I have Acronis True Image Home v. 10 build 4942, running it on a four
year old Pentium IV running Windows XP Pro SP2. There are two
internal EIDE HDs and two USB HDs.

Up to now, I've been using Norton Ghost to restore my "C" drive with
no problems. Several times I've restored the entire C drive using
Norton Ghost when new hardware drivers were installed and crashed my
system (that is, getting a BSOD, and you have to restart in Safe
Mode).

Because Acronis has such a good reputation I decided in the last few
weeks to forgo Norton Ghost (a 2001 version that I boot from a CD) to
back up my C drive, using only Acronis v. 10 from inside of Windows.
Big mistake.

When in fact a new hardware driver (the usual suspect, the video card)
caused my PC to crash, I tried to load an image file of the C: drive
that I had just backed up using Acronis. Much to my surprise, the
image file, which was on a USB external HD, would not load. I got a
bizarre error message from inside of Acronis that was clearly intended
for an Acronis programmer (an error code that was a number). I was
running the program in "Safe" mode from inside the Administrator
account.

Luckily, I "rolled back" the drivers (all four of them, since I had
four different hardware driver updates--note to reader: don't
download and install more than one hardware driver at a time from
Windows Update--since you'll have a hard time figuring out which one
is the culprit) and restored my system to the way it was before.

Other factors: I have several antivirus/spamware/firewalls running,
and perhaps they somehow interfered with restoration, but Acronis
should have given an error message that I could read (like "please
disable all XYZ programs.."), but, since I was running in "Safe" mode
in Windows, I doubt these programs were even loaded.

In short, Acronis, at least for my system, and when trying to reload
an image file to restore a HD from an external (USB) drive, doesn't
work.

I'm going back to Norton Ghost, which is free.

Acronis does seem to work for simple backup of data files, as opposed
to image files of an entire drive.

Beware--when you need this program the most, it might not work.

RL

"raylopez99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have Acronis True Image Home v. 10 build 4942, running it on a four
> year old Pentium IV running Windows XP Pro SP2. There are two
> internal EIDE HDs and two USB HDs.
>
> Up to now, I've been using Norton Ghost to restore my "C" drive with
> no problems. Several times I've restored the entire C drive using
> Norton Ghost when new hardware drivers were installed and crashed my
> system (that is, getting a BSOD, and you have to restart in Safe
> Mode).
>
> Because Acronis has such a good reputation I decided in the last few
> weeks to forgo Norton Ghost (a 2001 version that I boot from a CD) to
> back up my C drive, using only Acronis v. 10 from inside of Windows.
> Big mistake.
>
> When in fact a new hardware driver (the usual suspect, the video card)
> caused my PC to crash, I tried to load an image file of the C: drive
> that I had just backed up using Acronis. Much to my surprise, the
> image file, which was on a USB external HD, would not load. I got a
> bizarre error message from inside of Acronis that was clearly intended
> for an Acronis programmer (an error code that was a number). I was
> running the program in "Safe" mode from inside the Administrator
> account.
>
> Luckily, I "rolled back" the drivers (all four of them, since I had
> four different hardware driver updates--note to reader: don't
> download and install more than one hardware driver at a time from
> Windows Update--since you'll have a hard time figuring out which one
> is the culprit) and restored my system to the way it was before.
>
> Other factors: I have several antivirus/spamware/firewalls running,
> and perhaps they somehow interfered with restoration, but Acronis
> should have given an error message that I could read (like "please
> disable all XYZ programs.."), but, since I was running in "Safe" mode
> in Windows, I doubt these programs were even loaded.
>
> In short, Acronis, at least for my system, and when trying to reload
> an image file to restore a HD from an external (USB) drive, doesn't
> work.
>
> I'm going back to Norton Ghost, which is free.
>
> Acronis does seem to work for simple backup of data files, as opposed
> to image files of an entire drive.
>
> Beware--when you need this program the most, it might not work.
>
> RL
>

you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
father hard drive.

when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.

Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.

On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:

> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
> father hard drive.

Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.

>
> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.
>
> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.

How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?

RL

"raylopez99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
>> father hard drive.
>
> Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.
>
>>
>> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.
>>
>> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.
>
> How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?
>
> RL
>
>
>

yes....

dj
a competent person

raylopez99 wrote:

> I'm going back to Norton Ghost, which is free.

Since when?

