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There is a problem with Acronis Disk Director - avoid it.
If you installed it already,
Try Greg's suggestion of rewriting mbr.
Here is one example:
I can confirm that there is a problem. I installed director, I had already Acronis True image. I thought little of it until I decided to make an updated image. I used the pure image autoboot disk, and it said it would take 6 hours (after sitting doing nothing for about 5 minutes. From my previous 30 to 40 minutes, this was ridiculous. Even after uninstaling Director, and reinstalling True Image, I found heavy delays in some areas of my computer...
I was having so many problems after that, I reformatted the whole computer, repartitioned and reinstalled my OS's.
I regret forking out cash for Acronis now!!
To cut a long story short, I looked around and found this: (It's free)
Paragon Free Drive Backup Express - disk backup software
I found it superb. For example, it can back up Vista, a mammoth installation, in 40 minutes. You can also make an autoboot disk - a very good fallback feature.