Windows 7 beta incompatible??

try using norton ghost. ive had much better luck cloning backup with this software.

If you are installing a trial version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 or Acronis Disk Director 11 Home, you do not need a serial number.

If you have an OEM version of an Acronis product (e.g. preinstalled on your hard disk, notebook etc), please contact your OEM vendor for a serial key.

If you purchased your Acronis product online, then you should have received your serial number in an automatic E-mail that was sent to the E-mail address that you provided at the time of the purchase.

If you purchased your Acronis product offline at a retail store, then the location of the serial number depends on the package:

• Boxed product, that consists of the CD, White CD Sleeve, Quick Start Guide. - The serial number sticker is affixed to the back of White CD Sleeve;

• DVD Amaray Case, that consists of the CD and Quick Start Guide. - The serial number sticker is affixed inside the DVD case on right hand side. Directly above where the CD is held in place.

If you still cannot find your serial number, you can try contacting Acronis Customer Central here: http://www.acronis.com/support/index.html?ow=1

Hard disks with S.M.A.R.T. technology have internal checks that may identify problems with your hard disk that may lead to fatal failures, warning yu in advance (it is very common when people hit or let their laptops bump against the table - hard disk drives are very sensitive to shocks and bumps...)

First of all: BACK-UP ALL FILES YOU CONSIDER IMPORTANT, SPECIALLY YOUR OWN  DOCUMENTS!

One way to solve your problem could be to download and install a 30-day trial version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 from http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/  and use it to generate a full backup image of your hard disk into an external USB hard disk drive . Please, generate also the Bootable Rescue Media CD.

Then buy a replacement disk, install it in the laptop and use the Bootable Rescue CD to start Acronis True Image directly from the CD and recovery your backup, reinstalling everything back to your laptop, in just a few minutes.

Although using the trial version of Acronis True Image will help you in this emergency case, you might want to buy it as it is an exceptional tool to have for cases like this.

Another way would be to download all the drivers for the devices installed in your computer, save them in a CD or flash drive, buy and install a new hard disk, buy a Windows installation CD and reinstall your laptop from scratch, using the drivers you downloaded earlier to reinstall them to your laptop..

f you need further assistance, please, feel free to ask us here at FixYa.

Hope this info may help you.

There are two keys which might work with as per your edition : Acronis True Image 11.0 HOME s/n: R3LN8-T98EA-Y3LHA-WXR4U-PJ3E9
Acronis True Image 11 Name: Noc s/n: PS4J2-EYXFC-HK47C-ZU2NC-PZNTK

Yes you could but Acer won't support it. You either have Vista or 7 in it. If Vista, update to 7 and be done with it.
If you want XP, first copy a full image of your present OS on a external drive using a program like Acronis True Image Home. Then reformat your hard drive when doing an XP install. Do you have a full version XP install disk?

if your pc starts ok with no cd in than do it like that if you see this error all the time it means your hard drive is shot, or erased, or partially erased and needs to be setup again or replaced. got nothing to do with acronis if it does this all the time even with no cd in drive.

You need a windows xp image disk program. One program I think of off the top of my head is Nero or Roxio.

Print screen and post a image.

Acronis has an application that run before the OS called Acronis loader. It is posible it gets corrupt. Try the booting cd with acronis rescue media. Then Uninstall the boot loader. Ultimately, if you cannot do backup/restore from the computer, extract the hard drive, using and hard disk to USB adapter, do the nessesary operations on othe computer that you will hookup the hardrive.