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Acronis on Vostro 1500 problems
Hello all, Do any of you have any ideas why acronis doesn't work on my Vostro 1500? When I go to replace an image, acronis gets to about 95 percent and then freezes. This has happened with a number of different installations and images, so clearly there is a problem. Ideas?
Message Edited by bayreuth on 06-15-2008 12:27 AM
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Posted June 15th, 2008 10:00
If it seems to always freeze at about the same point, it could mean there's some bad spots on your hard drive
Suggest: Use chkdsk with /f option to search for AND REPAIR bad sectors ("repair" may simply be it marks a sector as bad and doesn't reuse it)Here's a MS KB on the how to do.
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Posted June 14th, 2008 21:00
I have used Acronis True Image V9, 10 and now 11 on both Windows XP and Vista systems without problems. I have done a complete restore of the hard drive (both the "C" drive and the two Dell diagnostic and restore partitions).
When I do a backup, I backup the entire hard drive, to my external USB hard drive. I do a full backup (using the defaults), no incremental or selective backups. When I restore, I boot from the bootable rescue CD created with Acronis and then do the restore from my USB drive.