Error message - "Hasn't found any hard drives"

[GEDDES]

New laptop bought with Win XP installed, but only a pathetic rescue disc instead of a full Windows installation disk.

This worries me, based upon the number of times I need to reformat and start from scratch. In fact, that's what I mainly use TrueImage for.


So, I transferred a full image to CD's (five of them). When I test them, by going through the non-commital first stages of restoring the image, I get the following error message.......

"E000101F4: Acronis True Image has not found any hard disk drives."

Can anyone advise, please? :-\

[mfabien]

Are you using the Acronis Rescue CD? Do you have 2 CD-ROM drives?

Or are you trying to do this within Windows?

I've read in other threads that you may copy your archive from the CD's to a HDD or another partition of your HDD and from there restore your main HDD partition.

Best solution = an external drive. I use a USB HDD but many prefer a SATA*external drive.

[nswartz]

Try re-installing Acronis. I ran into this after manually deleting the secure zone using MS Disk Manager.
The re-install worked.

[Acronis Support]

Hello GEDDES,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Backup Software (http://www.acronis.com/products/).

We are sorry for the delayed response.

Please see this post (http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showpost.php?p=932181&postcount=16) for instructions.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov