Comments on: How To Make A Full PC Backup And Restore After Hard Drive Failure http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/ Ripping up the rule book whilst drinking a smooth pint of reality. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:35:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: eBay is still THE place for collectibles | Stuart Turnbull's Blog http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-75428 eBay is still THE place for collectibles | Stuart Turnbull's Blog Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:51:29 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-75428 [...] Well, coincidentally, Dan suffered a similar fate and decided to post a step by step guide to protecting yourself in the event of a hard drive failure and you can read it here. [...] [...] Well, coincidentally, Dan suffered a similar fate and decided to post a step by step guide to protecting yourself in the event of a hard drive failure and you can read it here. [...]

]]> By: Dan http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-72452 Dan Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:51:28 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-72452 No problem Gary, glad you like the blog :-) Good look with your problem, let us know if you manage to find a solution. No problem Gary, glad you like the blog :-)

Good look with your problem, let us know if you manage to find a solution.

]]> By: Gary Dorsey http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-72451 Gary Dorsey Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:34:57 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-72451 Thanks Dan, Well, it's definately not an overheating problem because I can start it right back up with the F key to use the partitioned D: drive to restore the system OS. I guess I can give Acronis tech support a try but from what I have been reading on the blogs their Tech support leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe a few new IT techs that needed to learn the product or a turnover in personnel. I do know I am not going to try Acronis again until I get some kind of an answer on the solution or what causes it unless I have an alternate method of disaster recovery. It wouldnt be so bad if it failed to restore but it destroys the bootable OS leaving a bricked computer until the partition and MBR are restored with the recovery sector of HP recovery and I hate having to rip out all the bloat afterwards and reinstall everything. Thanks again. You have a very nice online Blog. It impressed me with the presentation and the attention to detail. Thanks Dan,
Well, it’s definately not an overheating problem because I can start it right back up with the F key to use the partitioned D: drive to restore the system OS. I guess I can give Acronis tech support a try but from what I have been reading on the blogs their Tech support leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe a few new IT techs that needed to learn the product or a turnover in personnel. I do know I am not going to try Acronis again until I get some kind of an answer on the solution or what causes it unless I have an alternate method of disaster recovery. It wouldnt be so bad if it failed to restore but it destroys the bootable OS leaving a bricked computer until the partition and MBR are restored with the recovery sector of HP recovery and I hate having to rip out all the bloat afterwards and reinstall everything.
Thanks again. You have a very nice online Blog. It impressed me with the presentation and the attention to detail.

]]> By: Dan http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-72448 Dan Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:18:26 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-72448 Hi Gary, If it keeps powering off, maybe it's an issue with the laptop over heating rather than Acronis? If you haven't already done so, you'd probably best getting in touch with Acronis tech support and see if they've ever come across anything similar. Hi Gary,
If it keeps powering off, maybe it’s an issue with the laptop over heating rather than Acronis?

If you haven’t already done so, you’d probably best getting in touch with Acronis tech support and see if they’ve ever come across anything similar.

]]> By: Gary Dorsey http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-72440 Gary Dorsey Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:23:01 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-72440 Hi Dan, Yes, I used the boot up media and booted up from the restore media CD made from within Acronis. I dont recall if I used the quiet no acpi mode or not and not sure how I would tell if that is the problem or not. I have used it sucessfully on my two home desktop computers to do restorations when things went bad but with this HP notebook it shuts the powers off to the computer just a few minutes into the recovery. This leaves the computer in an unbootable state with no chance to recover my data or Operating system after having destroyed the partition giving the blue screen of death. There is some incompatibility with the standard windows Vista HP notebook which I would like to remedy to keep being able to depend on Acronis. The tough part of it is testing it since it isnt fun restoring everything from scratch. Gary Hi Dan,
Yes, I used the boot up media and booted up from the restore media CD made from within Acronis. I dont recall if I used the quiet no acpi mode or not and not sure how I would tell if that is the problem or not. I have used it sucessfully on my two home desktop computers to do restorations when things went bad but with this HP notebook it shuts the powers off to the computer just a few minutes into the recovery. This leaves the computer in an unbootable state with no chance to recover my data or Operating system after having destroyed the partition giving the blue screen of death. There is some incompatibility with the standard windows Vista HP notebook which I would like to remedy to keep being able to depend on Acronis. The tough part of it is testing it since it isnt fun restoring everything from scratch.

