Imaging problem 1

[kumar6]

Hi everyone,

I am having a problem with hard disk imaging. I am running a win XP pro, 512 MB RAM, Pentium 4, 1.59 GHz. Well, I have Acronis True Image 8.0 installed and I created an image after installing basic softwares like norton antivirus, MS-Office, Antispyware. I imaged it the first time and thankfully it has been going good.
The problem started when I tried to image again...either a full image or an incremental to the first one....when i reboot the PC after creating an image, i get a blue screen and it says some error occured and asks me to run the chkdsk....sometimes the chkdsk runs itself saying that it found errors and rectifies it . It restarts again and this time I get a glimpse of the blue screen and reboots in a cyclical manner.

Fortunately for me the first image works fine that is how I am getting to the system everytime this happens. I dont know what is making this happen? Please also note that a similar thing used to happen when I had Norton Ghost 2005. On imaging with ghost, I used to get a error message saying some hal.dll file was missing. Even on replacing, it used to ask for zillions of files as missing. Soon I had to take that down and tried Acronis.

I needed to know, where exactly I am doing wrong? Is there a way to rectify this problem.

I thank all of you for your invaluable advise and time.

Thanks

regards
Kumar

 

[linney]

Are you fully updated including SP2?

Try Safe Mode. If you CAN get to the Safe Mode options screen, SP2 has inserted a new option to Stop at the BSOD rather than restart automatically. If you can do this you will be able (for what it is worth) read the error message.

There is an Acronis True Image forum on this site -

http://www.wilderssecurity.com

They may be able to offer you more specific help?

Acronis is a well respected piece of software but it does sound like you are not getting a true image for one reason or another.

Personally I am happy just using ASR that is included with XP.

How to Set up and Use Automated System Recovery in Windows XP

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/itpro/managing/asr.asp

You need a second partition for ASR to work properly.

I have also used successfully the Imaging software from this site -

BOOTIT NG

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/help.html#qnx

 

[micker377]

I had the very same problem (couldn't do an "Append"), when I first installed Acronis. Go to the Acronis web site and check the FAQ's. It's because some XP "service" is turned off and should be turned on. Very simple fix - I wish I could remember what it is!