TSGL: An Acronis Tale

[jonpan]

I can only give support to this warning. I've spent 5 hrs a day for the last 
three days trying to rescue my wife's PC. Having worked perfectly 
trouble-free for two years, it suddenly went crazy.

System Restore, Safe Mode, Recovery Console, XP Repair, Bart's PE - nothing 
helped, so off to image restore, which brings me to the point: I had three 
(3!) images from 3 different brands. Not one of them worked. Even a fresh 
install of XP failed.

It eventually turned out that the HDD was only working intermittently, i.e. 
it stopped spinning when it felt like it.

Using it as a second disk on my PC, on the 4th day I was lucky enough to get 
it to spin long enough to copy the big partition, thus rescuing the 
important data, but it makes you wonder just what is necessary to get a safe 
backup?

John

Od/G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "H Davis" <hdavis1 at gmail.com>
To: "TSGL List" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2008 11:37 PM
Subject: TSGL: An Acronis Tale


An article that might be of interest to all the folks using Acronis:

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,144256/article.html?tk=nl_sbxcol

-- 
H Davis   hdavis1 at gmail.com


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