Gary

]]> By: Dan http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-72437 Dan Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:21:48 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-72437 Hi Gary, Unfortunately I'm not really an Acronis expert - I just used it when my machine went belly up and it worked great, so thought I'd share it with my readers :-) Have you tried using the Acronis boot up media, so it boots straight into Acronis rather than your OS: http://www.acronis.com/company/inpress/2007/03-15-boot-loader-2.html Hi Gary,
Unfortunately I’m not really an Acronis expert – I just used it when my machine went belly up and it worked great, so thought I’d share it with my readers :-)

Have you tried using the Acronis boot up media, so it boots straight into Acronis rather than your OS:

http://www.acronis.com/company/inpress/2007/03-15-boot-loader-2.html

]]> By: Gary Dorsey http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-72432 Gary Dorsey Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:50:08 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-72432 I used Acronis 2009 and then Acronis Home, and Acronis 2010 and when I tried to restore from the CD after a failure on my HP Pavillion G60-120US running Windows Vista Home the restore started and within a few minutes the computer power was shut off leaving my computer as a paper weight and no longer bootable. Any ideas as to why this happened? I liked the acronis interface but after two occasions of this happening I am a little gun shy to depend on it again. Thank you for a great post of how acronis is supposed to work.... I used Acronis 2009 and then Acronis Home, and Acronis 2010 and when I tried to restore from the CD after a failure on my HP Pavillion G60-120US running Windows Vista Home the restore started and within a few minutes the computer power was shut off leaving my computer as a paper weight and no longer bootable.

Any ideas as to why this happened? I liked the acronis interface but after two occasions of this happening I am a little gun shy to depend on it again.

Thank you for a great post of how acronis is supposed to work….

]]> By: Dan (el_passo) http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-66702 Dan (el_passo) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:24:03 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-66702 I've used online backup services in the past, but upload speeds aren't matched by peoples storage needs. People are storing more and more on their computer, but upload speeds on standard Broadband connections are no higher than 1Mbps. So to upload even 100 GB of data to an online backup service would take an eternity. If you then have to do a full restore you need to download the data from the server, using 100 GB as a very low example, that'll take you over most providers monthly download limit, so you'd end up paying more for your broadband connection. So I think the cheapest and quickest route would be to get an external hard drive, and back everything up to that. Then if things do go badly wrong, you can be back up and running in hours rather than days. I’ve used online backup services in the past, but upload speeds aren’t matched by peoples storage needs.

People are storing more and more on their computer, but upload speeds on standard Broadband connections are no higher than 1Mbps. So to upload even 100 GB of data to an online backup service would take an eternity.

If you then have to do a full restore you need to download the data from the server, using 100 GB as a very low example, that’ll take you over most providers monthly download limit, so you’d end up paying more for your broadband connection.

So I think the cheapest and quickest route would be to get an external hard drive, and back everything up to that. Then if things do go badly wrong, you can be back up and running in hours rather than days.

]]> By: Johnny http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-66661 Johnny Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:03:11 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-66661 I htink is easier to use http://www.dmailer.com/dmailer-backup.html to backup and restore your data . - Backup your data and store it safely online on their internet storage - Format your computer and install other OS or what you want to do - Download your backup and restore it. I htink is easier to use http://www.dmailer.com/dmailer-backup.html to backup and restore your data .
- Backup your data and store it safely online on their internet storage
- Format your computer and install other OS or what you want to do
- Download your backup and restore it.

]]> By: Dan (el_passo) http://www.elpassoblog.com/how-to-make-a-full-pc-backup-and-restore-after-hard-drive-failure/comment-page-1/#comment-62801 Dan (el_passo) Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:28:02 +0000 http://www.elpassoblog.com/?p=309#comment-62801 No problem! No problem!

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