My Acronis TI installation fucked up my laptop. Again. I was on customer's office with my laptop at the time a backup was scheduled to run. That should be no biggie, right?
Wrong.
2013 did that, I wrote about that earlier. Some update for 2013 fixed that. I stopped suffering about the issue at some point. When it did happen I mis-identified the problem about being related to windows update, later I found out that it was because of a stuck Acrnois backup job.
That shouldn't be too difficult to fix? Acronis? Anyone?
1. My Ipod wouldn't be recognised.
2. The built in SD card reader failed to show up on My Computer.
3. My HD camera failed to be recognised.
4. My multi-card reader failed to be recognised as well.
5. The computer no longer: Restated, Shutdown or Hibernated.
After much searching, I found that Acronis True Image 2014 is the culprit. I tried to uninstall it to no avail. It would hang part way through. In desperation I just deleted the file C:/Program Files (x86)/Acronis. I also deleted C:/Program Files/Common Files/Acronis. I then used Registry Mechanic to delete registry files. I then restarted several times. After a tyhird restart, all eveidence of this piece of shit was removed. The computer now does eveything it should. Fuck ACRONIS and may they all burn in Hell.