On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:43:37 -0500, Michael Stack wrote: >I have two questions. Has anyone else experienced such a >failure to recover on a Thinkpad? And what alternative >backup software are others using on their Thinkpads? >Obviously, it's possible that Lenovo shipped a bad replacement, >but Acronis has yet to suggest anything like that.
My experience with Acronis is it does not copy everything to the backup disk, so trying to restore from that backup would fail. My efforts to get the issue fixed via their technical support failed, so their software is now shelfware. I also have had problems with Lenovo's Rescue/Recovery under Vista (it trashed the partition letters and would not boot). My efforts to get the issue fixed via their technical support failed, so their software is now shelfware. I use DFsee for my backups. I did find a bug in that program two years ago that resulted in trashed FAT partitions (NTFS, HPFS, ext2/3 all worked fine). After reporting the problem, it was fixed in a week. I have been using the fixed version for several years and it has worked every time I have needed it (including this week when my Windows XP system died and I restored from a backup). --- Fred J. Tydeman Tydeman Consulting [email protected] Testing, numerics, programming +1 (775) 358-9748 Vice-chair of PL22.11 (ANSI "C") Sample C99+FPCE tests: http://www.tybor.com Savers sleep well, investors eat well, spenders work forever. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
