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Disk Director 11 Home: Error "Cannot connect to 'local host'" Code: 5,242,881(0x0500001)

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After installation, Disk Director 11 Home will not load. Instead it stops and an error popup window shows up and indicating the following:
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Error
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Cannot connect to 'localhost'.
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Details
Code: 5,242,881(0x500001)
Module: C:\Program Files\Acronis\DiskDirector\mmsBundle.dll
Message: An invalid index has been specified.
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I have downloaded and run the AcronisInfo file executable. The generated zip file is attached for review.
Under Services I only find the Acronis OS Selector activator running.

I have reinstalled the product several times. Am I missing something here? Please let me know if there is a solution. Thanks!

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acronisinfo_1.zip 223.24 KB
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I have found what appears to be a solution:
KB 4766 was very helpful. My laptop has a Broadcom NIC and associated software. I updated the NIC driver and removed the Broadcom Advanced Control Suite (BACS) or Broadcom ASF Management Applications. Now I can run DD11.

Apparently NFA is needed. Thanks!

Eric,

What is NFA?

I have the same local host problem on a laptop running windows 7 pro 64bit. The machine does not run broadcom software or use a broadcom device. I have no clue what is causing this. Reinstallation of the program does not seem to help. Anyone have any further ideas? So far, tech support has yet to get back to me on my official inquiry.

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Same here only I seem to have made it worse. I did a uninstall and DiskDirector was removed but not OSS. I saw some comments somewhere about deactivating OSS to remove it. So I tried that. Unfortunately I seemed to have deactivated one of the partitions. I can't tell whether it's the NTFS Windows partition or the Dell Fat32 partition. The end result is when the computer boots, it's Dell 830 laptop, it goes in to a memory test and diagnostics GUI. When I exit the GUI the system reboots and goes right back into the test GUI, exiting the GUI it reboots and goes right back into the test GUI, etc, etc. Unless there's a way to reactivate the partition I'll need to rebuild my MBR. If that fails It's get a new hard drive and hopefully copy everything over to it. sheesh!

Ah well it seems I was a bit too hasty again. I was able to boot from the purchased CD and it goes into online recovery mode. I think that's correct. Anyway I was able to reactivate the windows NTFS partition and now it seems to be booting normally now. Whew!!!!
AND I went into the Acronis folder and renamed the OSS folder and everything in it. And guess what OSS doesn't run at startup. I'll still pursue a ticket from the help folks on how to completely uninstall all of this software. I get the exact same error as noted in this thread. But disabling the Broadcom nic/WiFi card IS NOT an acceptable solution. I will also see about getting my money back from the store where I bought it. It's just too buggy for my taste.

I know this post is a few months old, but I had this same problem and just solved it on my computer today. I did not have broadcom control software installed. I have a dell latitude with intel PROset wireless software installed. I had the proset services disabled because I wanted windows to manage my wireless connection and that prevented DD11 from running. I started the proset services and DD11 opened with no problems. I hope this will help someone else with this problem so I'm not wasting my time, I registered just to post this.

Followup to my last reply:

I have had to turn off both of my network (wireless and wired) adapters to get DD11 to work. There must be a change made in the programming of DD11 so that users will not have to turn off network access to run DD11 and then turn it back on afterwards.

Please, someone from Acronis read these replies and realize that the number of people have looked at this thread must indicate a significant problem.

J Parke Allen,

This is your first post, (under this name anyway) so what was your last reply that you are following up?

Could you give more details about your network so there is more to go on?

Are you using a Dell PC?

What brand or chipset do the adapters use?

What symptons were your seeing?

I have the same problem !!!

As an expert computer engineer, I cannot conceive the brilliance of a "rudimentary" disk partitioning product,
with a GUI that fails to load due to incompatible network settings. This is the HOME version, networking
is not required. If your "adolescent" programmers must recycle code from the network SERVER version to
implement the HOME product using some sort of a client/server model onto the local host,

one would tend to think that they would implement some sort of a pipe/short-circuit to make sure that the HOME
version still WORKS, regardless of the network status.

If the acronym KISS means nothing to you than ACRONIS must be the ultimate career for you.
The very thought that your software has ever touched my machine now scares the hell out of me.

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ohsix wrote:

I know this post is a few months old, but I had this same problem and just solved it on my computer today. I did not have broadcom control software installed. I have a dell latitude with intel PROset wireless software installed. I had the proset services disabled because I wanted windows to manage my wireless connection and that prevented DD11 from running. I started the proset services and DD11 opened with no problems. I hope this will help someone else with this problem so I'm not wasting my time, I registered just to post this.

I had the same local host problem on a Dell XPS L701X running windows 7 pro 64bit. The notebook does not run broadcom software or use a broadcom device, but I had PROset wireless disabled. I just enabled it and DD11 started with no problems!

Thank you so much for your help!!!