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Where does Acronis restore a backup

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I want to clean up my ssd and need to format it again.

I made a backup from the SDD.

 

Where is Acronis placing the restore? On the front of the SSD or spread all over the SSD as it was collected in the backup?

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Marc, what type of backup have you made and where have you stored this?

What is your SSD used for?  Is this your Windows OS boot drive?

Typically, you do not need to worry about the distribution of data or fragmentation of data for SSD drives as these are not subject to the same performance degradation as the older spinning disc HDD drives.

I would suggest looking at any tools provided by the SSD maker and just doing a Trim of the data on the SSD.  Trim is the equivalent to using defragmentation on a HDD.

Hello Steve,

I use Acronis already many years. Make each time a full backup that is stored on an external usb disk.

So the entire disk, including W10, all installed programs... , also other partitions, are in the backup.

I have a Samsung SSD 860 EVO in my computer. That SSD lost almost 50% of its speed. Samsung told me to format the SSD again and do a clean install.  They think the SSD got partially corrupted.

So I was wondering if I cannot just format the SSD again, and restore my last backup that includes everything that is on that SSD. Is that possible, and will the problem of the lost speed be gone?

Would it be better to clone the disk, and clone it back to the SSD after reformating?

Marc, thank you for clarifying the reason for this topic, which makes more sense now!

I would recommend staying with using Backup & Recovery for this situation, and not using cloning here!

There should be no need to format the SSD before doing a Recovery as the first action by ATI will be to wipe the drive and reinitialise the partitions based on the data in the backup archive file.

The key here will be to identify the BIOS boot mode used by Windows 10 first.  Do this by running the msinfo32 command in Windows - BIOS mode is shown in the right panel and should be either UEFI or Legacy. 

Next, if you haven't already done so, create the Acronis Rescue Media using the 'Simple' method of the media builder tool and test that you understand how to boot your PC from the rescue media in the same BIOS mode as used by Windows 10.

See the KB documents below.
KB 60820: Acronis True Image 2018: how to create bootable media
KB 60091: Acronis True Image 2018: how Simple bootable media creation mode works

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 60131: Acronis True Image 2018: how to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

When doing the restore of your backup, this needs to be done as a Disk & Partition restore and at the top Disk selection level.

Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.

Note: Doing a Backup and Recovery of your Samsung 860 EVO SSD as above may not make a big difference to the performance of the drive if the issue is within the Windows 10 OS or any installed applications, as you will be putting back the same data as was on the original copy of the SSD - this will not be the same as doing a clean install of Windows 10 and reinstalling the applications to a formatted drive.

If you do see no improvement in performance from the SSD, then I would suggest running the following commands from an Administrator command prompt window:

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
SFC /scannow

Each command can take time to run to completion and should be run in the order shown.  These will try to identify and fix any problems in the core Windows OS.

If these commands do not help, then the next suggestion would be to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows 10 which will keep all your installed applications and user data!

See webpage: How to Do a Repair Install of Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade

Thanks for the help!

Will follow your instructions.