Black screen on attempting to uninstall Acronis 2010 to upgrade to 2018
Having bought the upgrade to Acronis 2018 on my new Dell PC I followed the instructions to uninstall Acronis 2010 using the Windows uninstaller. After a few minutes and with the uninstall progress window hanging at 5% to completion, the screen went black. When nothing happened for some hours, I powered off the PC. Several attempts at restarting produced the same black screen - no cursor, no text, nothing. A further attempt to start the PC the following morning was successful.
Looking for online advice I installed Revo Uninstaller and had a second attempt to uninstall Acronis 2010. Again the progress window stalled with 5% remaining. This time, however, I had an active window in the background. 12 hours later the progress window was still there and didn't respond to ticking the cancel box. I eventually shut down the PC and on restarting - the return of the black screen. 24 hours later, despite shutting down the PC and trying to reboot countless times and leaving it on overnight I still have nothing but a black screen - no cursor, no turning circle, no opportunity to select the operations system - just a black screen.
I put a ticket in to Acronis and received a reply suggesting amongst other things that I download Clean Up, select a Restore Point, send them screenshots and videos etc etc. I can't do any of these things. I have a black screen. There is nothing on it.
The Acronis support agent seems now to have abandoned me. He hasn't replied to my last three emails.
As you can imagine, I am far from happy, especially as this a new Dell PC, two weeks old and these problems have been caused merely by trying to upgrade Acronis.
Any help and advice welcome.


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