djjhart@aol.com

I think I need some of that new Mexican Tar floating around Via an IV drip.

Best to combine it with feathers and do a job on that "one who's been the business for years"!

UnderTow

yorolpal


Been there...done that, ol pal.  My extreme condolences.  But, like my grandmom used to say, "when there's no way back...walk on".  Not much help but the only option any of us have.  Stay strong.  Rock on.

Uh, don't you mean "Wock on."?

don't want to hijack , but with acronis , is it possible to recover an active system partition ?

Recover sounds like a synonym for restore i.e. the process of writing a previously saved partition image back to a partition. Active sounds like a synonym for running, but it is also a term of art for a partition marked "active" so that it can be booted up when the computer starts. While shadow copy allows the image file to be saved/recorded while the system partition is running using Acronis and some other disk imaging applications,  the reverse operation overwrites existing partition data with the files from the image file. That operation can't be done without crashing the running system if the system is accessing the hard drive partition that is being altered. Typically disk imaging systems have the capability to boot into another OS in memory (either from a removable disk or from a special boot partition created by the software) to perform restoration operations on the active partition. That allows the image to overwrite the existing OS partition without requiring that the system read the hard drive during the restoration. In any case, most disk imaging software will let you make a copy of the OS partition while the OS is running if the OS has shadow copy or an equivalent feature (although it may be more reliable to do so with a live i. e. in memory not on hard drive) OS and restore it (albeit with a required reboot or two).