Acronis

[Rose]

Ive tried using Acronis several times. A couple of times at first it worked fine, but after that it has done nothing but giving me a headache.

Most of the time when im cloning a complete disk to image, and restoring it (mostly to another drive), the restoreprocess completes, but the drive does most of the time not boot. Ive tried various things like checking if the partition is active, fixing mbr, installing 3rd party bootmanagers. Nothing works for making the disk to boot. Other than that the whole filesystem seems to be in order. The annoying thing is that sometimes when restoring the image, the disk completes successfully and does work/boot, and I really cant see any difference between the occasions except (sometimes) being different drives.

But this is not all. Acronis behaves really erratic. Sometimes when choosing a harddriveimage, i get lists of partitions to choose from that dont even are on the image. When this occurs, and choosing the accurate disk/partition, Acronics makes a "complete restore" in a split second, and of course, the disk does not work.

Sometimes after restoring an image, Acronis gives me a message telling me restore has been successful, but i need to restart my computer for the changes to take affect(?)! The thing i hate about this is that i need to kill the process in taskmanager, or no matter what i do, acronis will reboot my computer in a second, not giving me any chance to save my files. And im still talking about the same imagefile that should and in some cases is being restored and everything is fine.

And that’s not all. Sometimes when removing and inserting a new drive (in my ultrabay), it causes the whole system to hang.

So, is it just me? Or are there anyone else with similar experiences.

Im using Acronis 8.0 along with XP sp2 on my T43p

[bill bolton]

Im using Acronis 8.0 along with XP sp2 on my T43p

I use Acronis 9.0 on T41 and T43 ThinkPads, and haven't experienced any of those problems.

Cheers,

Bill

[ronbo613]

I use Acronis 9 as well, mostly to clone hard drives. If you are making a disc image, there may be some things here and there that can cause problems if the procedures are not done perfectly.
You can look HERE, you should be able to find help for any problems with Acronis.