New Notebook... Problems w/ Acronis TI and Office 2000

HoseB · SirTweaksabit Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 260

1. Acronis True Image can make an image, but won't boot when trying to restore... it starts to boot, then the screen goes dark with no message.

2. MS Office 2000 won't run.... either fails to launch application or locks up when a file is loaded. The OS is XP MCE... anyone having the same problem?

2A. Anyone having trouble running *any* version of Office on MCE?

(I've got Office running just fine on XP Pro and Home rigs.)

TIA

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HoseB · SirTweaksabit Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 260

Update...

Did a fresh install of OS and cleared the Office problem...

Acronis still won't boot, however....

Xal · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

So you are making a disk image and then reloading it? If you are having issues with booting after imaging the drive, make sure your page file is not set to read only. I had that happen to me once.... I removed the attribute from all files and all was good. Just a thought.
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HoseB · SirTweaksabit Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 260

Xal · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:15 am Post subject:

lol, yeah, I meant boot from the restored image. I wrote the last reply at 3am before I went to bed

To check read only status you would need to boot into windows from a different drive. Then once in windows go to windows explorer, go to the restored drive, select all files, hit properties then uncheck the read only box. Hit apply, be sure to apply to all files and subfolders (windows has some files read only deliberately but it will reset read only status where needed when you boot).

Hope that helps.
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Xal · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 2:19 am Post subject:

Oh, and needless to say, if your image only contains the OS then there is no point going to all the effort of removing the read only property. If it has a large amount of data and apps you need then its worth while trying. It may or may not work but I figured it might so posted the info for you anyway. Otherwise you could restore the image then just do a "repair" installation of windows. Rather than overwrite all files, treat it like an upgrade, if plan a: fails then that should work.

Sorry about the double.
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