removed Acronis driver from Device Mgr, BSOD on reboot

[dclive]

Yep, that's what I'd expect too. So for that reason I'm surprised last known good didn't fix your problem.

You might try booting to recovery console and disabling all of the related services; that might be helpful as well. However, it's really up to the vendor in a situation like this - I'd ask them what, exactly, disabling the device in DM does in the registry - once you've got that, you can easily fix this now.

 

[Evander]

Never heard from Acronis, and I'm tired of dealing with this crap so I replaced the SYSTEM file with one from Feb 2006 (taken from an Acronis image made at that time, I temporarily installed Acronis on a friend's system to explore the image and get the file). Seems to be running fine so far, though I had to reinstall my wireless drivers, my printer drivers will need to be reinstalled, and the soft-firewall detected something was wrong but repaired itself. What other repurcussions can I expect from using an old SYSTEM file, and is there anything I can do to make it "better"? What is generally contained in the SYSTEM file anyway?

Booh to Acronis for never responding. Maybe I'll start using DriveImage XML, and make backups more often. Also start using the freeware ERUNT (it pretty much duplicates XP's system restore feature. The kicker is I had it installed on this Win2K laptop to manually backup the registry and turned off the option to Auto-backup on boot).

 

[dclive]

I wouldn't even bother with installing that type of program (PQ DriveImage) into the OS - I just use my BartPE CDs with Ghost 8.0/32 installed on them, and I use that to copy my drives when I need to.