Msg: Re: OT: re Acronis & Win-10

Hi Kari,

You should be able to avoid the issue you mentioned by using

an Acronis bootable CD (or maybe it's up to a DVD, these days

?). That sets up a separate environment, much as with a

Linux live disk. Windows itself is not running then. You come

in from outside -- no locked files. I wouldn't run any of these

programs from inside Windows. If your rig in question is one

of the very latest that is seemingly being built with no optical

drive, on the -- in my view mistaken -- belief that these are

now obsolete, you can always temporarily attach an external

USB DVD drive. I've collected various utility / diagnostic /

repair collections like Hiren's, or the regular Sergei Strelec

releases, which these days encourage you to use something like

'Rufus' to get them onto a bootable flashdrive. The thing is,

I tend to _some_ machines that don't seem to want to boot up

from a stick, no matter what settings you set in the BIOS.

BUT, I find that pretty much every computer I ever run into

*will* boot a bootable CD or DVD. So, not obsolete at all !

In regard to the project I referred to, that old rig was built by

a consultant who is long out of the picture. Whatever XP install

disk he used is lost to history. Over time, I must have collected

three or more *other* miscellaneous XP install disks, or ISOs of

them, from which they could be reconstituted . . . but these

things are not interchangeable. Or are they ? And I'd have to

look up how to go about doing an over-top-of "repair install" for
XP.

Jordan

On Monday, December 9, 2019, 12:51:12 AM PST, Kari Eveli <lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Jordan,

I am currently using Acronis 2013 for my Win7 machines, my son has a
newer edition with Win 10 as the operating system. My setup has worked
fine, but the Win 10 seems more problematic. I have not fully
investigated the reasons. However, I find that running Acronis at the
beginning of a normal Windows session is the best policy. The at
shutdown option does not always work.

>The end result was that the new computer would not boot --
*except in Safe Mode, which is not very useful.* So, WHAT .
. . drivers ? Then I ran out of time, and need to revisit this.

If you have the Windows install disk, you could use it to try to repair
the installation. You may need to run the repair utility several times
in order to get a working setup.

Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxxxx

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> I'm posting this here since I know we have some current or
> past Acronis users here, including Phillip White, Paul Breeze,
> and Kari. I was looking to confirm or dispute some reports
> I've seen that recent years' Acronis versions had problems
> working properly with Windows 10. What has your experience
> been, if any ?
>
>
> Jordan