Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? The problem is that when I try to boot-up in normal mode, Disk Director tries to perform its operation and it seriously fails every time. Thanks a lot, best regards, Robert.
Guest Don Phillipson Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:6a9cbad2-680c-4707-9f46-0c4c71eb52b0@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? In Safe Mode you can uninstal this software via / Control Panel / Add/Remove. Before doing so, it would help to delete all contents of all TEMP folders e.g. c:/Temp/*.* and c:/Windows/Temp/*.* Your problems may be caused by an incomplete installation of Acronis software, that tries to complete on your next bootup (by calling files Acronis wrote to TEMP folders.) Post results here (good or bad.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)
Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC On 20 Apr, 18:52, "Don Phillipson" <e...@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote: > "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in messagenews:6a9cbad2-680c-4707-9f46-0c4c71eb52b0@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? > > In Safe Mode you can uninstal this software via / Control Panel / > Add/Remove. > Before doing so, it would help to delete all contents of all TEMP folders > e.g. c:/Temp/*.* and c:/Windows/Temp/*.* > Your problems may be caused by an incomplete installation of Acronis > software, that tries to complete on your next bootup (by calling files > Acronis wrote to TEMP folders.) > > Post results here (good or bad.) > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) Thanks very much for the information. Actually, after posting my Acronis problem message, I decided that I quickly wanted to get up-and- running again, so I decided to format my HDD again, and start over. However, I've bought three Acronis products, one of them being Disk Director 10, and I need to use it on Win98SE, so your info will prove useful if it badly fails again. I have just downloaded the latest patch from Acronis, and I will patch my copy before attempting to do a partition copy again. Thank you, best regards, Robert.
Guest Brian A. Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:697ee9cb-f2f4-4a5d-aa2b-65921c230d4a@a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... On 20 Apr, 18:52, "Don Phillipson" <e...@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote: > "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in > messagenews:6a9cbad2-680c-4707-9f46-0c4c71eb52b0@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... > > > I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? > > In Safe Mode you can uninstal this software via / Control Panel / > Add/Remove. > Before doing so, it would help to delete all contents of all TEMP folders > e.g. c:/Temp/*.* and c:/Windows/Temp/*.* > Your problems may be caused by an incomplete installation of Acronis > software, that tries to complete on your next bootup (by calling files > Acronis wrote to TEMP folders.) > > Post results here (good or bad.) > -- > Don Phillipson > Carlsbad Springs > (Ottawa, Canada) Thanks very much for the information. Actually, after posting my Acronis problem message, I decided that I quickly wanted to get up-and- running again, so I decided to format my HDD again, and start over. However, I've bought three Acronis products, one of them being Disk Director 10, and I need to use it on Win98SE, so your info will prove useful if it badly fails again. I have just downloaded the latest patch from Acronis, and I will patch my copy before attempting to do a partition copy again. If one of the products you purchased is TrueImage, use the Copy function in it to create a clone instead of using DD. You also didn't mention if you were backing up to a separate hard drive or not as it's not wise to backup to the same HD your creating the copy of. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 20, 2008 Posted April 20, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC On 20 Apr, 21:14, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote: > "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in messagenews:697ee9cb-f2f4-4a5d-aa2b-65921c230d4a@a23g2000hsc.googlegroups.com... > On 20 Apr, 18:52, "Don Phillipson" <e...@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote: > > > > > > > "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in > > messagenews:6a9cbad2-680c-4707-9f46-0c4c71eb52b0@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups..com... > > > > I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > > > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > > > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > > > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > > > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > > > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? > > > In Safe Mode you can uninstal this software via / Control Panel / > > Add/Remove. > > Before doing so, it would help to delete all contents of all TEMP folders > > e.g. c:/Temp/*.* and c:/Windows/Temp/*.