Why does full system restore have to be so hard???
I’m finally using Acronis for what I bought it for: to restore my entire system after a complete loss of a hard drive.
First of all, the “bootable recovery media” is nothing of the sort. My laptop simply refused to boot from it.
So I’ve had to install Windows 10 on my new disk, followed by downloading and installing (and activating) Acronis.
But now, rather than just being able to restore my full system backup from the external drive it is on, I have to “mount” the disk, then select to recover it, and at the time of typing this I’ve spent 5 hours looking at a message saying “Loading Backup Content”.
Am I doing something wrong, or is this software really as unfit for purpose as it seems?


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the “bootable recovery media” is nothing of the sort. My laptop simply refused to boot from it
What happened when you tried to boot? Did BIOS say there was no bootable device? Did you computer go through POST and then just hang? Something else?
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