Creating a recovery disk that will work on SATA drives

[Ben Ramsay]

Enviroment in use

Vista Home Premium
Compaq Presaio CQ40 Laptop
200+ GB Sata Drive (I think)
4GB MEMORY

I am trying to create a recovery disk set that will allow me to image and
restore my hard drive, however my last attempt using BARTPE and Driveimaxe
xml failed. I was able to backup my hard disk but when i went to restore my
partition, I got a bsod. I also tried Acronis home 11 recovery media and it
seemed to stall half way through the restore process, backup process wass
the same as before.

The only way to restore my disk parition is to remove my drive and conect it
to an external USB caddy and no problems occur other than it is a little
slow and time consuming.

Any ideas on how to solve this problem would be great as I need an easier
solution to all this.

 

[DL]

Acronis TI works for me, I allways verify the image, the only time I've seen
problems it was found that memory was iffy (detected after running a lenghty
session from www.memtest.org )

 

[Richard Urban]

If your hard drive is currently defective, or marginal, some of the image
programs will balk or outright fail when either imaging or performing a
recovery on said disk. I have personal experience with this phenomenon.

 

[Ben Ramsay]

Ok, let's focus on dtive image xml for starters. I am able to create images
as i have stated but was unable to even start the bsrtpe disk that was
created with Win xp pro with sp1 as i was getting a bsod basically saying it
could not find my drive, so u downloaded the driver pack and intergrated it
into bart pe and was able to start bart pe and access driveimage xml to
start the restore process.

the problem i am facing is i am getting a write error, parameter incorrect.
and yet i am still able to create images via windows.

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[Richard Urban]

I have not personally heard of Drive Image XML.

I don't believe that is the name of the actual program. What IS the name of
the program you are using, or attempting to use?

How about a link to the web page where it explains a bit about this that you
are trying to use?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I have not personally heard of Drive Image XML.

I don't believe that is the name of the actual program. What IS the name of
the program you are using, or attempting to use?

How about a link to the web page where it explains a bit about this that you
are trying to use?

I've used Drive Image XML...That is its name.