
If you are not able to create Linux system information (sysinfo.txt) then please do the following: Please create Linux system information (sysinfo.txt) as it is described in Acronis Help Post. If the issue persists, please collect some information to let us investigate it thoroughly: Please try booting with "acpi=off noapic" parameter as it is described in Acronis Help Post. I still have my original damaged hard drive in an external casing in the hope I can try to fix that later but fingers crossed I may not need to now.Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software. My laptop is functioning normally, all programs etc are working fine (as far as I can tell so far) and everything looks back to normal. Restored the most recent image prior to the BSOD issues Plugged in my external hard drive (not the damaged original 80gb hard drive but the external hard drive I had the last image saved to).ĥ.
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Installed Acronis version 8 on my "new" 250 gb hard drive (which was installed using the original recovery CD for the laptop so had all the appropriate drivers etc).Ĥ. So if it all went wrong I wouldn't lose anything.ġ. I decided to take the risk ONLY because the original hard drive didn't need to be touched to do this AND because I had the image and all my files backed up on 2 separate external hard drives. Well it took all day but it worked! My laptop is back up and running and Acronis worked a dream! Thanks again for all the help and sorry if my posts are confusing!
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It came with one of my external hard drives so all the set up files are on the hard drive (in fact I think I did originally make the bootable CD but failed to bring it with me and have no idea where it is now) so I can easily install it on the new hard drive - which I have done.īasically what I'm in the process of testing right now is creating the bootable CD from the new hard drive and then restoring the image of my old laptop (which was created a week before the BSOD problems) on to the new hard drive.
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I am rather naive when it comes to Acronis as aside from making back up images I didn't really fully understand the need for a bootable CD to restore them (stupid I know but it was free software when I got it and I didn't fully appreciate it's usefullness.

It has all the drivers installed as thankfully I brought the recovery CD with me to Indonesia (phew!). So now I have a laptop with an empty 250gb hard drive. I also have a surge protector on top of that. With regards to power - yes you're right power is an issue, but we have voltage stabilisers in the village where we work which seem to be ok and no one else's laptop/computer has suffered any ill effects. In the meantime though I need to be able to use my laptop so I'm wanting to try Acronis. I have kept the old one which caused the problem in the hope I may be able to fix it if I can take it to someone with a better knowledge of these sort of issues. I wasn't keen on that so I asked them to install a new hard drive. They tested everything as well and concluded that it must be a OS related issue (or a software issue that wasn't obvious) as when they put in a new hard drive there were no probs, and so the best option was to reinstall the OS to fix it. So finally I sent the unit to a Toshiba service centre in the capital. system restores, registry checking and cleaning, changing and testing the RAM, reinstalling the chipset and drivers. I tried all the fixes I could manage alone - e.g. I'd not installed any new software and have up to date antivirus.

It was fine 6 weeks ago and then suddenly when I plugged in a USB stick I started getting the BSOD (the stick was fine on all other computers and all external hard drives / memory sticks produce same effect on my laptop). Re: the BSOD - I know it seems unlikely but I don't know what else is causing the problem. I would really appreciate some help on this as I'm currently in the middle of fieldwork in a remote indonesian island and there's not really anyone I can ask to help me here! Will I be able to restore my old hard drive to this new one? I can't access the old hard drive to make a bootable CD because that one doesn't work properly. I want to restore that to this new hard drive but I can't. I have an Acronic image of the old hard drive on an external hard disk made before the problems arose. So I now have a new 250GB SATA hard drive in my laptop.

Rather than doing that and losing all my programs (some of which I no longer have the cd's for) I decided to simply get a new hard drive installed. I have taken the laptop to a service centre and they couldn't do anything except reinstall the OS.

I am trying to restore my hard drive using Acronis true image version 8 but am totally stuck.īasically my hard drive (an 80gb SATA drive) has problems (windows xp is corrupted).