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On Oct 22, 11:31 pm, spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:
> raylopez99 wrote:
> > I'm going back to Norton Ghost, which is free.
>
> Since when?
>
> --
> spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply
> Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow transplant. Please
> volunteer to be a marrow donor and literally save someone's life:http://www.abmdr.org.au/http://www.marrow.org/

I'm using the free Norton Ghost 2002 CD that I got at eBay for $1 +
shipping. For all I know it could be pirated, but it works fine. YOu
have to book from your floppy (using Windows 98) or from the CD
(ditto), but it does clone HDs (twice I've used this) and it does an
image backup of your root drive. But you need to copy the root (C
drive to a FAT32 drive partition not on the physical drive, which I do
(my seperate D: drive,which has a FAT32 partition on it just for this
purpose). Norton Ghost, unlike Acronis, has saved me countless times
(at least a half dozen) when doing a restore of the image (root)
drive.

RL

"raylopez99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
>> father hard drive.
>
> Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.
>
>>
>> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.
>>
>> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.
>
> How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?
>

I have no idea if BIC has, but I have certainly restored a boot drive on
several occasions with success*. the most serious problem that I had was
restoring to a HP machine where the Trueimage boot disk wouldn't recognise
the HP mouse. This was but a minor inconvenience because the same result
could be achieved by using the keyboard 'ALT' key to select what was wanted.

What you do have to do is to do a trial restore to an old (or new) disk to
find out what snags if any you are going to meet and find a way round them.
Do this before you *have* to do a restore in anger when it usually far
harder to work around any snags.

*and on at least two occasions when the operating system corrupted.

"raylopez99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> On Oct 22, 11:31 pm, spodosaurus <spodosaurus@_yahoo_.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using the free Norton Ghost 2002 CD that I got at eBay for $1 +
> shipping.

This must be some new usage of the word 'free' with which I was previously
unfamiliar.

I was a long time Ghost user myself from way back when you ran it from a
single floppy. (version 5 or 6)

I've discovered that Ghost was fine up and until Symantec bout it and came
out with Ghost 2003. From there on it was all downhill. Much more complex to
use, etc.

That's when I heard about Acronis Trueimage and downloaded their 15 day
trial version, I think that was back at ver 8 of Trueimage.

I've never gone back to Ghost since.

I haven't had a single problem with Versions 8,9, or 10 in both backing up
and restoring anything.

I'm sorry that it's just not working properly for you.


"raylopez99" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>I have Acronis True Image Home v. 10 build 4942, running it on a four
> year old Pentium IV running Windows XP Pro SP2. There are two
> internal EIDE HDs and two USB HDs.
>
> Up to now, I've been using Norton Ghost to restore my "C" drive with
> no problems. Several times I've restored the entire C drive using
> Norton Ghost when new hardware drivers were installed and crashed my
> system (that is, getting a BSOD, and you have to restart in Safe
> Mode).
>
> Because Acronis has such a good reputation I decided in the last few
> weeks to forgo Norton Ghost (a 2001 version that I boot from a CD) to
> back up my C drive, using only Acronis v. 10 from inside of Windows.
> Big mistake.
>
> When in fact a new hardware driver (the usual suspect, the video card)
> caused my PC to crash, I tried to load an image file of the C: drive
> that I had just backed up using Acronis. Much to my surprise, the
> image file, which was on a USB external HD, would not load. I got a
> bizarre error message from inside of Acronis that was clearly intended
> for an Acronis programmer (an error code that was a number). I was
> running the program in "Safe" mode from inside the Administrator
> account.
>
> Luckily, I "rolled back" the drivers (all four of them, since I had
> four different hardware driver updates--note to reader: don't
> download and install more than one hardware driver at a time from
> Windows Update--since you'll have a hard time figuring out which one
> is the culprit) and restored my system to the way it was before.
>
> Other factors: I have several antivirus/spamware/firewalls running,
> and perhaps they somehow interfered with restoration, but Acronis
> should have given an error message that I could read (like "please
> disable all XYZ programs.."), but, since I was running in "Safe" mode
> in Windows, I doubt these programs were even loaded.
>
> In short, Acronis, at least for my system, and when trying to reload
> an image file to restore a HD from an external (USB) drive, doesn't
> work.
>
> I'm going back to Norton Ghost, which is free.
>
> Acronis does seem to work for simple backup of data files, as opposed
> to image files of an entire drive.
>
> Beware--when you need this program the most, it might not work.
>
> RL
>

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 14:44:56 -0700, raylopez99 <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Oct 22, 10:38 am, "BIC" <rol...@pointbtinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> you can say that for all BU software.........EVEN GHOST cos it f'k up my
>> father hard drive.
>
>Ghost has worked fine for me. TO each their own.
>
>>
>> when you buy a firework you don't know its gona work until YOU light it.
>>
>> Acronis is very good when used by a competent person.
>
>How would you know? Have you tried it to restore a boot drive image?

I have and I have had no problem at all.
I used to use Ghost but have been using Acronis for about 2 years or
so with absolutely no problem at all. Sorry it didn't work for you but
I must report that it is exactly what I need. By the way all of my
backups are boot drive images..