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Acronis total dirt OS selector - kills hard drives!
nudone:
i'm still wondering if i'm dreaming this but having pinched myself several times i 'think' i'm awake.
as i've got vista and xp nicely working on the same hard drive (on different partitions) i thought i'd have a go at making things smoother when selecting which to boot.
Acronis OS Selector seemed like a good idea to try. it sort of worked - almost. i was prepared to mess about with it a bit to get it working fully if things didn't go right first off.
so, vista booted fine, xp wouldn't boot.
no problem i thought i'll just disable the Acronis loader and go back to how i had things working with the GAG floppy boot loader.
how nice to find that after loading up vista and checking if all my partitions and drives are there i find that the Acronis loader has completely wiped out a 250 gig hard drive - one where i keep all my data. lovely. thank you Acronis, i will make sure you are first on my Christmas list.
the drive is now an 'unallocated partition'. i've tried a couple of programs to scan for lost partitions and they've found nothing. absolutely fantastic.
so, just an innocent bit of messing about has wiped an entire drive - one that the Acronis rubbish shouldn't have touched anyway - there weren't any operating systems on it.
now, at this point i would normally be preparing a noose to put around my neck after losing all that data (that's everything i've created and saved as reference material), but i was using MirrorFolder to keep a duplicate of everything in realtime on another drive. so i 'believe' everything is safe - if nothing else goes wrong.
there's a moral in there somewhere - possibly a few.
here's the bottom line (literally)... don't even consider using that Acronis piece of sh*t OS loader. how dumb can a piece of software be - Acronis should be ashamed to have created such an evil program. what a load of b*stards.
mouser:
that is evil.
it also just reaffirms my recommendation to stay away from dual booting / multibooting loaders.
hang in there nudone -- don't dispair.. hopefully the data is all mirrored. if not you might still be able to get the drive partition back -- just dont do any more writing to that hard drive.
nudone:
i'm currently scanning it with another program - which at the moment is telling me it's found 8 partitions. some bad, some not bad. well, that's nice then isn't it. with a bit of luck i'll be able to pick the correct one out of the 8 and have it working.
at least, i've learnt how "curiosity killed the cat" - Acronis OS Selector did it.
nudone:
er, correction. it's now found 41 partitions - i obviously am dreaming. there's no other explanation now.
nudone:
oh i love computers. there's always an adventure to be had - all without leaving the safety of an armchair (i don't have an office chair).
the partition is now recovered (although it was reported as "bad").
software used: Active Partition Recovery.
i shall now crawl back under my rock. (i daren't check to see if xp still boots.)
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