LarryD said:I wrote to the author of MbrFix, Kåre Smith, and thanked him. I also asked him
Here's the key part of his reply:
If we have any brave souls that would like to test that, please let us know how it works out.
whoppsrus5254 said:1. Go to windows Device Manager
2. Click "view" and select "show hidden devices"
3. Scroll down to "storage volumes"
4. Click on the plus to expand.
5. Click on each one listed and right click and uninstall. (you will get a message on some staying to reboot before it takes effect. Select no until you do them all.)
6. Reboot.
7. Wait till windows automatically reinstalls devices. Will prompt to reboot again.
8 Reboot.
Ralf_CT said:Ok, I did as whoppsrus5254 suggested and scrolled to 'Storage Volumes' in Device Manager. One of the 'Generic Volume' labels had garbled text behind it. I proceeded and uninstalled this one, the others refused to uninstall. There was also a 'Serial' entry further up with an exclamation mark next to it. I uninstalled that as well.
During the first reboot the three partitions on my 400GB USB drive were not visible, they did however return on the second reboot and the exclamation mark also disappeared.
However, the 'A' drive still gets checked intermittently once Windows has booted, and my USB stick is no longer picked up (the light lights briefly, that's it) and Windows Explorer seems to freeze until I remove the stick.
As I write this GBM Pro. v.8 is backing up, Retrospect 7.5 also backs up without incident. Thank you whoppsrus5254, I appreciate your help as hundreds of others do.
I just wanted to thank the people on this forum who came up with the fix for this problem. I used the BartPE/fixMBR route and it worked perfectly. I am furious with Acronis and Microsoft (what's new?) for not being able to address this problem as effectively as the wonderful people on this forum. There is so much mis-information out there - thank God I decided to check this site.
Wondering, though, if this problem is actually addressed after the clone. I can't remember but I'm thinking that perhaps Windows mentioned something about new hardware being installed and I might have ignored it. It might have been trying to rewrite the MBS right after I cloned the drive.
If so, then it's my bad. I intend to talk to Acronis on Monday. I'll let you know.
Again, my thanks.
Mark
BACKGROUND DETAILS: Cloned fully functioning 18-month-old hard drive to avoid any future problems ahead of time. Installed new drive - worked fine. Tried to run Mozy two days later to update incremental backup, got BSOD. Solved problem with technique detailed on this forum.
This worked for me. I used Acronis True Image Home 11 from within Windows (WinXP SP2) to generate my image.I wrote to the author of MbrFix, Kåre Smith, and thanked him. I also asked him
Here's the key part of his reply:
If we have any brave souls that would like to test that, please let us know how it works out.