Acronis-I need help: ERROR: Disk not found...

[friskyolive]

I've just left a message at the Acronis message board about this issue; if anyone can help, I'd appreciate. I'm using Acronis Disk Director 10. I'm getting Windows 7 professional 64-bit edition, and don't have enough space to install on my c:\ drive. I'm most likely NOT reformating, so any help is needed.

[bigmac12]

What ru trying to do? Have you thought of buying another drive as they are so cheap? I recomand WD Black to repalce you c:
I use true image. I backed up my Vista, formatted, installed Win 7 64bit. 18 minutes from start to finish! I have 6 drives! 1 external. I am a photographer so I have 3 backups! These days you should have at least 2 drives.

[Skynet]

How can anyone help you if you don't have enough drive space?

Try freeing some up? Disable system restore, get rid of the hibernate file, reduce the size of the swap file, use CCleaner to get rid of some junk, uninstall some programs? Other than that, get a new hard drive.

edit - are you using the bootable CD, or using the application from within Windows?

[friskyolive]

Guy's I have over 120 gb's of free space on my d:\ partition. I am unable to take from my d: to put some on c:\ it's too small. win7 I had read, takes up to 30gb's of space on your active/primary partition-your root drive.. Acronis won't allow me to take space from my d: and put it on c:...This is driving *******g crazy. I tried backing up, safe-mode and nothing works..

[caveman-jim]

run the installer as administrator in Vista sp1 compatibility mode.

Post back if that doesn't help.

However:

Originally Posted by Acronis

Hello all,

Thank you for using Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 and Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 do not support Windows 7. The compatibility will be implemented for the next version of the program, i.e. for Acronis Disk Director Suite 11.0 and Acronis Disk Director Server 11.0.

The exact date of the new version release is unknown.

Thank you.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/4406#comment-6452

Also try downloading the ISO version of the product from Acronis - My Account - Downloads, and using that to resize your partition.

Finally, what OS are running right now? XP x64?

[friskyolive]

I have the ISO, but can't use it-I have no software capable copying it to my dvd/rw rom. I tried using the installer via the acronis boot loader in trying to resize, and no go. Acronis is suggesting this exact thing. I'm resizing c:\ partition for win 7-there is no way acronis knows I'd be installing win 7. And from that point I'm using pcmover to install win 7. Anyway, gotta sleep. Thank you.

[Camster]

I just expanded my C drive with Acronis last week. What I did was create an Acronis Secure Zone on the drive I wanted to take some space from (D). Then I went in an removed the Secure Zone but I told it to give the space back to C instead of D this time. It allowed me to expand C from 22 to 30 gigs with no issues at all. Hope this helps.

[friskyolive]

caveman-jim: I have no option for vista compatibility.

Camster: Where do you find this Acronis Secure Zone? I don't have an option for that-I've got acronis disk director 10 (the newest upgrade)

[Camster]

Originally Posted by friskyolive

caveman-jim: I have no option for vista compatibility.

Camster: Where do you find this Acronis Secure Zone? I don't have an option for that-I've got acronis disk director 10 (the newest upgrade)

Perhaps that's the issue. I am using version 11 of Acronis Trueimage but not the disk director suite. I'm not familiar with it's specific features. I assumed its just an upgraded version of what I'm using.

western Digital offers version 11 free currently. might be worth a look for you.

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp

[caveman-jim]

Originally Posted by friskyolive

I have the ISO, but can't use it-I have no software capable copying it to my dvd/rw rom.

ImgBurn

[friskyolive]

Originally Posted by Camster

Perhaps that's the issue. I am using version 11 of Acronis Trueimage but not the disk director suite. I'm not familiar with it's specific features. I assumed its just an upgraded version of what I'm using.

western Digital offers version 11 free currently. might be worth a look for you.

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp

Thank you very much. If there is no other option, I'm going to use a cracked copy of somee other partition program-I have had enough

[friskyolive]

Originally Posted by caveman-jim

ImgBurn

Thank you, as well!!! This is it-meaning my last recourse.

