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Richard
I really appreciate the help. I have the original HD cloned to the USB HD
when I have tried to clone it with Acronis to a new IDE HD it still gets the
ARC and HAL errors. How do I make this new HD bootable again? Do I have to
reinstall XP on this drive?
Thanks
Mike
"Richard" wrote:
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> "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> > Need help! I can clone my HD to a USB HD no problem. But when I try to
> > boot
> > from this drive I get the ARC and HAL file problem and nothing happens.
> > Acronis tech support said that I needed to run Sysprep for XP SP2 to make
> > the
> > image boot. Can someone please provide a detail procedure for using XP
> > SP2
> > sysprep. This USB is my backup in case the primary drive dies. I backup
> > my
> > file separately on CD.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike
>
> Another approach is to image your HD to the USB HD on a regular schedule.
> Now if you have a HD failure, remove the broken HD and put in a new HD . Now
> follow the Acronis bare metal restore procedure and you are back in
> business. You could test the backup by restoring to the existing HD while
> everything is still working.
>
> An even better strategy is to buy a spare HD now. Then pretend that your
> existing HD has failed. take out the old, put in the new and do a bare metal
> restore from your USB HD Image. This is a risk free method of testing out
> your backup system as your good old HD is available if a mistake is made.
>
> This is the method I used when testing out my old Ghost backup and I have
> followed it again with the spare drive when I recently gave up Ghost and
> switched to Acronis.
>
> A good back up means a good night's sleep
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>
> Richard.
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