Not recognizing hard disc??

Hello

I just got True Image and installed it and i trying it to create a back up of my disc. When i do this a message comes up "Acronis*True*Image*Home has not found any hard disk drives." Any ideas?
I am using True Image 10.0 Build 4942

 

If your drive is a dynamic disk TI would not "see" it.

 

Which means what? Will I not be able to use TI to back up and use it to upgarde my existing hard drive?

 

Are you getting the message when running TI in Windows or from the rescue cd?

It would also help if you posted the computer model or motherboard chipset, SATA drives or PATA drives, etc.

 

If the drive is a dynamic disk, no you won't be able to use TI.

 

I am running it from windows xp sp2. Compaq Amd Athlon XP2400 2.0 GHZ My existing HD is a Ultra ATA/100 120 GB and i wanna upgrade it to a 350 GB.

 

Also how do I know if it is a Dynamic Drive?

 

Windows Disk Management should show the partition/drive type as a Dymanic Disk instead of Basic.

 

Sorry to sound dumb but where is Windows Disc Management?

 

Control Panel -> Peformance and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management

Then click on Disk Management under the Storage section on the left side.

 

I checked what you said to do and it says nothing about a Dynamic drive

 

Are you doing this from the bootable CD or windows? Is you Ultra ATA drive connected to a separate controller or the mother board?

 

Hello BruinCDC,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

We are sorry for the delayed response.

If you encounter this problem when running Acronis True Image 10.0 Home from within Windows, please download the latest version of Acronis drivers, unpack the archive and install unpacked MSI package.

If the issue persists, please collect some information to let us investigate it thoroughly:

- Replace C:\WINDOWS\system32\snapapi.dll with the one from the downloaded SnapAPI archive;
- Reproduce the issue and collect the log file without closing any application windows (including the error message windows if there are any). The log file will be created at C:\ . The name of the log file will be snapapi [date-time].log

Please create Acronis Report and Windows System Information as it is described in Acronis Help Post.

Then submit a request for technical support. Attach all the collected files and information to your request along with the step-by-step description of the actions taken before the problem appears and the link to this thread. We will investigate the problem and try to provide you with a solution.

If you encounter this problem when running Acronis Bootable Rescue Media, please try booting with "acpi=off noapic" parameter as it is described in Acronis Help Post.

If the issue persists, please collect some information to let us investigate it thoroughly:

Please create Acronis Report and Linux system information (sysinfo.txt) as it is described in Acronis Help Post.

Then submit a request for technical support. Attach all the collected files and information to your request along with the step-by-step description of the actions taken before the problem appears and the link to this thread. We will investigate the problem and try to provide you with a solution.

Thank you.
--
Marat Setdikov