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Acronis 10 Success story

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Hello all

I'm new to this product and, having read so many tales of woe throughout the various forums, I confess I thought maybe I'd bought the wrong product.

I first want to pass on my thanks to Grover (and the others who contributed) for his excellent simplifications of the steps to backup and recover as I was overwhelmed by the TI user manual.

I wanted to have a hard drive that I could plug in if/when my current system gets corrupted or crashes. To accomodate this need I bought a new HD of slightly smaller size (250Gb vs 300) onto which I wanted to transfer my current system (Vista Home Premium) and all my data. After burning my recovery CD I re-booted and ran under its control and made a system backup onto an external USB drive I already had.

I then unplugged the power and SATA cables from my system drive and plugged them into my brand new drive (after initialization and formatting ... a story in itself!). Started the system up under recovery disk again and asked for full recovery of the system. One hour later I removed the recovery CD, shut the computer down and restarted under my brand new hard drive. I can't tell you how great it was to see my desktop re-appear and everything else still up and running.

I will now do occasional differential backups to my full backup on the external drive and hopefully keep things fairly current. I guess I'll start reading some of the more obscure parts of the manual to see if there's anything else I might want to do.

Thanks again to all those who sifted through all the myriad of ways to do this and pared it down to a nice simplified procedure.

Frank

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Frank,
It's always nice when someone takes the time to tell us of their successes.

Many more have successes but sad to say, we never hear of those successes--but we certainly hear when things go wrong.

The more you use TrueImage the more comfortable you will become with its functions. Thank you!

As Firefox likes to say "Well, this is embarrasing".

Everything went so well last week and I'm feeling happy that I now have a bootable hard drive stored away for that proverbial rainy day. Well, this morning it was "raining" on my system and it wouldn't come up. It just hung with the statement "Verifying DMA boot record".

Tried several starts but no go. Finally swapped the power and SATA cables from my system drive onto the spare and she came right back up! Thank you again Acronis.

My question now is how much/how little of the "damaged" drive should I try to recover? Is it likely to be just the MBR and, if so, can I recover just that?

Appreciate any help or advice on this.

Frank

To restore track0/mbr do the following.

Boot from the Rescue CD.
Choose Recovery and select any of your more recent backups.
Checkmark the Track0/mbr option and continue
On the destination screen, select the disk which is giving your problems
Proceed with the restore of only track0/mbr
Shutdown and disconnect any other drive.
Reboot with only the problem drive attached.
Reattach the others later.
Suggest you also check the drive for disk errors.
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If that does not solve your problem, then restore the entire system C drive.

Thanks Grover.

I kind of thought that was the right procedure but wanted to check first.

Just finished the steps and the system is back again!!

I am SO-O-O glad I had this backup and a recovery disk. Without it I was looking at a multi-day job to get back to where I am in only 5 minutes!

Now ... any suggestions as to what might have corrupted that record?

I'm about to run CHKDSK.

Thanks again

Frank

The disk report will of corrections made can be found in the events listing under Applications as a WinLogon listing.
Note the time you run it so the event is easier to find. Start it and let it run all night.

Run
%SystemRoot%\system32\eventvwr.msc /s

run
chkdsk X: /r
x=drive letter of drive being checked