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I got it to work.

Roderunner, as described at http://lounge.windowssecrets.com/index.php?showtopic=779968&st=0&gopid=868694&, I cannot get Windows to boot and so can’t search for this file.

Regards,

JMT

Ted: is an image the same as the Acronis backup? If so, I’m in luck; I have the original and incremental backups.
Also, what do you mean by I would have to “purchase one”? Do you mean I must purchase an image or disk?

Roderunner: pressing F8 to enter Safe Mode doesn’t do anything; the screen still goes blank and eventually, the computer starts beeping at me.
I am running Windows Vista Home Premium.

Roderunner, regarding your 2010-11-19 09:00 post, I still don’t see what you mean by I am not making my backups as Acronis recommends. Are you implying that I defragmented my disk before I ran an incremental backup?

Fred, by “errors on original backup,” I mean errors on the first original backup I made with Acronis. This is the full backup of my laptop’s entire C and D drives. It is different from the incremental backups that I make periodically thereafter, which only record changes since the most recent full backup or most recent incremental backup.
I can’t tell if Acronis’s message is referring to some problem on the backup on my external hard drive or whether the issue is with my laptop’s native C or D drives.

Roderunner, regarding the “1 of 3 things” that my error messages can mean: I don’t think Acronis is incorrectly installed, as I have been using it for over a year with no problem, and I haven’t moved the backup file or defragmented the external hard drive on which the image was stored. I believe I did run a defragmentation on my computer’s C drive after I was getting the errors, but now I don’ remember. I may have only run a check disk and opted to repair the errors.

I tried running another Acronis backup today, and I got these messages from Acronis:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,783 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,799 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,807 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,823 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,855 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,911 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,959 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,975 of the hard disk 1.” I click Ignore and got this a few minutes later:

“Failed to read from the sector 295,778,991 of the hard disk 1.” I later clicked Ignore All and the backup completed as normal.

Does anyone know whether these errors are on my original backup on my external hard drive or are they errors on my laptop’s C drive. If the latter, then does this, coupled with the 12 and 20 kb of bad sectors message I am getting from check disk an indication that my hard drive is corrupt/deteriorating?

Regards,

JMT

UPDATE:

On 11.18.10, I restarted the computer and while it was restarting, I got a black screen with white letters giving the message “Checking file system on C: the type of the file system is NTFS. One of the disks needs to be checked for consistency …” I didn’t previously program a Check Disk. I suspect some kind of error caused this.

Here is the Wininit log:

Checking file system on C:
The type of the file system is NTFS.

One of your disks needs to be checked for consistency. You
may cancel the disk check, but it is strongly recommended
that you continue.
Windows will now check the disk.
354304 file records processed. 1367 large file records processed. 0 bad file records processed. 0 EA records processed. 60 reparse records processed. 440232 index entries processed. 0 unindexed files processed. 354304 security descriptors processed. Cleaning up 13 unused index entries from index $SII of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 13 unused index entries from index $SDH of file 0x9.
Cleaning up 13 unused security descriptors.
42965 data files processed. CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal…
35462280 USN bytes processed. Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

230532718 KB total disk space.
145308604 KB in 277647 files.
167696 KB in 42966 indexes.
20 KB in bad sectors.
407282 KB in use by the system.
4096 KB occupied by the log file.
84649116 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
57633179 total allocation units on disk.
21162279 allocation units available on disk.

Internal Info:
00 68 05 00 71 e4 04 00 74 96 08 00 00 00 00 00 .h..q…t…….
6f 4a 00 00 3c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 oJ..<………..
e0 64 14 77 00 00 00 00 50 23 1f ff 00 00 00 00 .d.w….P#……

Windows has finished checking your disk.
Please wait while your computer restarts."

So previously, I had 12 kb in bad sectors. Now I have 20 kb in bad sectors.

Then on 11.19.10, after I logged into my computer, the screen was blank for about 10 seconds with a tick tick tick tick sound, like the system was trying to read the hard drive but couldn’t. Then the computer came back to life.

Is my hard drive deteriorating? It was purchased in Aug. 2008 (a little over 2 years ago) and is an HP Pavilion DV2500 laptop with AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-60 2.00 GHz processor that supposedly makes the hard drive spin less so as to last longer, but this may have been puffery by the salesman just to get me to spend more money on this particular model.

I had both boxes (Automatically fix file system errors as well as Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors) checked when I ran the scan.

