That's good news, because scheduled backups are a real convenience. Thank you for clarifying that.
Yes, I've tried other partitions and an external hard disk -- Acronis 10 Home still crashes during creation of a backup location. But I found...
And did you ever find a solution to this problem? I ask because I have the exact same problem, same symptoms, also with TI Home 10 under Vista...
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