Hey guys,
Installed Acronis True Image.
Tried taking backup for my OS Partition for first time and it gave this error.
Restarted system couple of time still same issue.
Any suggestions?
Also should i use other substitutes like Norton Ghost or any others.
Problem Solved.. Nevermind
Lol 
You might have terminated some service which is run by acronis when ur pc starts.
lol yeah ..i was disabling useless services…accidently disabled services of nod32 and acronis too 
btw one doubt related to Image backup..
Now i took a backup of my OS. size was some 4 GB including 1.5GB pagefile and i chose MAXIMUM compression. So now its reduced to 1.5 GB
So i can apply restore this backup “even if i am using OS from same parition” right ?
So will it restore in command line or what..?
Acronis has a tool to make a boot cd with Acronis Image on it… i would suggest installing Acronis Disk Director too, then make the bootable cd from within Acronis.. and include Disk Director and Image.
so u mean to say the backup i made through Acronis True Image is useless now ?
Or there is any way if i can make it bootable.. coz i have messed up my OS a lot experimenting overnight after that..And i could really use that backup..
No no… Acronis has a boot CD. The backup itself is not bootable. You need to get the Acronis boot cd from somewhere (or make it yourself) and then use that to restore the backup you’ve made.
I just got Acronis Disk Director.. I guess i can make a boot cd with it…
or if i want to download it..how can i ?
Make the Acronis True Image Boot CD from this option from your installation in Windows.
Thanx easy…will try that..!!
The image comes to around 54 MB…
Also i have saved my backup in my non os drive..so now i guess i can restore the backup i made with this boot cd..
there you go
Quick closing on this thread..
Do all these Acronis True Image / Norton Ghost / Drive Image. are totally common or any one of these have better features over the other..?
I prefer Acronis, the Image and Disk program integrate well together, and I have never had problems with corrupted images. I like that you can just add incremental changes to the images rather than having to make new back ups every time you want to update.
One of the other things I love is… I made an image of a clean, fresh installed OS, boot only partition, with all my drivers and major software installed.. this is awesome if you want to do a clean install without having to do all the work. (It also saves all of your activation info… so you won’t have to re-activate or mess about with MS)
The Boot Disk tools are identical to the windows versions and boot flawlessly. I am a huge fan of Acronis and have used them for a few years. I tried Norton and a lot of other software, but found them to be too bloated.
Thanx.. That sums up my search 