Help with Restore CD - Restoring WIN2K

[powerchuck]

OK - the moment of truth has unfortunately hit me. But then that's why I invested in TI 8.0 and a 300GB external drive right?

My laptop got corrupted by a wireless driver ...long story... It is a Dell Latitude C810 laptop running Win2K SP2 - I created a rescue disk for that computer and have had TI doing backups to a 300GB Seagate external USB 2.0 drive that was attached to a desktop that is on the network. with successful backups happening across the network.

Now that my laptop crashed and I need to restore it I (safely) removed the USB cable from the desktop and put it into the laptop's USB 1.1 and have been waiting for over 1 hour for Acronis' rescue disk to finish booting up The screen just says Loading, Please wait...

I had some initial issues with super long reboots on my desktop machine and cured them by removing a program called Intel Hardware Accellerator or something like that - anyway it was all fixed.

Any suggestions - an hour and 1/2 is kinda rediculous isn't it?

[powerchuck]

Well , I power cycled the laptop and this time it came right up-


Got my fingers crossed

[Acronis Support]

Hello powerchuck,

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

Could you please describe whether you could boot the computer with Acronis Bootable CD in the end and restore the image? Did you get any error messages while booting or while restoring the image?

Thank you.
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Ilya Toytman