Backup with rescue CD overheats my laptop
I usually prefer to backup with a rescue CD because I figure that's what I would use to restore a HD, plus I am not sure if backing up in Windows could access files the system uses at the moment. This worked fine for me till I backed up with a Hotfixed Build 6131 rescue CD. This backup heated up my laptop so bad that in less than 10 minutes it shot down. I don't have such overheating problem when I back up in Windows or with rescue CD-s from earlier builds. It appears that the Linux version used for the latest builds might be the culprit but only the Acronis developers could figure this out for sure. In any case, I am now afraid to use the rescue CD till this heat issue is solved. I hope I'll not have to use it for restore till then.
OK, but what if I have to restore once with the rescue CD because the old HD got corrupted? The overheating might still be an issue then, right?
On my laptop (Lenovo W700) I normally use the ATI windows version but I have used the CD and to my knowledge there was no heat issue. For sure if your boot drive fails it will be necessary to use the CD. I'm totally lost as to why you have the heat issue. BTW I use the 6131 release with my laptop.
Try downloading the 6154 release and see if it creates the same issue for you. Earlier today I downloaded it but have not installed on any of my systems at this time (too many other hot issues).
What laptop do you have? Do you have a second HD that you can use as a test and attempt a restore? Or attempt to clone your drive.
Possibly there is some weird HD issue that either has just occurred or it has been brought to the surface with the 6131 release. Just this past week my wife's laptop (Sony Vaio) experienced a problem with the ATI windows backup, it failed to create a backup. I've discovered it was the drive and replaced it now I'm testing the drive in my hard drive test system. I used the Seagate DOS tools, it sees an issue, attempts a repair, claims it was resolved but this is not true. I've also run SpinRite (level 4), it sees the issue but so far it has not been able to move the data to a new sector and mark the bad section bad. SpinRite support suggest running multiple times and possible SpinRite will resolve the issue. I'm just interested in seeing if any of my software can create a solution (I'm getting very close to getting a replacement from Seagate because I'm tired of messing with the drive and I have much higher priority things to work on). I've also run Hard Disk Sentinel (at the highest level) but it reported the disk as good. I'm now again running the Seagate tools. Like I said I'm just trying to see if my software will fix the issue.
Do you have any heat issues with the ATI windows backup?
I have an HP Pavilion series notebook with AND Turion 64 X2 CPU with NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 GPU. This NVIDIA chip is known to run pretty hot in normal circumstances and I even had to fix its heat sink to run cooler. It's been running fine since and I had no problems with prior versions of ATI, either Windows or Rescue CD versions. Just this newone, and only the rescue CD. I have to assume that the developers started using a new version of Linux for it that makes the CPU or GPU work much harder than any of the previous versions. I repeat: this is only an issue with the Rescue CD version. The Windows install works fine, thoug I've noticed that during the first 5-10 minutes even the Windows version runs hotter than the rest of the time. But is was still OK. I am using a utility that can measure the temps of CPU, GPU and the motherboard overall.
I'll try to update to the latest ATI version in both Windows and ISO image and see if the overheating is still there.