[friskyolive]

Originally Posted by Camster

I just expanded my C drive with Acronis last week. What I did was create an Acronis Secure Zone on the drive I wanted to take some space from (D). Then I went in an removed the Secure Zone but I told it to give the space back to C instead of D this time. It allowed me to expand C from 22 to 30 gigs with no issues at all. Hope this helps.

Ok, using true image. I'm backing up part of my d: displaying only 37gb's to backup, to a different location (e: ). It's taking a while to complete; wondering what options it gives next. Time will tell. oh sht i just realized I only have 18gigs left on e:...see what happens.

[Camster]

Originally Posted by friskyolive

Ok, using true image. I'm backing up part of my d: displaying only 37gb's to backup, to a different location (e: ). It's taking a while to complete; wondering what options it gives next. Time will tell. oh sht i just realized I only have 18gigs left on e:...see what happens.

Hi,

What I meant by creating a secure zone is it just locks some unused partition space on the drive you wish to shrink say D:\. You don't have to back anything up in it unless you want to. But when you remove the secure zone it will ask you to say what drive to give the free space back to & if you choose C: it will expand it by that amount. If this takes longer than 5 minutes to do I would be surprised. That's about what it took on mine.

I added about 6 gigs to my C drive from 22 to 28 gigs or thereabouts. I created the secure zone & then immediately removed it giving the space back to C: instead. Worked flawlessly. Hope this clarifies this some.

[friskyolive]

Originally Posted by friskyolive

Ok, using true image. I'm backing up part of my d: displaying only 37gb's to backup, to a different location (e: ). It's taking a while to complete; wondering what options it gives next. Time will tell. oh sht i just realized I only have 18gigs left on e:...see what happens.

nevermind, the rest of the space is unallocated... heheh, this is what happens when you spend the weekend strangling yourself.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!! oh oh, ran out of disk space, thankfully, I can use the same partition (d:\) to store backed up files.

[Camster]

Originally Posted by friskyolive

nevermind, the rest of the space is unallocated... heheh, this is what happens when you spend the weekend strangling yourself.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!!!!!! oh oh, ran out of disk space, thankfully, I can use the same partition (d:\) to store backed up files.

You're welcome. I'm thinking you are getting closer to what you want to achieve. I had a similar issue to you where my XP drive was only around 18 gigs (plenty for Win XP) but Win 7 which I currently use likes more than that. My Win 7 drive is sitting around 13 gigs currently but has some room to grow if need be too.

[friskyolive]

Originally Posted by Camster

You're welcome. I'm thinking you are getting closer to what you want to achieve. I had a similar issue to you where my XP drive was only around 18 gigs (plenty for Win XP) but Win 7 which I currently use likes more than that. My Win 7 drive is sitting around 13 gigs currently but has some room to grow if need be too.

well, acronis creatted an error, and I can't bootup...do I reinstall xp, or what? I'm on asus.com sponsered browser; I have no access to windows.. an HBR error developed and can't boot into windows... I'm f'd up.

[caveman-jim]

See link here and option 2 and then look at FIXBOOT and FIXMBR options.

For Vista see here

[Camster]

Originally Posted by friskyolive

well, acronis creatted an error, and I can't bootup...do I reinstall xp, or what? I'm on asus.com sponsered browser; I have no access to windows.. an HBR error developed and can't boot into windows... I'm f'd up.

Cripes I'm sorry to hear that. I've never had a problem doing this & I've done it several times too. But I agree with Caveman Jim a Fixboot or Fix MBR should do the trick. I've done that one back in the day with XP too.

[friskyolive]

Invalid hard drive... I've tried the r command already. Nothing works. I know it's a vague response, but, I've tried every angle.. I couldn't use the dos command, nada.. I'll try deleting all partitions, but I don't think it'll work. I'd have to use acronis recovery or something, but unable to as of now...

[friskyolive]

ok reinstalled; and now to look up all my websites and passwords, then sleep...