Acronis Issue

g4m3rof1337

g4m3rof1337

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I'm trying to disk clone my 500GB drive, which has about 60GB free, onto another freshly formatted 500GB drive. When I go to select the target drive, it processes, then comes up with an error.

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Any ideas?
 
You shouldn't post multiple threads about your one HD failing, just my opinion.

When you create an image you need sufficient free space since the clone is copied to a temp folder first and then compressed into the file that is in the end the image file.

Also, there is no way in hell you want to create an image off your current drive, especially if there are issues. Image files are best done at the base, once everything is configured and installed you want at the base of your image. It really isn't meant to be a user data back up solution.

So, lets start from the beginning....

If you boot into Vista's command console, which I haven't really needed to do ever since the only Vista machine I have ever had has been my desktop at home and my test PC at work.

So, I ended up googling the command lines for you....

This is what you have to do:

**Do note that you must replace X: with whatever drive letter Vista assigns your optical drive, it should tell you when you hit the command line**

1) Boot off your Vista DVD and pray that there is a copy of bootsect.exe on the DVD. It seems that Microsoft, in their genius ways, removed it from later pressings of the Vista installer DVDs.

2) Once booted from your DVD choose the recovery option and choose the command line option.

3) Once at the command line try these commands, they are separate commands:

Code: 
bootrec.exe /fixmbr
x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 all /force

These rebuild the master boot record (MBR) which contains data that the boot loader for Vista will need to read to boot Vista in the first place. If that kicks off with no errors then go on to step 4, if it errors out then you probably either have a drive that is failing or your filesystem is so corrupted you need to wipe and reload.

4) Now that we rebuilt the MBR, we can rebuild the boot loader program that Vista uses.

Code: 
del C:\boot\bcd
bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd

Again, each line is a separate command run them one at a time. If you got this far with absolute zero errors then it has been successfully rebuilt. If you have a later version of the Vista installer DVD Microsoft left those files out, because apparently no one would ever need to use them:rolleyes:

At this point in time you might as well also run a check disk to make sure that the file system doesn't have any issues.

Code: 
chkdsk /r

Now if everything goes through just fine you can shutdown the machine by typing either exit or reboot at the command line, and it should reboot, or maybe it is shutdown -r.

Now, if you want to create a master image of your OS and Applications you can do so, but I would leave all user data off of the image and dump it somewhere else.

USE THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK
 
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Well this was a new issue, so I thought it should get it's own thread.


Anyways, what if my version doesn't have bootsect? And I'm not entirely sure my drive i corrupted, I think it's just Windows, like I said before, I can access the files and everything fine when it's a secondary drive. Also, there is no way I'll be able to make a disk clone at this time?




Thanks.
 
Alright, what do you recommend I do? I need pretty much everything on that drive, granted, I can reinstall software and games, so would I be better off manually backing up what I need, and reinstall?
 
It is vista right? All user data is under /Users/your_user_name so I would grab that first and if you want to make an image of all your apps and OS I would do it at the beginning with some things to consider first. Like you don't want to image any restore points, that is just a waste of space so when you create a master image of your PC you want it to be clean. If that makes sense.

If you just copy your home folder you should have all your data, unless you were putting data in a different location?

If you don't have those commands on your vista DVD you can try to download them and add them. Just another annoyance how MS doesn't include all the features they should in a $300 OS.
 
tlarkin said:
It is vista right? All user data is under /Users/your_user_name so I would grab that first and if you want to make an image of all your apps and OS I would do it at the beginning with some things to consider first. Like you don't want to image any restore points, that is just a waste of space so when you create a master image of your PC you want it to be clean. If that makes sense.

If you just copy your home folder you should have all your data, unless you were putting data in a different location?

If you don't have those commands on your vista DVD you can try to download them and add them. Just another annoyance how MS doesn't include all the features they should in a $300 OS.
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Alright, I don't think I have any restore points, since I tried restoring it in recovery mode, and nothing came up. Should I try the commands first, and then if that doesn't work, manually back up what I need?



Thanks.
 
g4m3rof1337 said:
Alright, I don't think I have any restore points, since I tried restoring it in recovery mode, and nothing came up. Should I try the commands first, and then if that doesn't work, manually back up what I need?



Thanks.
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Always do back ups 1st, then everything else second! I would give it a try.
 
Well after finding out Acronis apparently auto-compresses the backup image, I decided to just keep my drive the way it is, and install Vista on my drive that I was going to use for backup, and then just access the other drive whenever I need it.
 
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