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Can't Start Try & Decide

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Hello,

When I click on "Try & Decide", the option to start it is greyed out. Furthermore when I try to "Select partitions to protect with Try&Decide" all my drives are greyed out out too.

I'm using the latest build UPDATE 2.1 (Build 7133)

I'd be most grateful for any suggestions.

Thanks.

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First thing I'd check is to Go into My computer, Management, Services & Applications, Services, and see if the service for try and decide is disabled or not set to automatic. It should be set to automatic if you want to use T&D. Lots of us don't use it and disable the service. I don't recall which is the default setting nowadays.

Scott, thanks so much for replying.

I couldn't see Try and Decide in the window you mentioned. Only Non-stop Backup Service or something like that. You mentioned that you don't care to use Try and Decide. After reading that, I've read further in this forum and the general consensus is that Try and Decide is rubbish and nothing more than a world of pain. I therefore won't be using it either.

Thanks again for your kind help Scott.

Right. Agreed with the sentiment on Try and Decide. If you use it, make sure you have a disk and partition backup you are comfortable falling back to. THat's it. I do my own try and decide with an incremental backup before the trial. Much more reliable IMO.

Anyway, the service you were looking for is the Non-Stop Backup Service. It needs to run if you still want to run T&D.