I'm trying to help a friend with his Toshiba Satellite L300D laptop. He bought it in Australia about 5 years ago. It was running Vista, but it had...
Arie, thank you for your suggestion. Unfortunately, even though we got back into Windows, Windows Live Mail refused to run, which is a show...
Resolved! Update: Lucky break! On the Windows login screen (not in any way connected to the Java password dialog box) is the offer to change...
My friend, who I can't interact with except over the Internet, has a laptop (Dell Inspiron 1520, about 5 years old, with Win7 Home Premium 32-bit)...
An abomination.
Flatiron, I posted it in #6, above. It's E: 31.7 MB free of 99.9 MB / 68.2 MB used space. My difficulty is this: The E partition is ahead (at...
This may be too simple or I'm overlooking something, but when I need to do this, with the document open in Word, I open the File>Open dialog box,...
Update: In checking drive E's size, I see that it's only 99.9 MB. As far as I can see that should not be causing the problem, and even if it is, I...
OK, I did the drive D expansion (by ~50%) and ran the full Windows Backup with image. It failed. Now I'll try Arie's and Flatiron's suggestion of...
After a day of trying everything and failing, at last a Windows Backup succeeded. Unfortunately, it does not include a system image. See the...
Clif, In my case, I couldn't even run the Acronis program, either from the computer or from the restore disc! So this would not have saved me. I...
Arie, No joy. First I eliminated drive D from the backup. When that didn't work I eliminated both drives D and E, and when that failed, drive...
Arie, I used Acronis very successfully for over two years, but was let down by it earlier this year when I suffered a meltdown of my C drive (a...
Arie, Attached is a screenshot of my computer's hard drives, showing their size and free space. In brief, C: 159 GB free of 287 GB total size...
Arie, You said, "So you'll have to check the volumes you are trying to backup, not just the destination drive." I'm sorry but I don't...
Also attached is a screenshot of the Backup window.
I'm using Windows 7 (Home Premium, 64-bit). For the past week or so I have been unable to create a Windows system image (via Control Panel\All...
You're welcome! Frank
readtom, Sorry it didn't work for you. Why it didn't is beyond my expertise to figure out. I hope someone else on this BBS might have an idea....
Have you tried the procedure in this article: How To Set Up & Use Windows 7 Backup & Restore Feature? If not, please review it and try again. Frank D
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