Used Acronis successfully in the past, with a smaller HD. At that time used an 80GB external HD for the mirror backup and was able to restore easily to the primary C drive.
Since then have switched to a larger primary drive, and set up the old primary drive as a slave secondary drive. I put the last mirror backup there, and thought all was well. Unfortunately, thanks to some hard locks that required powerbutton shutdowns, it seems that I've incurred some file corruption that's resulted in annoying windows XP behavior. After attempting some fixes, I decided to just remount my mirror backup and go from there.
So I took a while to copy some individual files, and then tried to restore the backup image. Despite several attempts, I keep getting this message:
E000003F6: Backup archive move is required
To continue the operation, reboot is required that will make the backup archive inaccessible for the product since the archive resides on the dynamic disk.
To perform the operation, relocate the backup archive to a disk with MBR partitioning
So how do I move the archive to a disk with MBR partitioning? Can I place a MBR on the slave drive at all, without losing the 125GB mirror image Acronis file? The acronis file is bigger than my external drive, so moving it would be a problem. In a pinch, I could try sending it across my home network to another computer (I think I could anyway -- one of the problems I've run into is that on my machine the "network places" has become unstable, so that it can't see computers that are connected and can interact with the network. At the same time, the other computers can see my shared documents but not access them even though permissions are enabled. Grr.).
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks
