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Acronis completely removed, every trace per knowledge base, performing a manual back up of IDE secondary slave D: 300gb drive to K: 500gb SATA2 drive on the same machine. gets about 90% done then BSOD machine exception stop etc. every time,  Only thing left on the K: is a 4.19 gb temp file every time.

searched and found nothing else about a workaround, any ideas?

john h, evaluating the software. Want to buy

 Well, my original description was off. I was trying to backup an internal SATA drive, not the IDE slave. I was the internal SATA D: drive to the internal SATA 500 gb K: drive I was attempting to backup with SP.

Originally the 300gb SATA D: drive had its contents created from a drag and drop from the IDE H: slave drive recently after an accidental overwrite by Norton ghost.

So instead of doing a backup this last time for safety I attempted a simple drag and drop of this SATA d: onto the new 500 gb K: drive, it also BSOD exactly as before using SP.

So that made me suspect the SATA D: drive. Having the original content on the IDE H: drive I proceeded to do a backup with SP of it, teh H: drive onto the SATA 500 gb K: drive with total success. So, even though I have been operating from the SATA D: drive without problem, it, or some corrupt file structure? on it was causing a catastrophic read access failure.

Now that I have a good backup I'm going to rewrite from the backup image onto the SATA D: drive. Is it necessary to format the D: drive first? 

thanks for your fast response, ultimately I believe its a hardware/file problem not that of SP.

 Your insights would be appreciated.

john h