"Update" is not an update

"Update" 10-17-15:
I really, really, really, hate to have to do this "P.S.", but in all fairness it has to be done. I cannot remember the last time I had to apologize for anything, but this is once.
After spending too much time with the original Acronis TI-2016 load, I decided to totally delete it. Make it gone, with the solar winds, never to return. Delete. Done.
Then, after staring at the motionless screen for awhile, failing to remember whether I had used up the activations allowed, I decided to try one more time. I would reload Acronis once more, before deleting everything on this box that was even remotely related to Acronis. Then I was going to delete the Acronis account I set up after buying the software.
So I looked up the Acronis .exe file and ran it. One more time, just for kicks and giggles. The install rolled out like a hungry snake and was done in no time at all. It finished in a screen filled with links describing various actions you would expect to find in a disc-management program.
I clicked on the "Backup" button, chose what I wanted to backup and where I wanted the 1's and 0's to end up at. I would send the 250 GB on C: over to an external drive. Go find a cup of java and sit by while "watching the paint dry".
Amazingly, the progress bar went so fast I figured it must have not actually been doing any kind of backup. After it finished (maybe ... 15 minutes or so... not much longer, and suspiciously being very polite with the computer resources) I checked to see what was on the external. There it was, safe and sound on the external. All 250 GB of the OS Drive, C:.
"So", whatever I did, or didn't do, on the first Acronis load that ended in nothing worthwhile being produced, was undoubtedly my fault.
Sorry there, Acronis, you Silicon-based little life-form. I cussed you roundly and you didn't deserve it. Whatever I was cussing was totally my fault.
And, while we're at it: Sorry, Ms. Alia R., for wasting the time you spent trying to figure out what I was talking about. Hope you don't have too many customers like I started out as.
Now, back to normal. Acronis, you get a "10" on "Backup". Haven't tried anything else yet, but am sure it will work just as well as the backup process did.
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Building a test box with two WD-3TB, and two 4TB storage drives. The WD drives came with a WD-version of Acronis TI-2016, which had a popup regarding full version features, and a link tag to "get the full version". So I clicked, bought, downloaded, installed, entered the serial number, made an account at Acronis.
What actually installed was some kind of hybrid between an advertisement and a broken impossible-to-understand splash screen. The only thing it actually did was cloak a 1TB HD that had previously been used for backups. How it did that I do not know. Whatever Acronis did made the 1TB invisible even to Windows-7. So I deleted whatever was calling itself Acronis True Image 2016, loaded a free version of (another program) and recovered the 1TB backup drive. An irritating waste of time.
I notice that this same Acronis-branded program comes with both WD and Seagate HD's. The "partial" Acronis program (a 2013 version?) actually works mostly with some features grayed-out. "But", the "update" is a complete waste of time and impossible to do anything with. Except, of course, loose a HD as mentioned before.
There is very little information on "the web" except for multiple complaints
Is there a fix for this problem, or is this "update" simply a step below "bait and switch"?