Acronis Problems on 8106

[Ed_Perkins]

I'm having problems using the Acronis Recovery Manager after trying Ghost 14 to do backup and restores.  On one system I still see the "Press F4 for Acronis Recovery Manager", but Windows still boots when I press F4.  On a second system the "Press F4....."  message doesn't even show up.  Both systems still have the Acronis partition according to Windows Disk Manager.  I don't want to use the Windows recovery DVD because I believe it will wipe out the Acronis partition.  Is there any way (file restoration, etc.) to recover, short of a full restore from another system?

I have a third system that still works correctly.  My backup plan is to get the correct version of Ghost (Visual Solution Suite), make a backup of the third system and restore that to the other two systems.  I found out the hard way that Ghost 14 doesn't support making backups on one system and restoring them to another system. 

And on another note: I tried using the "Full Version (OEM)" of Acronis that is available from the recovery manager.  I tried saving both partitions (Windows NTFS and Acronis FAT32), but continually received disk write errors when writing to my USB CD/DVD drive.  I know the drive is good (works fine with Windows and to boot from), so I guess the Acronis SW doesn't have the correct driver for it. 

Cheers,

Ed Perkins

[MikeS81]

Hi Ed_Perkins,

the image of your system is on a hidden partition. You can see it if you install acronis. Maybe it helps to restore your system without the recovery DVD.

Hope it helps.

Mike

[Ed_Perkins]

Mike -

What do you mean by "if you install acronis"?  Do you mean to buy the full up Acronis package and install it?  My main problem is that I can't restore two systems because I can't get into the Acronis recovery manager at boot up.

Thanks,

ed

[Caleb_W]

Hi Ed, 

If Acronis is loaded you should be able to press F4 and boot into it.  Since this is not working, have you verified that your keyboard is being detected prior to booting?  You can force a keyboard to be present by selecting that in the BIOS.  If you use the CD to restore, you will not disturb the Acronis image as long as you do not delete the partition it is stored on.   

[Ed_Perkins]

Caleb -

The keyboard work fine - if I boot into Windows I have no problems.  I'll try restoring from the Windows Restore DVD and see what happens.  I was shying away from that because I thought the restore might wipe out the Acronis partition.  Will let you know what happens.

Ed