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Try & Decide have malfunctioned on my machine

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Hi everyone,

My system is: Lenovo ThinkPad T400 and Windows 7 32-bit. Yesterday I tried the Try&Decide feature of ATI 2010 but it malfunctioned. Following is what I have done: First I turned the feature on and then I installed Solidworks 2009 (This software is crazily heavy so I just wanted to test whether my laptop could run it). I then performed some basic graphic tasks with Solidworks 2009. After making sure my machine can handle this beast, I decided to keep the changes, so I left Try&Decide environment with the option to 'commit' the changes to my system. I chose applying the changes via restarting to reduce the committing time (The total time I was in Try&Decide environment was about 1h30'). After restarting my machine, I simply could not access Solidworks anymore, and I did not receive any error message from ATI either. I even could not access the Solidworks installation folder in Program Files. I then restarted my computer again and this time it performed some disk checking actions. After the disk checking process, I did not see Solidworks anymore. Everything just turned back to themselves before the moment I turned on Try&Decide, like I have never run it (Thank God there's not been anything wrong with the rest of my system).

So is this a bug of ATI 2010? Has anyone experienced something like this?

Thanks for reading my topic.

Robe.

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Robe:

The truth is that T&D sounds so dangerous that I will never try it.

If it was me, I'd do a manual, full, image to an external hard drive and only then would I install the questionable software and play with it. At that time I could do my own T&D by restoring my entire partition.

The TI T&D sounds good and should work but...

Fungus

@Fungus: Yup, you're right. I was tempted by the Try&Decide's introduction words. They really impressed me. If ATI can do what it said, Acronis can even beat other professional products in the field like Deep Freeze and Shadow Defender. Sadly it can't, at least in my circumstance ...

There are some people on this forum that can give you much better advice than I can, stay tuned.

Fungus

To the OP.

How much RAM and free disk space do you have on the laptop?

Are you able to look inside the T&D folder (you might not be able to do this with Wndows Explorer), if you are, is there a large file still sitting there?

Hi bodgy,

My laptop has 3GB of RAM, and partition C (which I used to install Windows 7) has 100GB of total space (15GB used and 85GB free). From the ATI's main window, I saw that ATI had used 7GB of the 85GB free space for the Try & Decide environment.

Is there anything wrong with my system's configuration?