Warning - Imaging software with 600x in Docking Station

[robingc]

I've just had a rather drastic problem with Acronis True Image v8 and my 600x in a Selectadock III docking station, which might be useful for others to know...

Having bought the software, I thought I'd image the laptop C: drive to the large D: drive HDD in my docking station.
The imaging failed with an unexpected "out of disk space error" for the D: drive (which is 130Gb - hardly used!); the D: drive then proceeding to disappear totally after a brief display of totally corrupted disk, folder and filenames in Windows Explorer.

After various attempts to recover the HDD with Norton Disk Doctor, etc I gave up and repartioned/reformatted it, but it looked like the image file had been written to the Boot sector or somesuch, messing up the disk info. I presume this may be something to do with the docking station using the PCI bridge to get at the hard drive within it, but am no expert. So....BE WARNED!

If anyone can offer a proper explanation I'd be very interested (retrospectively!).

[pkiff]

Thanks for the warning. This is the exact system that I was planning on setting up. Previously, I've used Norton Ghost (early versions, up to 2000) with the SelectaDock III and had no difficulties, but that was always with FAT32 drives. Now that I have a mix of FAT32 and NTFS file systems, I was planning to use Acronis TrueImage to do exactly what you're doing.

Phil.