Boot disk fails
I have 4 licenses for TI10 home and never needed to use them. I have been doing full images weekly since 2006. Never had a need for them. I just tried to do a restore from an image I made for one of my computers that was after cleaning off the bloat ware and updating Windows. Saves the time of starting from scratch. Now the first time I try to restore an image to one, the boot disk won't work. It starts and when I select either safe or full it says loading or please wait, and never proceeds past the black screen with that message to wait at the top, i gave it two hours and then gave up.
Instead of restoring a fully loaded Acronis image I had to use the restore to factory option and lose all the settings and start from scratch.
I have read as many topics as I could find on these forums and it seems that you folks say to go to the account screen and select downloads to get a boot disk that supports newer hardware, and there is nothing there for me to download under 10. I really need to know I can use the images I have saved for my three computers running XP and vista.
How do I get the boot disk to work, or a newer version?
Thanks for responding thomasjk,
I already fixed it. I downloaded the trial version and burned a boot CD from it that works perfectly. Already restored the image just fine and came back here to post a disregeard when I saw you reply. It is pretty bad when the company alienates users like me with 4 registered copies of an older version and does not make it obvious that the hardware support may have changed even before I installed them or provide updated boot disk access to all registered users of older versions.
Then in every thread where this comes up it is a PM or an email as if it is a secret???
I almost ordered the family three pack but realized that 2 of my three computers will be Win 7 pro once I get them set up, and I can do images to my two 1 TB external drives with eSATA natively using Win 7's own free imaging and back up programs and boot disks. Already imaged one of them with Win 7 free programs, and now, after this morning's debacle with Acronis and a waste of half a day, I am going to do a test restore with the Win7 image with the boot disk from Win7 as well. But just in case, I will do an acronis image before I start testing the Win 7 free programs on the newest ones. I used Ghost until 2006, had to use it three times to do restores and it worked. Used Acronis since 2006 and only tried to do a restore this once, and almost didn't figure it out because of no clarity here.