Roderunner: what in my backup is not as Acronis recommends? As I understand, Acronis recommends incremental backups whenever a full backup has already been made.

Photoshop should be able to acomplish this in batch.

I am trying to open these images in Photoshop, but they are coming out blank. In Window’s Photo Gallery, they come out fine though. When I open them in Photoshop, I get a window asking me about the dimensions I want for the image, the mode (RGB, grey, etc.), and the background (white, background color, transparent), and though I have tried several combinations for each of these elements, the photo always comes out blank.

I just tried to move the photo to a location one folder less removed (e.g., rather than A/B/C/photo.jpg, it is now in A/B/photo.jpg) and I don’t get that window asking me about the dimensions, etc. and the picture opens up fine. Is the problem that the address for the location of the folder is too long?

I am now trying to take every reference in my document to “(no.) المادة”, where (no.) is any number from 1 – 999, and replace it with “^p(no.) المادة”, such that before the number (after the number if you’re thinking linearly right to left as in Arabic) there will be a hard line break.

I was going to first go after the two digit numbers and then focus on the three digit numbers and then the one digit numbers. So focusing on the two digit numbers, I tried:
Find: ({2}[0-9]) المادة
Replace with: 1^p

However, Word was replacing the selection with just the number followed by a hard enter instead of the word المادة followed by the number followed by a hard enter. Is Word unable to replicate the Arabic word using wildcards?

Also, macropod, for some reason, I’m still getting a message that the search item I’m looking for was not found when I search for (([0-9]{1,3}) )??????

I’m just going to attach the document. Please note that I already inserted hard paragraph breaks (^p) into the first few articles, but around article 26 (المادة 26) there is no hard paragraph break after the article number. If anyone could figure out the exact code that would work, it would be great, especially if it is a single code that coudl be used for one, two, or three digit numbers.

Macropod: I tried that last week, and even though I had opted for all of my styles to be displayed, my ARabic style wasn’t showing up anywhere on the Style pane.

Actually, teh dialogue I’m havign trouble with is under Styles | Modify, then Format | Paragraphs, under text direction, Right to Left and Left to Rigth are grayed out for every style except for Normal.

I think I figured out how to get my style “Arabic” to go right to left. I think the text direction of all of the text is based on Normal; if Normal is left to right, then so will all of the other styles, and that can’t change. So first I tried to make the change in Normal to right to left text direction and then I created teh new style Arabic, whcih was based on Normal’s newly modified right to left default. But once I changed Normal back to left ot right, Arabic also changed.

So then I took a paragraph that was set to Arabic and went through Format | Paragraph without messing with the Style, and then I changed the text direction (there, unlike in the Style modify dialogue, it’s not grayed out). Then I ended up with a style called Arabic + right to left. I went ahead and set my ctrl + Shift + A shortcut to that new style, and deleted the Arabic style, and then saved ARabic + right to left as a new quick Style whose name was Arabic.

By the way, is there a way in Word 2007 to figure out what style a given selection is? In Word 2003, there was a window up top next to the font that showed the Style. In Word 2007, there is also a window, but there are only 3 styles shown at a time and the style where my cursor is is not always one of the there displayed, nor is it one of the 25 displayed when I click to expand the Styles window, or is it one of the Styles displayed on the side window when I click Format / Styles to open up the dialogue box.

I have a document with the Arabic word for “article” followed by an article number appearing over two hunderd times. I want to put a hard paragraph mark (enter; line break; ^p) between the article, the article number, and the text of teh article that follows so that the text of the article that follows will be below the word “article” and the corresponding article number.

I enabled wildcards adn used this code:
Find: {(2)} المادة
Replace: 1^p

When I attempt a search, I get this message: “The Find What text contains a Pattern Match expression which is not valid.”

What’s not valid about it? And anyway, what does {(2)} mean? Whenever I search for that, I get any single character or space, regardign of whether there is a 2 in the parentheses or any other number, including 10.

Actually, when I use the Soft Data Fax Modem with CP, it works fine. It is the Standard Modem that is giving me problems.

Thank you all. What actually worked was going to my 2-columned TOA and setting the columns to have equal column width.

Paul, I’m not sure I would agree that “WAV files on CD are standard (44.1k sample rate, 16bits) and should play on any CD player.” The car sterio says “MP3” and “WMA” on it. If it were also able to play WAV’s, then wouldn’t it also say “WAV”?

JMT