A sad story - crash and seemingly unreachable backups.
On December 6, 2009, my HP laptop was running with the Vista home premium or whatever it's called. My last across backup had been two weeks before, which just goes to ` a large part of this problem is mine.
On the next day, December 7, I installed Windows 7 on my laptop. I installed it over the existing programs, and I was happy to see that most things worked fine. But there was a lot that I had before that was not available now so I got out my Acronis to do a restore.
My most stupid action is next. I asked it to restore things to the same places they were before. When the restoration was ready, my computer was completely frozen, only telling me that there were incorrect paths to the registry..
I'll leave out the screaming and yelling and wailing and pulling hair out, and arrive at the place where I decided that the only thing to do is to do it complete back through her store to the Vista, and only reinstall Windows 7 when I have things where I hoped they would be. I was wrong it didn't work.
Ever since that time I've been gradually putting together things from before, but I wasn't able to get much help from my Acronis backups. I've tried both mounting the image and transferring files, but that hardly ever worked.
More recently, on a service call by a technician about a slightly related matter told me that my Acronis files from my Vista days would not work in Windows 7. That would explain a lot.
I thought it might help if I had it working Acronis program, so I downloaded a test copy, and since then I've gotten quite a few messages telling me my time is almost up on the test, or a couple days ago, that it has reached the end of the test. During that time I have tried several times to reach Acronis, which I finally was able to just recently.
It took me that long to figure out how to get through the questions and such that were there when I was trying to find them. That's part of the larger problem I have; I just do not understand all the language in the instructions on your program.
I have on hand a few discs which are either too be used after a crash. Several different dates are written on them, and offhand I think a couple were made after the crash. It is my hope that they might be useful in a partial rescue of all that data's sitting on another disk.
Another thing that I recently heard might have some bearing on this. It was something about backups on flash type external devices may be not working so well as hard disks to.
I realize that I should be concisely telling you a problem and asking for an answer. The whole condition is the problem, but I don't know how to put the question. I also fear that the answer you may give may be above my head in its difficulty.
I've done all I can think of doing, but I'm eager to do more if you show me how.
