Well, I have a password for my root account on my workstation and also can use sudo (Ubuntu 7.10). I assume you should be in admin group in order...
You can create root password using "sudo passwd" command. There is no password for root by default so you can just type new one. After that you...
The trial version of Acronis True Image is fully functional under Windows (not sure about Try&Decide). So you can clone a disk easily.
Have you tried to contact Acronis support? They have special utilities for diagnosing installation or unseeing drives issues.
Do you use the latest build of ATI? It seems that snapapi driver didn't installed correctly as far as you have had issues with ATI...
Re: Sata drive shown as IDE(0) Secondary Slave I would recommend you to boot from Acronis True Image bootable rescue media created with the...
You can try to use Acronis Disk Editor included into Acronis Disk Director.
Separate names with a comma.