Acronis True Image WD Edition

[Muse]

I installed this on my XP desktop. When I boot the machine it sits at a screen until I hit enter. The message is:

Acronis Loader fatal error: Boot drive (partition) not found.
Press <Enter> to try to boot your OS...


After pressing Enter, the machine boots.

I figured I should uninstall Acronis to fix the problem, I can use one of my other machines to do what I need to do with Acronis, e.g. a Win7 laptop that has it installed without apparent difficulties.

Problem is I don't see Acronis in the list of programs in Add/Remove Programs. At the Start/Programs for XP, there's Acronis and several aspects of it, the program, web help, but no option to uninstall it. What can I do to stop this problem?

 

[Muse]

Well, I ran the installer again and it gave me the option to uninstall it or repair. I'm uninstalling it.

 

[Charlie98]

It sounds like Acronis wasn't fully installed previously, or corrupted somehow. I'd reinstall it and see if that fixes it.

 

[corkyg]

If the reinstall works, then find Tools and Rescue Media Builder. Then create such media (bootable) and always run True Image from the bootable Media, not from Windows.

 

[uberman]

I use Acronis True Image to clone my Seagate hard drives. It comes for free on the Seagate Diskwizard software. I put a drive in an external USB external hard drive case and copy it. I run the Acronis software by creating a CD. I set the BIOS to boot to CD on startup. The Acronis software is never installed. It simply operates on the optical media.

I was going to spend $60.00 for Acronis True Image software to back up my PCs. Acronis told me I'd have to buy a copy of the software for each individual PC that I'm backing up. Screw that! The free version works great.

 

[Z15CAM]

Acronis is a shit GUI Software - Learn to use a DOS Boot 1.35Mb software named GHOST.EXE.

 

[Muse]

Acronis is a shit GUI Software - Learn to use a DOS Boot 1.35Mb software named GHOST.EXE.

I have Ghost from Norton. I could still use it. It has some issues with external USB HDs sometimes, e.g. can read from them but not write to them. Rather than dealing with those issues (show stoppers), I have gone to WD Acronis Free. I also have Seagate Backup Plus 3TB USB HDs, which has it's own backup software (which comes preloaded on the HDs), but I've yet to try it.

Ghost is a nice program, very simple and intuitive, but unfortunately has some quirks, as described above. It was bought by Symantec, who were incapable of designing such an intuitive program. Unfortunately, they don't seem to have done anything with it but eventually ruin it.