Re: acronis help
- From: Sharon F <sharonfDEL@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 09:14:10 -0500
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:21:20 -0400, keepout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Someone recommended acronis to me in this group.
I checked the acronis web site and found no answer.
I set my C:/ 152 gig SATA to
C:/ 30 gigs SYSTEM
E:/ 122 gigs PROGRAMS
Not real sure what started eating away at things, had to revert to an earlier date cause of cascading failures.
Figured out how to use acronis to restore. But at the last moment I noticed what it said, and killed power, hopefully to limit damage. Don't know if it did. Only lost data from the main drive C:/ & E:/
Can't recall exactly what it said, but it sounded like it said 'found more than expected, if you continue I will erase all your data'
I've been backing up every week for months, just the C:/ 30 gig drive to an acronis hidden partition.
Finally got things up, it restored the C: partition. The E: partition was gone. I can't really say if acronis did it or not. The instant power off with that message most likely killed the C:/ cause I couldn't reboot to the C: drive, until I used the restore CD. But I couldn't find my acronis CD right off, so I deleted the C: and the E: [looked like it was unformatted] and went to re-installing the OS again.
Does anyone know what acronis intended to do with that message I received ?
I really don't want to do this every time M$ screws up my OS. I've come to believe it has more to do with the auto updates, since that's the ONLY thing that's been installing itself for months to my machine.
I don't know the answer to question as I've never run into that message
with Acronis (I use it weekly at least sometimes more). Just a few points
to share for future reference:
1) When restoring with Acronis, the target partition has to be the same
size or larger than the one that the image was made from. You cannot shoe
horn a larger image into a smaller space. If desired, you can resize
partitions after the restore takes place.
I suspect this is what happened in your case: Acronis could not fit the C:
image into the allotted C: space. It was telling you that continuing with
the restore would have repercussions with the existing E: partition.
In the future, create your smaller partition. Then create a full image of
that resized partition. Thus eliminating the concern regarding partition
size.
2) A restore overwrites everything on a partition. If you powered off
during a restore, it's impossible to say how much had been restored - boot
sector, partition info, etc. Even if the boot sector data had been
transferred, there are no guarantees that the partition info was included
or that the partial Windows restoration would be able to complete the boot
process. If you had allowed the restore to finish, E: would still have been
toast but Windows should have booted without a problem.
HINT: I know Acronis has that nice little "incremental" function. However,
based on bad experiences with other incremental backup software (not
Acronis), I shy away from using it in any backup or imaging program.
Instead, I do a "full image" of each partition each and every time. Reason:
Incremental images consist of a base image plus x number of additions. More
parts means more potential for things to go wrong. On the other hand and my
personal feeling is that one part (a full image) increases the likelihood
of a trouble free restore.
--
Sharon F
MS-MVP ~ Windows Shell/User
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