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@ 2oldGeek
I have image 11 and director suite 10. I started with these people when it was 9 and never regretted it. the two best programs i have for a secure mind.LOL
I also have two drives a 120 partitioned 50 gig for c and the rest to d my documents.
I have a 250 with a 5 gig partition for page file, a Large partition for movie and picture editing with photo shop, a secure zone for my c drive image,, a partition for my back ups of my documents. And i also have never had a virus yet, Knock on wood, but I'm prepared for the worse, and have peace of mind,

 

Right, so I managed to borrow a copy of Disk Director Suite 10 and installed it. However, I cannot resize my partitions C: and D: as whenever I try to do so (be it in Auto or Manual mode) after determining the new sizes and rebooting, the following happens:

Acronis software analyzes partitions (100% done), then:
ERROR: Disk not found




Picture this.

 

You cannot partition the drive that Acronis is installed on. You must make a boot disk and do it from a copy that loads into memory and uses Safe Mode.
It will make a Boot Disk. Look through the menus.

 

Can't remember, and can't find the instructions.
Did you get a help manual?

 

Oops, okay, thank you, I'll do that.

On a different note: in Device Manager, there is a warning sign next to SE 3.2 Memory Driver. I've looked it up on the Net and found that it's initiated by vistax.dll, but I have no such file on my computer.

Furthermore, although I installed IE7 today, it still hangs up whenever I enter that bloody hotmail website, just as IE6 did before.

Also how come that ctfmon.exe now gets loaded with each bootup? I think this has been the case since I installed DDS10.

 

@donewell,
I also been using Acronis for some time, started with 7 skipped 8 went to 9 and then 10.
May just skip 11 all together, it doesn’t show me anything I can’t live without. Lol
Normally I use a 80 GB for my main drive but had one crater a couple of months ago and already had the 250 that I replaced it with. That’s why I don’t keep my backups in a secure zone, when you loose the drive completely, you loose your backup.

 

I just increased the size of my c drive partition from 30gig to 50 gig last week, Just open director suite and chose the wizard to increase the size of a partition . It will ask which one to increase , and where to take the free space from. Then you will have to comit after for it to do the job and reboot. It's a no brainer.

 

Okay, I have increased the size of partition C: to 12 gigs from 5 using the bootup disk. However, bootup is still not very fast. It's faster than before resizing, but not as fast as it used to be. Otherwise, everything seems fine, although DDS seems to have screwed itself up, as it recognizes my primary drive having 5 gigs and 95 gigs unallocated space, while everything else - Win Commander, Windows Explorer - recognises the two partitions properly. I am now running defrag and then chkdsk just in case.

 

I got my image 11 for free , When they talked me into upgrading from 9 to 10 ,They told me that if there were any major upgrades in a year it would be free. The 11 came out 1 month before that ran out and they gave me 11 for free. AS for loosing my back ups in a hard drive melt down, they would still be on my main drive and just make new back up to new second hard drive. The image of c drive os and program files in secure zone, I have that on a disk also, for quick install.