Acronis Disk Director

[hethoofd]

Okay, just a note for everyone, just in case: do not try to install Acronis OS Selector (part of Disk Director) from within Windows 7. First, it will not detect your Windows 7 installation. Second, when I disabled it again it completely ruined my Master Boot Record.

It took me more than two hours to recover the Master Boot Record. Acronis and Microsoft made it very difficult for me to fix it The bootmgr.exe was totally gone. Then the Vista (the original boot manager was from Vista) recovery DVD somehow set a Dell Diagnostics partition to boot up and my Vista and 7 installations were seen by the recovery DVD, but bootrec.exe didn't recognize them. I tried everything to fix the MBR with bcdedit.exe and it looked good, but somehow it still booted the Dell partition. I ended up using GParted Live on an MP3 player, lol, since I had no USB stick laying around! I could set the boot flag to my Vista drive again and after that the Vista recovery DVD recognized everything and the Startup Repair finally did it's job!

Sorry, for the details, but if this happens to you, then you know how to fix that stuff now

 

[davehc]

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. To cut a long story short, I looked around and found this: (It's free)

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.

I regret forking out cash for Acronis now!!

 

[SIW2]

HI Davehc,

I use Paragon products, too - but that Express version is very limited.

You may like to check out the free version of Macrium to make images of partitions/drives.

It's small , fast , you can choose compression levels, schedule backups , mount an image and copy & paste back files rather than restore the whole image . It also makes a bootable cd of course.

Macrium Reflect Free Edition - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET Download.com

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[Gilbertpwns]

Ok

If you uninstall it which im guessing you did. Youll get an MBR3 error. There is a fix (lost the link) which you have to burn to a cd. Boot from it and follow instructions. After that (for me) youll have to repair your OS. Just boot up your OS disc and choose repair.

 

[davehc]

Thanks Gilbert. I did it the hard way. I was having so many problems after that, I reformatted the whole computer, repartitioned and reinstalled my OS's.
(can't find that fix thogh - it would be interesting.
Thanks also, SWI2. I'll have a look at that.

 

[Gilbertpwns]

ill look for it

 

[davehc]

I've just given that Macrium a whirl. It seems very good. Only minor complaint was that the default boot disk (Linux)you can make, only gave the restore option. The second choice (bart) was the one I found I needed - both restore and save.

Thanks a lot for the Heads up.

 

[dannet]

I'm having real trouble with Acronis Disk Director. Whatever I do I just can't seem to be able to remove it from my system.

I managed to fix my MBR but I just can't get the program off my system. Every time I try and remove it it tells me it can't detect an OS... I at least managed to disable it now but I just want rid of it.

Does anyone know of a way to successfully uninstall it from Windows 7?

 

[SIW2]

Hi,

Try running this free app. - it's brilliant - don't worry, it works great on 32 and 64 bit systems.

Revo Uninstaller Freeware - Uninstall Software, Remove Programs, Solve uninstall problems

Use the Advanced Scan, like this :



If that still doesn't get rid of it, try system restore to a point before you installed the Disk Selector.

 

[dannet]

Phew finally got rid of it. That thing's been giving me a headache all night.

Had to use a restore point in the end because revo used the Acronis installer which was what was being difficult.

Thanks SIW2 maybe I can finally get on with that install .

 

[SIW2]

Did you use Revo , or system restore?

Have fun with the install.

 

[dannet]

I used system restore in the end because Revo was running the Acronis uninstaller which was what was being difficult .

All sorted now though. Installed the iso but just sorting out my files between partitions now before I have a play with it . Hopefully it will all run smoothly!

Thanks for all your help!

 

[A320]

So, aside from Acronis OS Selector, is it safe/ok to use the suite software (disk director or true image for example) within the Windows 7 environment or would we be better off using some of the other software suggested above.

Currently I am triple booting, primarily I started out with XP and all the Acronis software. Now I want to make the switch to make 7 my primary OS and perhaps get rid of XP in the near future.

 

[RustyFalcon]

I text chatted with an Acronis rep since I have Disk Director on my XP image. I asked about a Win7 version; but one does not exist yet. He indicated that I should be able to install the XP version and it should work.

After reading this thread I am pretty hesitant to do so!

 

[SIW2]

If you want to make a drive image, you may like to check out this thread:

Free Disk Image Program from Easeus. - Vista Forums

 

[TOF]

Anyone know if or when Acronis will issue an update for this software? Or are they going to abandon it? I just bought it about two months ago and have had major issues with the Windows 7 64 bit build. Even trying to wipe a USB drive from Windows 7 is a no no. I have checked their site for information and they are absolutely quiet about what they are doing or where they are going with Acronis Disk Director. I should have tried the trial first I guess.

 

[Kipper]

Disk director suite has not been updated since 2007. Surely they will be releasing a new suite to work with 7. I hope so anyways.

 

[noyb]

Anyone know if or when Acronis will issue an update for this software?

Acronis True Image has just been updated to Home 2010.
It now supports Windows 7 and some other features have been added.
One I think might be interesting is the ability to Boot from a backup image.

I usually Partition my Drives with Acronis True Image as I build them up from a backup Image.
Haven't used Disc Director in a long time.

 

[A320]

Speaking of Acronis maybe someone can answer this.

I am triple booting 7, XP, & Leopard.

I started out initially with XP and have been using Acronis products to do all my partitioning and HD tuning plus the included OS selector for bootup.

My question is will I have a problem if I use Acronis within XP to resize my partition for 7?

My current partitions are in this order from the beginning of the disc:

'XP' 150GB Primary --> '7' 50GB Primary --> 'Leopard' 50GB Primary --> Data 750GB Logical

I want to shrink the 'XP' partition and add the excess over to the '7' partition. As you can see they are side by side.

 

[zigzag3143]

A why not update to current acronis? It works wonderfully on XP,vista, and win 7

Ken