safe mode.
I re-installed the old 60GB OEM Hitachi. It boots up every time, but I'm still at the limit of its capacity. My computer still recognized the 1-28-11 installed 160GB WD HD, as a USB device. It just won't boot with that as my C drive.
I have installed and uninstalled ADM to the 60GB OEM HD three times now, since 7-28-11 when the 160GB WD HD failed to boot. Upon first install, it reads my 60GB OEM HD as running perfectly, then it begins to open up a pop-up about an error, after about 12 hours of runtime. I have submitted the error every time [at least 20x], with no response from Acronis. The error pop-up increases in frequency, to the point it happens and I report, 3 times an hour, before I get frustrated and uninstall ADM.
This is the Error signature:
szAppName : adm.exe szAppVer : 1.0.0.566 szModName : ntdll.dll
szModVer : 5.1.2600.6055 offset : 0001a9c0
This is the Error report Contents:
C:\DOCUME~1\JOHNEL~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER20bd.dir00\adm.exe.mdmp
C:\DOCUME~1\JOHNEL~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER20bd.dir00\appcompat.txt
These are fresh, I just copied and pasted them from the error message as I was creating this forum question.
ADM currently reports:
Volumes: C: Capacity 60.01GB Health 100%
Volumes: F: Capacity 250.06GB Health 100% [EXT Back-up Drive]
S.M.A.R.T. parameters show everything OK for both C and F drives.
But I still get the pop-up error message repeatedly, when ADM is not open and no EXT drive is mounted.
Until I can copy over the data from the 1-28-11, 160GB WD hard drive to my Hitachi back up drive, and return the WD 160GB HD for replacement, I am concerned that ADM installs and works fine for a few hours, then begins to show the pop-up with increasing frequency, until I get frustrated and uninstall ADM.
Any thoughts on:
Why the pop-up only happened witht he OEM 6GB HD? Never happened on the 1-28-11 160GB HD.
Why ADM never sensed an issue with the 1-28-11 install of the 160GB WD HD, yet on 6-28-11, it failed to boot?
I can access any file on the 160GB WD HD, any time I plug it in via USB, but every time [5 attempts since 6-28-11] I install it as the laptop's HD, I get the same boot error that first made me re-install the 60GB OEM HD, on 6-28-11.
John Elert

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