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I spent the last 2 days trying to clone the C drive of one of my PC's and after completion I found several programs that would not run due to missing license files. Other issues were experienced with missing data when trying to run. After trying to clone onto several new replacement SSD's (and each time taking a couple hours to complete) I finally purchased R-Drive Image and it was not only faster but the SSD ran the applications perfectly with no missing license files.
As an IT Director for a large food processing company I am now concerned that the backups of my critical systems that I trusted to Acronis will be flawed or unusable. Because of this I am now deleting Acronis from all of my business and personal PCs and looking at different solutions. This has been a real eye opener and I warn anyone who uses Acronis to be wary.

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Michael,

I suspect the applications which appeared to be unlicensed uses a scheme to license the software which is not all that visible under Windows. R-Drive claims to be a byte-by-byte backup so all data on the disk is cloned, regardless of whether it is allocated by Windows or what data may be there.

Did you do your Acronis  backup using Rescue Media, or was it run under Windows?

Did you run a sector-by-sector backup?

Have you tried to simply re-register the software which failed to appear licensed after recovery?

Michael,

Are you cloning this C: drive or, are you backing up and then recovering that backup?  These are not the same processes so offering advice is not something that can be offered here.

If you are using the Clone tool to clone the disk, which by the way is a bit for bit copy of the disk, are you doing so from within a running Windows OS or, are you using the Bootable Recovery Media to run the clone tool?

In general terms it is advised to use bootable recovery media clone tool to perform a clone operation.