Thanks for the reply.
It eventually worked starting from within Windows. There was an error
reading one file, I chose to ignore it and it appears to be OK now.
WLAN is now working so I think I'll skip SP3 on this laptop.

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Kenny Cargill




"DL" <address@invalid> wrote in message
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> Are you able to verify the image?
> You might also try a memory check www.memtest.org the only time TI has
> given me a problem it transpired that the memory was iffy
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> "Kenny" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message
> news:uYPjLlCtIHA.2188@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Not strictly an XP problem but don't know where else to post it.
>> Advent 7096 laptop, ECS 331 m/b with onboard Ralink 2500 wireless
>> adapter..
>> XP MCE/SP3, Acronis True Image 10.
>> I have a TI image of the laptop on an external USB HDD which I am trying
>> to restore.
>> If I start TI from Windows, select the image and restore to C: it tells
>> me that it has to reboot to complete. It reboots, gets as far as
>> "loading, please wait" in the Acronis loader and goes no farther, have
>> waited up to an hour!
>> Tried booting from a TI bootable CD created when installing TI. Same
>> thing, goes as far as "loading, please wait" and no farther.
>> I'm trying to avoid using the laptop recovery because I have updated
>> drivers, programs etc. in the image.
>> Might add that the reason I want to restore is because after installing
>> SP3 my wireless LAN wouldn't work. Initially the LED on the keyboard
>> came on when the WLAN button was pressed but while the connection showed
>> good signal strength it couldn't find the router. After a while even
>> pressing the WLAN button the active LED won't even light!
>> Gone through the re-installing WLAN drivers, checking firewall etc. but
>> no good.
>> It may be a coincidence it happened after SP3, maybe the wireless adapter
>> has failed.
>> Have also installed SP3 on desktop and it went flawlessly.
>> Any advice appreciated.
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>> Kenny Cargill
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