Starting from scratch with Acronis...need help!

I purchased Acronis TI some time ago (sorry, not sure of version or build) and took disc images fairly frequently.
Then the inevitable happened (crash) and I lost everything. Thank God for Acronis TI thought I.
However on trying to restore from my main volume on CD-R, my screen showed the following Acronis commentary;
Loading, please wait....
crc error<6>Freeing initrd memory: 6655k freed
Kernel panic : No init found. Try passing init = option to kernel.

Then nothing!
I am running Windows XP which is OEM, so all I can do is restore the OS to 'factory settings' so to speak.

I've lost alot of important data and great programs which I hope are sitting on several TI CD-R's but I'm not sure what to do next.

PLEASE help Guys, (be gentle with me, I'm not very bright when it comes to technical stuff)

 

In my experience, those messages mean a hardware error. It usually is a bad ram chip, which may explain why your computer crashed in the first place.

 

Hello Steve --

Thank you for taking the time to contact us and for your interest in Acronis
True Image (http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/)!

There are two possible reasons :

1) The bootable media you are booting from is corrupted - please try to create it again and see if it helps.

2) There is some problem with RAM, indeed.

Thank you.

--
Best regards,
Anton Gromov

Acronis, Inc.
395 Oyster Point Blvd. Suite 213
South San Francisco
CA 94080 USA
http://www.acronis.com/

Acronis... Compute with confidence

 

Thanks beenthereb4 and Anton.

Anton,..by bootable media do you mean the Acronis TI bootable discs I made when I first used True Image, or the reload cd with which I restored Windows XP?

Thanks guys for the quick response

 

Hi, Steve T

Anton is talking about your Ti BootDisk.

Make a New One.

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

Thanks TheQuest.

OK, did that. This time it said;

Loading, please wait....
incomplete distance tree
invalid compressed format (err=1) <6>Freeing initrd memory:6655k freed
Kernel panic : no init found. Try passing init = option to kernel

Sorry, I've no idea what this means but I'm sure it'll mean something to someone out there.

Thanks again guys.

 

Hi Guys,

beenthereb4 and Anton,
Just ran the tests on Windows Memory Diagnostic, and all tests failed so it looks like you're right.

Anton,
When I've replaced the RAM, I should be able to restore from TI, right?

Thanks again guys.

 

Hello --

Yeah, it should work now.

Thank you.

--
Best regards,
Anton Gromov

Acronis, Inc.
395 Oyster Point Blvd. Suite 213
South San Francisco
CA 94080 USA
http://www.acronis.com/

Acronis... Compute with confidence