I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few days
or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to do a
complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the Help
text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for backups?

I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.

garyr wrote:
> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few
> days or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I
> tried to do a complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions
> for doing the restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to
> descriptions in the Help text. An error message was displayed at one
> point that was completely mystifying. I can live without doing the
> restore but I'd like to give Acronis the boot. Is there another
> product you would recommend for backups?
> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.

Paragon

Free
http://download.cnet.com/Paragon-Bac...-10972187.html

All
http://www.paragon-software.com/products/home/

Other free stuff
http://www.paragon-software.com/free/

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"garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few days
> or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to do
> a
> complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the Help
> text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
> mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for
> backups?
>
> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>
>

Not to jump on you too much, but. . . If you got this product to save your
bacon at some time, shouldn't you have learned how to use it, and see if it
worked sometime within the past two years before a restore was necessary?
Just saying. . .

I've used ATI Home for quite some time now, and have not had any problems
restoring on XP or Windows 7. If you can remember or duplicate the
mystifying message, you might possibly get help with it. It may not even be
an Acronis problem.

Others have recommended Macrium Reflect- there's a free version of it- and
Paragon. I haven't used either, but have read good reviews of both.
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On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 09:56:40 -0700, "garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
>faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few days
>or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to do a
>complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
>restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the Help
>text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
>mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
>Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for backups?
>
>I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>
>

Macrium Reflect ( free ) .

"garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:ipc6av$98o$(E-Mail Removed):

> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple
> of years, faithfully backing up my computer to an external
> hard drive every few days or after any significant change.
> Today, for the first time, I tried to do a complete restore
> and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to
> descriptions in the Help text. An error message was
> displayed at one point that was completely mystifying. I
> can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would
> recommend for backups?
>
> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.

When Acronis still had live support, I found out that
/sometimes/, if you change a /significant/ hardware part (amount
of RAM, for instance, does not count), it will not restore. But
it does not appear that this is your problem.

Have you tried to restore using the emergency recovery CD (which
you, of course, have created and keep in a safe place)?
Sometimes the thing just does not want to work from within
Windows, but works perfectly booting from the CD.

"SC Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:ipc9s4$ph6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ipc6av$98o$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
>> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few
>> days
>> or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to do
>> a
>> complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
>> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the Help
>> text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
>> mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
>> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for
>> backups?
>>
>> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>>
>>
>
> Not to jump on you too much, but. . . If you got this product to save your
> bacon at some time, shouldn't you have learned how to use it, and see if
> it worked sometime within the past two years before a restore was
> necessary? Just saying. . .
>
> I've used ATI Home for quite some time now, and have not had any problems
> restoring on XP or Windows 7. If you can remember or duplicate the
> mystifying message, you might possibly get help with it. It may not even
> be an Acronis problem.
>
> Others have recommended Macrium Reflect- there's a free version of it- and
> Paragon. I haven't used either, but have read good reviews of both.
> --
> SC Tom
>

Thanks for your reply. I agree with your scolding, I should have learned how
to use this thing. I've restored files from time to time and that always
went just fine.

My backups are on an external USB hard drive. I start Acronis and after the
restore parameters have been specified the computer must be restarted. With
the USB drive plugged in I get an error message "Attempting to boot from USB
device. NTLDR is missing". If I unplug the drive, restart and plug in the
drive before BIOS is complete, the Acronis restore begins but after a short
time another error message appears: "W00040011 Specify location of the
volume 29" and a window is displayed allowing you to browse and locate the
volume. I tried several things but nothing worked.

"garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ipd1i1$kh2$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
> "SC Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:ipc9s4$ph6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> "garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:ipc6av$98o$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
>>> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few
>>> days
>>> or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to
>>> do
>>> a
>>> complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
>>> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the
>>> Help
>>> text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
>>> mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
>>> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for
>>> backups?
>>>
>>> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not to jump on you too much, but. . . If you got this product to save
>> your
>> bacon at some time, shouldn't you have learned how to use it, and see if
>> it worked sometime within the past two years before a restore was
>> necessary? Just saying. . .
>>
>> I've used ATI Home for quite some time now, and have not had any problems
>> restoring on XP or Windows 7. If you can remember or duplicate the
>> mystifying message, you might possibly get help with it. It may not even
>> be an Acronis problem.
>>
>> Others have recommended Macrium Reflect- there's a free version of it-
>> and
>> Paragon. I haven't used either, but have read good reviews of both.
>> --
>> SC Tom
>>
>
> Thanks for your reply. I agree with your scolding, I should have learned
> how
> to use this thing. I've restored files from time to time and that always
> went just fine.
>
> My backups are on an external USB hard drive. I start Acronis and after
> the
> restore parameters have been specified the computer must be restarted.
> With
> the USB drive plugged in I get an error message "Attempting to boot from
> USB
> device. NTLDR is missing". If I unplug the drive, restart and plug in the
> drive before BIOS is complete, the Acronis restore begins but after a
> short
> time another error message appears: "W00040011 Specify location of the
> volume 29" and a window is displayed allowing you to browse and locate the
> volume. I tried several things but nothing worked.
>
>
>

That sounds like a "boot order" problem, e.g. when usb drive is connected pc
tries to boot from it instead of cd drive.