* > > Your problems may be caused by an incomplete installation of Acronis > > software, that tries to complete on your next bootup (by calling files > > Acronis wrote to TEMP folders.) > > > Post results here (good or bad.) > > -- > > Don Phillipson > > Carlsbad Springs > > (Ottawa, Canada) > > Thanks very much for the information. Actually, after posting my > Acronis problem message, I decided that I quickly wanted to get up-and- > running again, so I decided to format my HDD again, and start over. > However, I've bought three Acronis products, one of them being Disk > Director 10, and I need to use it on Win98SE, so your info will prove > useful if it badly fails again. I have just downloaded the latest > patch from Acronis, and I will patch my copy before attempting to do a > partition copy again. > > If one of the products you purchased is TrueImage, use the Copy function in it > to create a clone instead of using DD. You also didn't mention if you were > backing up to a separate hard drive or not as it's not wise to backup to the > same HD your creating the copy of. > > -- > > Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience } > Conflicts start where information lacks.http://basconotw.mvps.org/ > > Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - Products purchased were True Image versions 9 and 11, and also DD (v. 10). I will try using TI's copy function next time! If my (rather bad) memory serves me correctly, I think I was trying to make a backup of one partition to another partition on the same physical HDD. Next time, I will attempt to get my external HDD to be correctly attached to my Win98SE box, and then perform the copy function to this external HDD. Thanks a lot, from Robert.
Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 21, 2008 Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC On 20 Apr, 17:13, rpgs rock dvds <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? The > problem is that when I try to boot-up in normal mode, Disk Director > tries to perform its operation and it seriously fails every time. > > Thanks a lot, best regards, Robert. Problem solved! I booted-up my PC using the Acronis True Image (version 9 for Win98SE) CD-ROM, and used it's back-up function. I was very pleased that TI was able to see that I had an external HDD connected to the PC via the USB port. This might have been a problem, because the Freecom external HDD which I bought (which wasn't cheap) didn't have any Win98SE drivers - Windows98SE could see that a new piece of hardware had been added to the system, but could not locate any suitable drivers for it. However, booting-up using the TI CD-ROM nicely side-stepped this issue.
Guest Brian A. Posted April 21, 2008 Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:335c15c4-a4c4-4c34-b935-aa0e9556c5d4@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... On 20 Apr, 17:13, rpgs rock dvds <rpgsrockd...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? The > problem is that when I try to boot-up in normal mode, Disk Director > tries to perform its operation and it seriously fails every time. > > Thanks a lot, best regards, Robert. Problem solved! I booted-up my PC using the Acronis True Image (version 9 for Win98SE) CD-ROM, and used it's back-up function. I was very pleased that TI was able to see that I had an external HDD connected to the PC via the USB port. This might have been a problem, because the Freecom external HDD which I bought (which wasn't cheap) didn't have any Win98SE drivers - Windows98SE could see that a new piece of hardware had been added to the system, but could not locate any suitable drivers for it. However, booting-up using the TI CD-ROM nicely side-stepped this issue. Glad to hear you sorted out the issue. DO NOT forget to create a Bootable Rescue Disk even though the ATI disk you have is bootable, it's always a wise choice to have a backup disk in the event one fails. -- Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Windows Desktop User Experience } Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
Guest Bob Harris Posted April 21, 2008 Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC I use Acronis TrueImage and love it, but have never tried Disk Director. However, the on-line manual says that verison 10 of Disk Director is for NT, 2000, XP, and Vista. Thus, installing on 98 is probably not a good idea. Ditto for some versions of TrueImage, certainly version 11. In any event, Acronis products have an option to make a bootable CD, which can be used for recovery, partition changes, etc outside of Windows, or when Windows is not working. So, install Disk Director on a PC running XP (or Vista) and make the bootable CD, then run from the CD to change paritions on your win98 PC. The bootable CD actually runs LINUX, in case you were interested, and is usually compatible with Intel-based PC and clones thereof. "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:6a9cbad2-680c-4707-9f46-0c4c71eb52b0@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... >I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new > Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the > whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this > operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can > now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. > > Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can > boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? The > problem is that when I try to boot-up in normal mode, Disk Director > tries to perform its operation and it seriously fails every time. > > Thanks a lot, best regards, Robert.
