Acronis Recovery Failure
Hello. I recently bought a WD My Cloud Home Duo backup box. The salesmen at Currys told me that, although the standard connection was via a wireless network, the box could be directly connected to my Toshiba Satellite P50 laptop computer via an ethernet cable. In fact, that information was wrong. Not knowing this, I tried to do so and a few minutes later my Windows 10 system froze. I disconnected the ethernet cable without switching off the MCHD and performed a hard reset. Windows 10 loaded apparently as normal but the touchpad could no longer be turned off. (Normally whenever I opened the lid of the laptop I had to press Fn +F5 to turn off the touchpad.) I tried various suggestions found online without success. Even removing the touchpad driver made no difference. Another difference was that all my restore points had vanished. I decided to use Acronis to recover my system. As a precaution, I made a full backup of the system yesterday, and then I ran Acronis from a USB memory stick. I had made a full backup in August and an incremental backup in early November. I am pretty ignorant of Acronis processes in general, so I supposed I would have to restore the August backup first, and then the early November afterwards. But having restored the August backup, I thought I would check to see if the touchpad problem was solved. But Windows didn't load and I was taken into the Toshiba recovery system. I used the Wizard as an option, but the reset option didn't work. I am now wiping the HD in the hope that Windows can be re-installed. I suspect that the ethernet connection might have done some real damage. Can anyone offer any suggestions? Yours desperately and extremely gratefully.


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Hello, Steve.
Thank you for your help and time.
Everything was already UEFI. I chose the incremental backup and recovered my system.
Many, many thanks.
Robert
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