True Image 2016 does not work with Windows 10 64 bit
I have today installed Windows 10 64 bit and installed a number of prgrams the last of which was Acronis True Image Home 2016. The install process completed without a problem. I have done many backups of my PC when I had Windows 8.1 and:-
- from within Windows a backup of my PC (237GB) took about 40 minutes - OK
- using a bootable Flash drive a backup of my PC (237GB) took less than 7 minites - excellent
With Windows 10 this happened:-
- from within Windows (237GB) I was told the backup would take over 2 hours!!!. I thought that this must be wrong so I waited...and waited and gave up.
- I created a new bootable flash drive and rebooted my PC. The flash drive was identified, I was asked to press 1 to boot from the flash drive, I got the message "Acronis loading .....please wait" then the secreen went blank. For me that was normal and usually 10 seconds later the Acronis backup screen would appear. Now nothing appeared even after a 10 minute wait. I gave up.
I have seached the online help files but nothing covers this issue.
Can someone please help me to resolve this issue. I attach a system report.
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I have Windows 10 x64 on 3 systems with ATIH 2016 and all work fine in Windows, as well as with bootable recovery media (both the linux recovery and the winPE recovery)... so it does work.
The thing that seems to get most people with upgrading to Windows 10 is their own hardware and/or bios settings. For example on my main PC, I originally had Win 7x64 Pro, but it was installed as BIOS (CSM/legacy) and it was installed on a disk formatted as MBR.
However, my bios supports both BIOS (CSM/legacy) and/or UEFI as well as MBR and/or GPT disks. When I installed Windows 10 cleanly, it installed by default as GPT/UEFI since that is the ideal setup for Windows 10. On this particular system, since by motherboard supports all variations, there were no issues and Acronis works and I can restore older images that were created for BIOS (CSM/legacy) and MBR disks or UEFI and GPT disks.
Now, I also have an older HP netbook which only supports BIOS and MBR. It knows nothing about GPT and/or UEFI and there are no firmware updates to bring this functionality. As a result, I cannot restore any images to it that were taken on a system with a primary GPT disk or with a UEFI installation. This is a limitation of the bios though, not Acronis so you may want to see if your bios has the ability to all all modes, or has to be manually set to one or the other (Bios or UEFI). Ideally, a bios that will do both and allow for fallback to the other if the primary is not detected, will give you the best results, but not all BIOS are created equal so your system may have limitations.
Regardless, the Acronis bootable media is both BIOS and UEFI bootable and but I believe the UEFI functionality is only 64-bit compatible in 2016. If you have a 32-bit system (like many cheaper tablets such as the ASUS T100, Acer Aspire Switch, etc), you would have to enable CSM/Legacy mode in the bios. The LINUX bootable recovery media "should" at least boot if all bios settings are correct, but trying WINPE version wont' hurt either.
Last, have you verified that your bios is set to boot to a USB drive? If not, can you manually override by pressing ESC, F1, F12 or whatever is suggested by your manufacturer? if not there, perhaps the bios has a boot override menu and you can select the USB disk there instead?
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Bobbo_3C0X1 wrote:I have Windows 10 x64 on 3 systems with ATIH 2016 and all work fine in Windows, as well as with bootable recovery media (both the linux recovery and the winPE recovery)... so it does work.
The thing that seems to get most people with upgrading to Windows 10 is their own hardware and/or bios settings. For example on my main PC, I originally had Win 7x64 Pro, but it was installed as BIOS (CSM/legacy) and it was installed on a disk formatted as MBR.
However, my bios supports both BIOS (CSM/legacy) and/or UEFI as well as MBR and/or GPT disks. When I installed Windows 10 cleanly, it installed by default as GPT/UEFI since that is the ideal setup for Windows 10. On this particular system, since by motherboard supports all variations, there were no issues and Acronis works and I can restore older images that were created for BIOS (CSM/legacy) and MBR disks or UEFI and GPT disks.
Now, I also have an older HP netbook which only supports BIOS and MBR. It knows nothing about GPT and/or UEFI and there are no firmware updates to bring this functionality. As a result, I cannot restore any images to it that were taken on a system with a primary GPT disk or with a UEFI installation. This is a limitation of the bios though, not Acronis so you may want to see if your bios has the ability to all all modes, or has to be manually set to one or the other (Bios or UEFI). Ideally, a bios that will do both and allow for fallback to the other if the primary is not detected, will give you the best results, but not all BIOS are created equal so your system may have limitations.
Regardless, the Acronis bootable media is both BIOS and UEFI bootable and but I believe the UEFI functionality is only 64-bit compatible in 2016. If you have a 32-bit system (like many cheaper tablets such as the ASUS T100, Acer Aspire Switch, etc), you would have to enable CSM/Legacy mode in the bios. The LINUX bootable recovery media "should" at least boot if all bios settings are correct, but trying WINPE version wont' hurt either.
Last, have you verified that your bios is set to boot to a USB drive? If not, can you manually override by pressing ESC, F1, F12 or whatever is suggested by your manufacturer? if not there, perhaps the bios has a boot override menu and you can select the USB disk there instead?
I am most grateful for your guidance and here are my responses:-
- My PC contains all new equipment and it does support GPT/UEFI. It was used for Windows 8.1 and it did detect/run my USB Flash drive.
- My UEFI is set to detect USB (that is why it worked under Windows 8.1) and is still set that way under Windows 10. You will see from my initial posting that my USB Flash Drive is detected in the UEFI BIOS. Moreover, Acronis presents me with a menu list where 1. is boot from the Flash Drive. The problem is that when Acronic boots from the Flash Drive it does nothing - i.e. the screen remains blank. I accept that this has nothing to do with the operating system (because it is not yet loaded) so something else is responsible for Acronis not working now.
- I confirm that I have made NO hardware changes prior to upgrading to Windows 10 NOR have I changed any settings in UEFI - Windows simply upgraded from 8.1 to 10 and it worked flawlessly.
I will now try Acronis set up as WinPE on the USB Flash Drive to see if that works.
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I had a similar problem recently on a clean install of windows 10 x64 and TI 2016.. and have been unable to run backups for about a month. I have since found a number of things on my PC which I corrected and it now appears to work again.
1. Microsoft had downloaded update files to my PC with a total path length greater than 260 chrs (Breaking their own rules) . I found this by chance when cleaning the up disc and had problems with a couple of files. TLPD.EXE from sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/tlpd/ allows you to scan for files which exceed a specific length.
2. In my case I had a video file of about 16gb from when I did some video tape conversion ... I deleted it
3 I am running a SSD (Samsung 840 pro) as my primary C: Drive .. I had chosen to use samsungs "RAPID" SSD Caching mode ... I dont think I got any performance improvement so I disabled it on the advice of other sites where people had had problems on windows 10 with this disk mode..
Fingers crossed I have not had a single problem over the last week..... I cant say which of these worked but at least it seems to have fixed the problem
Regards
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