Luvbrace
May 28th, 2008, 07:35 AM
Hello, I purchased the Acronis True Image 11 (8052) yesterday since one of the two laptops I have started to get loads of errors and progressively worsened until it just fails to start up Windows now. This happened during my attempt to manually backup important files and photos, so half those files/photos are still in this HDD.
This is the summary of what I've done yesterday:
Purchased Acronis True Image and downloaded it onto my working laptop with Japanese Windows Vista Business.
Created boot CD on this working system, took it out and inserted disc into my broken laptop which has Japanese Windows XP business.
This laptop would not start up with any option including safemode... they all lead to the blue screen with a stop # 0x00000024.
So I started up with the Acronis bootCD, followed instructions and set to create a back up of the entire computer onto my external HD and started the process.
...It has been about 8 hours since, the progress bar is still only showing 2 green blocks and I have seen at least 40 "failed to read" error messages, with digits in the x,xxx,xxx to xx,xxx,xxx level. I have been "ignore"ing them one by one and writing down those digits up until now, but looking at the progress and just how much errors I am getting I decided to "ignore all" just a few minutes ago. I am beginning to seriously worry if this is going to work at all.... should I have tried backing up just the files/data, or break down the back up to smaller portions at a time? or does this mean that Acronis is not going to help with my situation and my last straw of hope is to send off my laptop to one of those data recovery companies? Help!
This is the summary of what I've done yesterday:
Purchased Acronis True Image and downloaded it onto my working laptop with Japanese Windows Vista Business.
Created boot CD on this working system, took it out and inserted disc into my broken laptop which has Japanese Windows XP business.
This laptop would not start up with any option including safemode... they all lead to the blue screen with a stop # 0x00000024.
So I started up with the Acronis bootCD, followed instructions and set to create a back up of the entire computer onto my external HD and started the process.
...It has been about 8 hours since, the progress bar is still only showing 2 green blocks and I have seen at least 40 "failed to read" error messages, with digits in the x,xxx,xxx to xx,xxx,xxx level. I have been "ignore"ing them one by one and writing down those digits up until now, but looking at the progress and just how much errors I am getting I decided to "ignore all" just a few minutes ago. I am beginning to seriously worry if this is going to work at all.... should I have tried backing up just the files/data, or break down the back up to smaller portions at a time? or does this mean that Acronis is not going to help with my situation and my last straw of hope is to send off my laptop to one of those data recovery companies? Help!