Partition restore just aborts with no information
I'm trying to xfr 3 partitions from my old Win7 system to a brand new computer running Win10. I defined the 3 new partitions and assigned drive letters D,E and F to them.
I used my old ATH 11 to create the 3 partition images, but when trying to restore them the inevitable happened, although ATH 11 installed on Win10, it just refused to restore anything. This wasn't a total surprise so I downloaded the latest trial version of ATH 2016. It installed OK, and successfully restored partitions D and E, one at a time. I started to restore partition F, which seemed to start OK. It ran for about 12 mins and appeared to restore about half of the 112 Gb, but then just stopped, as if it had finished, but it clearly hadn't. The target ptn's drive letter had been removed, the space it occupied was labelled as unallocated, and it was empty. I tried again by restoring to the unallocated partition, but the result was the same.
Any ideas please?
Thanks for your response.
The new computer arrived with Win8.1 installed. As soon as I'd finished setting up internet access it downloaded and installed Win10, and I really don't want to go through that again.
Are you suggesting to create the recovery CD of 2016 and running that on my old Win7 system to create a new backup of the F partition, which can then be restored to the new Win10?
It depends on what you want to move over from the Win7 computer to the Win8 computer.
If only data partitions, no problems.
If system partition is included, either you will have a dual boot system (2 OS, each on one separate partition), or you will lose all the Win10 partition and it will be replaced by the Win7 partition you restore. In any case, some updating of the boot records will need to happen to account for the difference betweeen UEFI/GPT and BIOS/MBR setups.
Yes, I'd suggest we remove some variables by creating a new backup using 2016 and restoring it.
Restoring system partitions should always be done with the recovery CD, although the product is designed to initiate that operation from Windows.
I'm getting lost.
I downloaded a trial version of TI 2016 on my Win7 system and (thought I'd) created a backup of my F partition. It took well over an hour and created a folder called 'Acronis Backups' on the external HDD, which still contained the file called 'MyBackups.tib' that was created on Sept 1st by ATH 11. Windows Explorer on Win7 and File Explorer on Win10 verified that the 'Acronis Backups' folder is dated Sept 4th and contains a .tib that contains the F ptn backup.
When I try to restore the F ptn on the Win10 system the only backup presented is the 'MyBackups', dated Sep 1st, which contains the backup that TI 2016 fails to restore. I can't find any way to tell TI 2016 to use the backup that 2016 created on my Win7 system.
Please HELP.
Because the ATI 2016 backup image was created on an different PC it will not appeare in the listing f backups. You have to manually add the backup. You either click on the add backups "tab" on the bottom left side of the ATI interface or the circle next to it with what looks like an inverted arrow head. (Cannot rember the exact process - I am on my iPad at the moment.)
Ian
Well, thanks to the encouragement, its done - I've restore the F partition. But I have to say, the user ATI interface needs a LOT of work. There's no sign of a Restore function until you choose Backup, which is a function I really didn't want at that stage. I'm still not totally sure how I got from Backup to Restore, but when I did it was then straightforward. Why on earth is it so obtuse? A more intuitive user interface would make an enormous difference.
The function is there - shame about the interface. Talk about spoiling the ship for a happ'erth of tar.