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Hi,

Using Acronis True Image Home 2011 on Win XP Pro Media Center Edition SP3 and Raid 1

I am nearly ready for the recovery of my system, but have 3 questions before I start:

1. I always make my backups on one of my internal data drive and a reserve copy on an external USB HDD. I know that it is better to disconnect the second HDD from the Raid, but I am not sure if I also have to disconnect my 2 additional HDDs (non Raid, just data on there) or not.

2. IF I HAVE to disconnect all additional HDDs, I don't have the "original image" but only the reserve copy. Can I use that image for the recovery?

3. I have created a Boot CD today. Is it better to start with the Boot CD or start the system and then start Acronis to recover? I have some applications starting with startup (Avast!, PGP, WinPatrol, Advanced Direct Remailer).

Please give me an advise. I have to recover because with an update of Avast! my system is not longer stable and also brings blue screens since July 2, and crashes either some minutes after booting or some hours later - depends on if I am "working" or just getting mails and surfing.

Thank you very much in advance.
Gerda

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My questions have been answered in a support chat.
Recovery does not work, so I wait for the new PC.
Thanks!

Gerda,

I am curious to see the answers you received. Can you share them with us?

Pat L wrote:

I am curious to see the answers you received. Can you share them with us?

The answers were:
1. I need not unplug the 3 HDDs, the 2nd Raid disk will be no problem
2. I can use the reserve image, it is the same as the "original"
3. I shall do the recovery with the boot CD because recommended by Acronis.

I failed with the boot CD: First it was confusing to see that all the hard drives and CD drives have other letters than how I see them in Windows Explorer - except C. Then I finally found the drive with the image I wanted to use. I proceeded and when I said to which drive it shall be recovered (C) I could read there that only 11.4 MB free space remain. I know that I have 46,9 GB free space on that drive. I gave up.
I think the last time I made a recovery I did it within Windows/Acronis.

Now I will have to find out why the system is not stable, why I constantly get the message "not enough system resources" or a blue screen since July 2. I thought that with a recovery back to 27 July things would be solved because at that time there was no system change by doing updates. I don't dare to make that recovery when it says I have no more free space on C. Or I try while system is running.

Gerda,
Not sure this will help to make the drives letters less confusing when viewed in the CD but include the drive letter as part of the volume name such as
Win7-C
Data_D
Then when doing a recovery, do not use drive letters--just match the volume names.

GroverH wrote:

Gerda,
Not sure this will help to make the drives letters less confusing when viewed in the CD but include the drive letter as part of the volume name such as
Win7-C
Data_D
Then when doing a recovery, do not use drive letters--just match the volume names.

Thanks for that hint but I don't dare to make a recovery because of that message about space after recovery.

Good night
Gerda