Automated System Recovery run causes boot problems

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I've recently started getting these freezes/crashes that force me to
restart, during which I get these messages telling me that there's a problem
communicating with the HDD or the Operating System cannot be found, Boot
from CD; If I persist, it tells me I'm missing essential files like ntldr
or ntoskrnl.exe or similar, always different. Now, I know these files are
there and, through being persistant -rebooting again and again- I finally
get my system up and running again.

I think this may have begun when I rebooted during an Automated System
Recovery Backup run; It had frozen or I might have got impatient and only
thought it had done. Either way, my understanding is that during this
process, the OS copy's the files for the ASR and in prematurely pre-empting
the tidy finish of this process I've left the OS assuming that somehow these
files aren't available, though they are.

I was able to use System Restore to go back, but the next freeze disabused
me of the idea I'd somehow solved the problem.

I next tried restoring the clean Automated System Restore copy I had, but
again the next freeze left me in the same situation.

Has anyone seen this situation before? Got any ideas of what I might do to
correct the problem? I'd appreciate any tips at all; I't may not even be
the unfinished ASR run that caused this, but it's the only thing I can think
of.

I'd also appreciate any advice on what to use to get the ASR files onto a
DVD -my only option- so that I can get access if the system shuts me out
completely, it's pointless having them on the HDD. Acronis True Image? or
something else? It's 8.3 Gb so, with my brand spanking new burner I could
put it on a Double Layer DVD? Do these programs compress the files and if
so, not having access to my drives and the programs themselves, how do you
get the damn thing onto the drive?

I've found not having access to my NTFS drives through DOS a problem; I
don't know enough to get round this or what I might use to use to the
resources on the drive if I have a problem.

Thank you.


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