Might want to look at the boot order in the bios insuring cd drive(s) listed
first and/or there may be some hot key during bootup where the BIOS gives
you a list of what to try booting from (in which case try cd drive rather
than usb of course). Sounds like pc should be able to boot off cd drive with
the external connected and that perhaps will then solve the error message.

I just had small issue where pc would not boot from one of the cd drives. I
was so used to oldfer pc only having the choice "CD" that had forgotten this
pc you actually have to specify which one (have two in pc) so add the place
them as 1st/2nd in order specifically before hard disk to have both work.

It also sounds like you haven't created the stand alone boot cd that Acronis
can make? Do so and try that to boot pc. My experience has been overall
positive with that approach even though it has failed trying to do one thing
I expected it to (restore just will not see 2nd internal hard disk even
though both BIOS and Windows does on one pc I have)

On 04/28/2011 11:56 AM, garyr wrote:
> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few days
> or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to do a
> complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the Help
> text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
> mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for backups?
>
> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>
>
>


I use Acronis whenever I need to clone a drive
and it's always worked without a problem

As to data backups...I;ve always thought utilities were rather absurd...
it makes a lot more sense (to me) to simply copy data to another
location...some kind of compressed, propitiatory format never seemed
like a good idea

"pjp" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ipd1i1$kh2$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> "SC Tom" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:ipc9s4$ph6$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>
>>> "garyr" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news:ipc6av$98o$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
>>>> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few
>>>> days
>>>> or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to
>>>> do
>>>> a
>>>> complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
>>>> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the
>>>> Help
>>>> text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
>>>> mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
>>>> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for
>>>> backups?
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Not to jump on you too much, but. . . If you got this product to save
>>> your
>>> bacon at some time, shouldn't you have learned how to use it, and see if
>>> it worked sometime within the past two years before a restore was
>>> necessary? Just saying. . .
>>>
>>> I've used ATI Home for quite some time now, and have not had any
>>> problems
>>> restoring on XP or Windows 7. If you can remember or duplicate the
>>> mystifying message, you might possibly get help with it. It may not even
>>> be an Acronis problem.
>>>
>>> Others have recommended Macrium Reflect- there's a free version of it-
>>> and
>>> Paragon. I haven't used either, but have read good reviews of both.
>>> --
>>> SC Tom
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for your reply. I agree with your scolding, I should have learned
>> how
>> to use this thing. I've restored files from time to time and that always
>> went just fine.
>>
>> My backups are on an external USB hard drive. I start Acronis and after
>> the
>> restore parameters have been specified the computer must be restarted.
>> With
>> the USB drive plugged in I get an error message "Attempting to boot from
>> USB
>> device. NTLDR is missing". If I unplug the drive, restart and plug in the
>> drive before BIOS is complete, the Acronis restore begins but after a
>> short
>> time another error message appears: "W00040011 Specify location of the
>> volume 29" and a window is displayed allowing you to browse and locate
>> the
>> volume. I tried several things but nothing worked.
>>
>>
>>
>
> That sounds like a "boot order" problem, e.g. when usb drive is connected
> pc tries to boot from it instead of cd drive.
>
> Might want to look at the boot order in the bios insuring cd drive(s)
> listed first and/or there may be some hot key during bootup where the BIOS
> gives you a list of what to try booting from (in which case try cd drive
> rather than usb of course). Sounds like pc should be able to boot off cd
> drive with the external connected and that perhaps will then solve the
> error message.
>
> I just had small issue where pc would not boot from one of the cd drives.
> I was so used to oldfer pc only having the choice "CD" that had forgotten
> this pc you actually have to specify which one (have two in pc) so add the
> place them as 1st/2nd in order specifically before hard disk to have both
> work.
>
> It also sounds like you haven't created the stand alone boot cd that
> Acronis can make? Do so and try that to boot pc. My experience has been
> overall positive with that approach even though it has failed trying to do
> one thing I expected it to (restore just will not see 2nd internal hard
> disk even though both BIOS and Windows does on one pc I have)
>

You were spot-on. The boot order had the USB device first. I changed that to
last and am able to restart now with the USB hard drive attached. That
probably also explains why I couldn't restart with an external (USB)
sound card attached. Now if I could just get up the nerve to try the
restore...

Thanks to all who replied to my post.

"philo" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On 04/28/2011 11:56 AM, garyr wrote:
>> I've been using Acronis True Image Home 2009 for a couple of years,
>> faithfully backing up my computer to an external hard drive every few
>> days
>> or after any significant change. Today, for the first time, I tried to do
>> a
>> complete restore and found I couldn't. The instructions for doing the
>> restore were ambiguous and did not correspond to descriptions in the Help
>> text. An error message was displayed at one point that was completely
>> mystifying. I can live without doing the restore but I'd like to give
>> Acronis the boot. Is there another product you would recommend for
>> backups?
>>
>> I'm using Win XP Pro, SP3.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I use Acronis whenever I need to clone a drive
> and it's always worked without a problem
>
> As to data backups...I;ve always thought utilities were rather absurd...
> it makes a lot more sense (to me) to simply copy data to another
> location...some kind of compressed, propitiatory format never seemed like
> a good idea

I'll certainly agree to that! Externals and shares on other networked pc's
have served me well.