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To: vireya who wrote (75514)	5/31/2011 11:33:21 AM
From: Gottfried	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110583

vireya, try this for bad sector repair ehow.com nothing to install If the above doesn't work, I'd retire the drive

To: vireya who wrote (75514)	5/31/2011 12:01:55 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	1 Recommendation Respond to of 110583

How I create and recover images. I plug a USB external drive into a USB port. I put the Acronis OEM CD in the DVD drive, when the auto-installer starts up to install Acronis, I click cancel. (I do not have the program installed on my computer I run it off the original CD that came in the box) I reboot the computer, and the computer boots up Acronis, I select the full version of the program to load. For backup, I select my back up directory on my USB drive, and give the file a name, usually the date, then I start the back up procedure, I only do FULL backups. Once it's complete, I click ok, removed the CD from the drive and close the Acronis window, and the computer boots back to Windows. For recovery, selected the image I want to recover from my external USB drive, recover that image, when done, click okay, remove the CD and close Acronis and the computer boots up with the recovered image. To use the boot CD, you have to make sure your computer will boot from the DVD drive. This is done in the BIOS. I use, now 5 external USB drives for images and critical data, I alternated them every week, so if one back up drive fails, I have others to fall back on. I just checked I have 10 USB drives, 5 I use, the others are storing data from work (photos), 2 for getting data off old drives, 3.5 and 2.5 inch drives, and others I just don't use anymore.