Guest Bill in Co. Posted April 21, 2008 Posted April 21, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC Or just buy the product new in its box, and it's already on a bootable CD. Bob Harris wrote: > I use Acronis TrueImage and love it, but have never tried Disk Director. > > However, the on-line manual says that verison 10 of Disk Director is for > NT, > 2000, XP, and Vista. Thus, installing on 98 is probably not a good idea. > Ditto for some versions of TrueImage, certainly version 11. > > In any event, Acronis products have an option to make a bootable CD, which > can be used for recovery, partition changes, etc outside of Windows, or > when > Windows is not working. So, install Disk Director on a PC running XP (or > Vista) and make the bootable CD, then run from the CD to change paritions > on > your win98 PC. The bootable CD actually runs LINUX, in case you were > interested, and is usually compatible with Intel-based PC and clones > thereof. > > "rpgs rock dvds" <rpgsrockdvds@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message > news:6a9cbad2-680c-4707-9f46-0c4c71eb52b0@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com... >> I thought I'd install Acronis Disk Director (version 10) on to my new >> Windows 98SE PC. I wanted to make a backup of my HDD by copying the >> whole C:\ partition. When Disk Director rebooted to perform this >> operation, I get a Windows Protection Fault, and the only way I can >> now use my computer is if I boot into safe mode. >> >> Please can someone tell me how to remove Disk Director so that I can >> boot-up my PC normally, without needing to go into safe mode? The >> problem is that when I try to boot-up in normal mode, Disk Director >> tries to perform its operation and it seriously fails every time. >> >> Thanks a lot, best regards, Robert.
Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC On 21 Apr, 21:31, "Brian A." <gonefish'n@afarawaylake> wrote: > Glad to hear you sorted out the issue. DO NOT forget to create a Bootable > Rescue Disk even though the ATI disk you have is bootable, it's always a wise > choice to have a backup disk in the event one fails. Yes, I'm definitely going to do this. One of the very first things I tried to do when I was building my Win98 boxes, was to make some bootable floppy discs, which I've been using ever since. However, it would make a lot of sense to have a much more powerful bootable CD, and so I will investigate this aspect of A TI. Thanks for the tip. Best regards, Robert.
Guest rpgs rock dvds Posted April 22, 2008 Posted April 22, 2008 Re: Acronis Disk Director has caused a serious problem on my PC On 21 Apr, 21:32, "Bob Harris" <rharris270[sPAM]@hotmail.com> wrote: > I use Acronis TrueImage and love it, but have never tried Disk Director. > > However, the on-line manual says that verison 10 of Disk Director is for NT, > 2000, XP, and Vista. Thus, installing on 98 is probably not a good idea.. > Ditto for some versions of TrueImage, certainly version 11. > > In any event, Acronis products have an option to make a bootable CD, which > can be used for recovery, partition changes, etc outside of Windows, or when > Windows is not working. So, install Disk Director on a PC running XP (or > Vista) and make the bootable CD, then run from the CD to change paritions on > your win98 PC. The bootable CD actually runs LINUX, in case you were > interested, and is usually compatible with Intel-based PC and clones > thereof. > Please note that regarding the use of Acronis Disk Director, please see this link - http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/diskdirector/comparison.html Now look at the bottom of the screen, and there's a "tick symbol" next to the Windows 98 supported operating systems. I used this webpage to ascertain that this was the product I needed to get for my Win98 requirements. It installs fine, but I did notice it crashed immediately when run. I ran it again, and it was fine, and hasn't crashed since. I did then register my copy on their website and this allowed me access to their updated patched copy. This ran fine on Win98 first time, no crashes. Re: True Image, I purposefully bought both versions 9 and 11. 9 = Win98 supported ok! 11 = supported XP ok! (with extra functionality from earlier version 9) Best regards, Robert.
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