About to risk what's left
I just ran that Reimage program and it totally messed up my whole computer. I've been on this machine sinec 8-26 trying to find a way to fix some of the things that have gone wrong and it looks like my options have about dried up. I'm about to see if Acronis was the answer. I received a set of very simple looking instructions about running this way back in 2008.
Is there anything special or new that's come to light that I should know about before I try to re-establish my machine the way it was on my last backup? If anything, please let me know asap.
Thanks and please wish me good luck!

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Nikilet,
I'm confused! When you say 'the reimaging program' are you referring to TI v11 or anothe rprogram altogether?
If TI what problem are you having?
You need to ensure that your rescue disk for whichever version of TI you are using can boot your system and see all your drives.
Is the image you wish to restore on an external drive?
Validate the image before attempting anything.
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Sorry ... I was talking about Reimage, the program that scans your computer and then repairs it, replacing corrupt or missing system files, etc. I think that is what messed up my computer -- that and/or the 57 Windows Updates that came in the same day and which included an update to my NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE. Actually, my computer is very responsive, running very well. However, I can not boot into Safe Mode and I can not create a manual restore point.
So, I think I'm going to have to use Acronis to try and get things right again. I did make the CD in the beginning to boot from. But as long as my PC boots, I read something online that I don't have to use that CD, that I can just boot my computer, open Acronis and select the recovery option. Is this correct, and if so, what about all the programs running in the background then?
If you could let me know about this I would really appreciate it because I have "almost" exhausted other options. I have done my backups to an external hard drive.
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Nikilet,
It is very important that you try the TI rescue CD, as even if you begin a restore from the Windows based TI, it will reboot into a Linux environment. The CD uses the Linox environment and because of this sometimes has a problem recognising all hardware.
You need to know that the Linux version works even if you start off in Windows, no point starting and then find it fails and ending up in a worse mess than you started with.
If the CD won't boot or see all your harddrives then that can often be sorted out.
Don't forget, if you hard drive fails, you would need to use the CD to restore your system to a new drive.
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Thank you very much for this information. I do have one more question. My Dell PC has an option in the Advanced Boot options to reinstall Windows to factory condition. If I use Acronis I think it said I will be asked to delete everything on this drive that's going to be restored. Does this mean that this Dell Factory Reinstall option will be forever erased and gone so if Acronis recovery doesn't work I'll be in really bad shape?
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If you have made a complete disk image (that is you ticked the disk number not individual partitions) then the hidden Dell partition should be in your image.
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When I have done backups there are three boxes, OS (C) -- Recovery (D) -- FAT 16. I have always checked all three and I see the box above those now that says Disk 1. I just tried it and by checking all three a check automatically appears in that Disk 1 box so I should be ok, right?
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Nikilet,
The backup you describe (all partitions & disk checked) is a complete disk backup because it includes all the partitions shown. This type backup is the best type to have because nothing is omitted. With this type backup, you can restore any or all partitions--your choice.
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Is there anywhere I can go to see pictures of the boxes I will encounter as I do this recovery?
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If you click on Grover's True Image Guides in the left column above on this page and scroll down to 7A you will find a basic guide to backup and restore.
The guide may not show screen shots of your version of TI but the principle is the same
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