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Acronis 2012 "Clone Drive" won't work with Win 7

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When I used Acronis 2009 with my older computers to Clone the C-Drive into an identical ext.USB drive, it would re-boot and come back almost a black screen, only showing a small progress bar at the bottom until done.
Now that I have bought Acronis 2012 to do the same with my new Win 7 Laptop, upon exiting to re-boot, it gives me the standard windows sign-in prompt, to which I reply, and the computer comes up, as it normally does, and clone back does not happen. Please help!!

Gil Soria

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Gil,

Why are you cloning your disk to an USB disk?
If you want to be able to get your system back and running after a system disk crash, do not use clone. Create a disk and partition backup that includes all the partitions on your laptop disk and store this backup on your USB disk. Create an Acronis recovery bootable CD and try it on your computer.

At any rate, to answer your question, cloning is best done through the bootable Acronis recovery CD anyway...

Simplicity is the answer. It only takes me a few steps to clone the hard disk. When my computer crashed last year, I replaced my bad disk with the saved clone and was up and running, then Created another clone.
If the method you are suggesting is the only way for me to resolve this problem, then I have to read the massive manual, understand new concepts (images, mounting,etc.), and add more steps to the process. Is there a fix for clonning a h.Disk with Win 7?? Thanks for responding. I really appreciate your advice, and hope you understand my "naive"/neophyte position.

Gil

Gil,

Try to do your clone from the Acronis recovery CD, not from ATI in Windows.

As you do this, you will see it is easy to create a disk and partition backup of the entire disk from the CD, and store that backup on the USB. The nice thing is that you can update that backup as you make changes to your system.
2 notes:
- when you run ATi from the CD, ATI will show you drive letters that may be different from Windows. Looks a the disk label, not the drive letter.
- make sure you tick the box at the disk level to indicate what to backup (this will make sure you include all the partitions on your disk).