Acronis Problem

[raro]

yesterday my server's HDD died a sudden death. Win XP pro.

Luckily I made an Acronis image after the fresh install so I could restore it on a new HDD.

It just doesn't work! The restored image does not boot properly, when you expect the windows logo it shows the blue screen. Retried again and again with the restore, only blue screen.

Image was made with Acronis 9.0, restore with 11.0

Any advise?

[Guest Reimar]

yesterday my server's HDD died a sudden death. Win XP pro.

Luckily I made an Acronis image after the fresh install so I could restore it on a new HDD.

It just doesn't work! The restored image does not boot properly, when you expect the windows logo it shows the blue screen. Retried again and again with the restore, only blue screen.

Image was made with Acronis 9.0, restore with 11.0

Any advise?

raro:

you need to use the same version for restore as you create the image!

I suggest to use Drive Image for th future to make an Recovery set instead of an Image!

[raro]

yesterday my server's HDD died a sudden death. Win XP pro.

Luckily I made an Acronis image after the fresh install so I could restore it on a new HDD.

It just doesn't work! The restored image does not boot properly, when you expect the windows logo it shows the blue screen. Retried again and again with the restore, only blue screen.

Image was made with Acronis 9.0, restore with 11.0

Any advise?

raro:

you need to use the same version for restore as you create the image!

I suggest to use Drive Image for th future to make an Recovery set instead of an Image!

now THAT is very interesting...what's the point in developing newer versions?

I opted for the image because I used to do similar recveries in the past and they all worked very well. At the moment I process an image of the kaputt disk...and lots of sectors are unreadable...wishme luck, I'll keep you posted...

[Naam]

why not wasting a few additional minutes and clone the entire disk? my standard procedure at least three times a week.

[raro]

tried this but the new HDD is smaller (160 vs 240 GB) and Acronis cannot clone the disk, even when I opt for the manual method....

[Guest Reimar]

tried this but the new HDD is smaller (160 vs 240 GB) and Acronis cannot clone the disk, even when I opt for the manual method....

That's right, you can clone to a bigger one but not to an smaller HDD! May you need to buy a new one 240 or even bigger!

[raro]

yeah...the thing is, I do not need so much storage....it is just OS and the data...maybe 30 or 40 GB all together....

found now my old Acronis 9.0 and tried a restore but again....only blue screen.

[JSixpack]

After you've restored the image, you can try doing a Windows "repair install." It will leave your programs intact and working and your data too. Google and read up on it you don't know how. It sure beats a new install w/ all the programs & data. The repair will hopefully make the needed adjustments.

Before doing that, you might try a quick browse of the disk to see if it seems the files are there. Just browsing from a DOS bootup disk should be sufficient.

Edited December 19, 2007 by JSixpack

[trd]

When you made the backup did you make an image of the system partition or did you use the clone option.

[trd]

Did you restore from the recovery CD. I have never had any problems with Acronis. I would never use anything else.

[astral]

I clone my c: drive to an external disk,

but did experience problems with restore.

The Acronis boot CD did not see the external disk.

Now that particular disk is SATA.

Cloning to another disk that has the old parallel interface

and the Acronis boot disk found it without difficulty.

Don't ask me why.

All very odd.

[trd]

If you have a problem why don't you just email Acronis tech support instead of trying to get expert advice here. The only issue I ever had was that Acronis didn't recognise an external USB drive. I emailed tech support and got a reply with the solution in a matter of hours.

[Naam]

tried this but the new HDD is smaller (160 vs 240 GB) and Acronis cannot clone the disk, even when I opt for the manual method....

That's right, you can clone to a bigger one but not to an smaller HDD! May you need to buy a new one 240 or even bigger!

i do it all the time with Acronis and with Ghost without any problems. partition size on the clone are established percentage wise.

[JetsetBkk]

It's interesting that this topic has just been raised as I have at long last bought a second 80 GB internal drive for my lap top and just today have restored an image of the original C: drive (which I saved to an external USB SATA HDD) to the new drive. All went perfectly smoothly.

I used Acronis True Image Home version 11 build 8053. I first created a bootable CD from the installed software and booted from this CD to create the disk image of my old C: drive and save it to the USB drive, and then - after changing the C: drive for the new one - I booted the same Acronis CD to restore the image.

I used to use Norton Ghost to save to CD sets (which worked OK), but I couldn't get it to work with images saved on external USB drives probably because the old bootable Ghost didn't have a good USB driver. So I switched to Acronis.

The great thing is, I can now make regular images of my C: drive knowing that if ever the drive fails I have a procedure to restore the last image to my old C: drive.

[livram]

Raro, if your old hard drive was IDE and you replaced the hard drive with a SATA drive that may be your problem. SATA drivers were not included with the original XP install disk and had to be installed using a floppy disk.

[raro]

thanks for all your advise....after thinking a bit I figured this would be the problem: The image files were stored on the HDD that went south.....stupid raro, stupid!!!