True Image 2014
I am using Acronis True Image 2014. I have a Dell Latitude E5440 running W7 Pro 64bit. A week ago I tried cloning a laptop hard drive like I have done many times in the past. I use two IDE to USB 2.0 adapters for setup. In Windows Explorer system assigned drive letter (F) to Source and (E) to Destination. Checked contents of (F) All system files were there. Checked contents of (E) which was blank. All set ready to go. Opened up Acronis True Image 2014, Picked Clone Drive. Three drives showed up in list. Disk 1 C: @ 228GB, Disk 2 E: @ 80GB, and Disk 3 F: @ 80GB. Chose Disk 3 F: for source, chose Disk 2 E: for destination. All of this like I have done in the past many times. Also I double and triple checked that my source and destination paths were 100% correct and they were. Started the process and after a minute (Short time) I got a message saying I needed to reboot my PC for me to continue action. This was strange something that normally does not happen so I canceled all actions and rebooted my laptop. It booted up fine no issues. I started the process again and got the same message again and this time I did reboot and now I have MBR 1, 2, and 3 errors asking me to hit enter to boot from floppy (which is not present). It looks to me that it wrote to C: and now it is messed up. I have never had this happen to me using Acronis. Here’s what I have tried to get my valuable files back so far and yes “No Backup” (Shame on me). I made USB “SystemRescueCD” which contains many useful tools which I am new to. It contains TestDisk 7.0, GParted, etc.. I will first show you results of Gparted below when I opened it up:
Shows File System Unknown with a status of unmounted. Test disk results are below:
If anyone thinks they could possibly help me I would very much appreciate it. Acronis won’t talk to me because my support has ended.
Mash, please post in the older Acronis products forum threads, this is the 2016 forum area...
https://forum.acronis.com/forums/acronis-true-image-discussions/acronis…
FYI, don't start your clone in Windows - use the boot media. Starting a clone in Windows modifies your bootloader so that after the reboot it launches Acronis from the same disk as where the OS is installed. This is not a particularly good idea... since, if the clone fails, or launching into Acronis fails, the original bootloader is not automatically restored to the original. Using your bootable media will avoid this behavior.
Also, 2014 was limited with UEFI and GPT support. I can't remember, but if the bootable media supports UEFI/GPT boot and legacy boot, you want to start the media in the same manner as the current OS was installed in - I'm assuming your Dell came as UEFI/GPT and 2014 may be trying to do everything in legacy UEFI Mode. IF you're using a DVD or CD, burn your media to a USB flash drive. Then boot to it using your Dell one time boot menu (F12) and specifically check for UEFI USB booting. If it's not there, then there's a good chance the 2014 media doesn't support UEFI boot mode (it may, but again, I can't remember).
One other final note... Windows 10 uses fast start / fast boot. When you shutdown the sysetm, it is going into hibernation and not shutting down. As such, the OS is locked on the disk and from what I've read, prevents other bootable media from properly being able to access the content on the disk. YOu want to be restarting the PC or shutting down from command prompt with shutdown /S to make sure it completely shuts down to avoid this caveat of Windows fastboot.