On deleting from Acronis you have to go into backup and start to create the backup and delete from the save destination It may show it as 2 files try the top one first to make sure it’s all cleared. That’s why I went to using my own file name instead of the generated one. Just look and you’ll see it’s easy enough. I don’t have the drive on right now. I’m not sure about the memory part but Vista and Windows 7 are picky about it. Is it the same brand? sometimes that is a problem. You can run something like MemTest http://memtest.org/ I see that recommended a lot. It probably doesn’t need that much ram running off CD but I really don’t know. Here is a site with some tutorials and videos
http://ask-leo.com/how_to_backup.html
Joe