Acronis True Image for Crucial.. limitations?
Hi guys :) .. I should start by linking the website with the acronis download I'm talking about for Crucial
https://www.acronis.com/en-sg/promotion/crucialhd-download/
And yes I do in fact have a shiny new crucial drive :) (crucial MX500 series, 1 TB) to use with it.
I heard that only the clone function is available for free with this download, basically to let you clone your old C/Windows drive onto your new crucial brand drive and I was wondering if this was true?
If not I was wondering if the following features were available on the free version of this software at the download website mentioned above?
- Use Windows to create an image file of the C drive/disk whether it's a crucial brand drive or not (so say for example make a backup of the C/Windows drive installed on a Samsung 970 Evo Plus m2 format ssd drive) ... I'm not worried about making incremental or differential backups, just a good old fashioned full, one time manual backup that's not programmed to go off at a certain time or the like, I just choose to take a "snapshot" of the C/Windows drive in it's current state
- create a bootable usb thumb drive "rescue media" style such that I can tell the PC's bios to boot from it
- restore said image file backup I created earlier using this usb thumb drive method back onto the C drive (at that point though I'm guessing you would have to be restoring to an approved crucial drive for this to work) .. so say worst case scenario I can restore the image made of Windows from the Samsung drive back onto the crucial drive currently installed in the PC if the Samsung drive fails for some reason .. I was planning to use the crucial drive as a gaming hard drive but in a pinch it would be nice to be able to repurpose it as the new C / Windows drive if need be.
I should point out as well that I built this desktop PC myself and did a clean Windows 11 install on it so it's not a premanufactured PC with any of the possible limitations that a computer manufacturer (Dell or Lenovo or what have you) might place on it.
Thanks so much to anyone who reads this and responds :)


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Steve thank you so much .. as always you are very kind and generous with your time not to mention thoughtful, insightful and helpful - greatly appreciated :)
As I found out when I tried to transfer the licenses over my (admittedly ancient :) ) year 2017 edition Acronis True Image licenses do not work on Windows 11 ... the website I linked for crucial hard drives mentions the software is compatible with Win 11 so will definitely install it on my PC's as I upgrade them to Win 11 (reluctantly mind you it's a real pain :) .. but it's the only way to get Microsoft's security updates when we get to October 2025)
That would be really sweet if the Crucial version of the software above worked to let me restore a C/Windows full backup to my Samsung 970 Evo Plus drive simply because I have a crucial drive installed in there anyways :) but I'm going with the worst case assumption that it's probably limited to restoring the Win 11 install on the samsung 970 evo plus onto a crucial drive if the Samsung 970 fails for some reason - of course I could be wrong! :)
Thanks again Steve :)
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Hmm.. I'm going to have to try creating that usb bootable rescue media too using the free acronis/crucial software mentioned above and see if the PC boots from that.. I've listened to Steve's advice before (since he's always been right :) ) and I do remember Steve saying it's best to create an image of Windows then restore that to the target drive using bootable usb drives rather than trying to do it in Windows.
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Andre, just touching on your older ATI 2017 software - you can install that on Windows 11 using your existing perpetual license and it will work! I did some testing back when Win 11 came out and had ATI 2015 working on it.
The only caveat is the need to not have Windows Memory Integrity / Isolation active when installing and then to deal with the Try & Decide tib.sys feature that is incompatible with Memory Integrity (this applies to all versions of ATI).
This is a known issue and only resolved by Acronis in build 40107 or later of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office which now offers a Custom Install option where users can now elect not to install the 'Try&Decide tool' feature (which brings the tib.sys driver to Windows).
For users of older versions of Acronis, see forum topic: Incompatible Driver(s): tib.sys? | Acronis Forum for information on how to circumvent the issue by renaming tib.sys to such as tib.~sys or by removing the associated registry entry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tib
Note: you may need to do a Safe mode start of Windows to action the above options.
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