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Try and Decide / Committing Changes - System Hangs

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Hello,

I ran Try and Decide on Acronis TI Home 2010, installed a program and wanted to apply changes to my system. I chose the "yes w/reboot" option. The system rebooted and worked all the way up to 97%, but then it wouldn't go any farther.

I have tried rebooting several times but this Acronis loader keeps starting up each time and says "starting committing", but it stays at 0% without any progress (with the little cursor moving back and forth across the screen).

How can I fix this problem and get Windows Vista running again? I'd greatly appreciate any help! Thanks.

Dominik

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If you have no option available, you will have to rewrite the MBR to boot into Vista directly.

Preferably, you should restore a disk and partition backup of your system, including the MBR+track0. This will make sure that your system is in a consistent state.

The best other alternative is to use the installation DVD and use the Windows system restore.

If this doesn't work, you can try to repair the startup of your computer using the Windows installation DVD. I don't know whether this will work, as the registry might have been edited as well...

NB> IMO, T&D is not very useful as you cannot separate the changes to the system from the changes to the content.

Thanks a lot, Pat, that's helpful.

What exactly do you mean by "If you have no option available"?

And in respect of the "best other alternative" (using the installation DVD / Windows system restore) you mention: could I thereby restore the system as it were before I used T&D? The reason why I'm asking is that my last full system backup is a few weeks old (grossly negligent not to make one before T&D, I now realize...), so I would lose quite a bit of data by loading from that one.

Thanks!

You could still do a backup of your system as is, restore the older system backup, and then move the content files back from the more recent backup... At least you revert back to a stable system state...

Wrt to using Windows system restore to go back to a date before your T&D start, it is simply another way to go back to a known system state that Windows validates. I think you will still have to first fix the MBR with the repair start up or with the bootrec /fixMBR command, so that any code that ATI has put in there for the special reboot gets erased. Then, you should be able to intercept the Windows boot with F8, and choose to restore the system.

Pat, thanks a lot for your insights and giving me ideas.

I got my system up and running again by loading Acronis from the Recovery Disc and restoring just the MBR from an older backup. Restart and... Windows booted!! Interestingly, even the programs I installed during T&D are available although "T&D committing" never finished....

Thanks again!