Acer Aspire E laptops and Acronis - anyone have any success stories? :)
Brand new to the forums so I hope I'm posting this properly if not please let me know :)
This is my first time installing Acronis (True Image 2017) on a laptop that comes pre-installed with Windows (Windows 10)... the laptop is the Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-57D4 model.
I've heard some horror stories about Acronis not "playing nice" with laptops that have their own recovery partition on the hard drive. I went with the "backup a drive" option (instead of "back up the entire PC" ) and backed up the C drive ... clicking on the "partitions" tab revealed the hidden partitions (including the recovery one I think) which of course I backed up along with the main "Windows" partition. Backed up everything basically far as I can tell :) ... for the source destination, the backup went onto the second hard drive (SSD drive) I installed on the laptop (nice thing about this model is it comes with a spare empty compartment you can install a second hard drive right into :) )
What I'm wondering is this - and I know it's kind of a strange question :) ... has anyone else out there with an Acer Aspire E series laptop tried Acronis True Image (doesn't even have to be 2017 version, will cross my fingers and hope the various versions throughout the years are similar enough for my purposes :) ) on their laptop as far as restoring from an Acronis backup? If so, did it work? :) ... if so , were you able to restore from within Windows, or did you have to do the whole "recovering from dissimilar hardware" thing and boot from the CD one creates in that process?
Thanks in advance to anyone who reads this and replies :)


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I've actually seen your posts before when doing a google search in the past for info on Acronis and I've always thought to myself " Wow this guy is awesome he volunteers SO much of his time to help people out " :) ... so thanks very much for that and for your post here too :)
When you say you regularly backup partitions on your dell laptop, I'm going to take that to mean that you've successfully restored your dell laptops from images created using Acronis :) ... which is good to know , that Acronis True Image works on other laptops with recovery partitions so fingers crossed that it works with Acer laptops too or at least this particular model :) ... I made a backup of the laptop using the "native" recovery program that comes preinstalled on the laptop - it asks for you to create what appears to be a bootable thumb drive so hopefully worst case scenario if I try to restore from Acronis and it royally screws the laptop up I can use the thumb drive :) ...
But that's good to know too, that I should use the Acronis bootable rescue media to do the restore if need be and the possible complications if I do it in Windows and that the USB stick is the best way to go ... I tested out the usb thumb drive I created and sure enough it boots into Acronis True Image using the thumb drive and it "sees" the acronis backup I created on the other SSD hard drive so looks like I'm all set ... hopefully a situation doesn't come up where I have to restore from the Acronis backup (too cowardly to just go for it and try restoring from the backup now to see if it works :P ) but if I do have to go this route I will post an update here and let people know how it went (in case someone else with an Acer Aspire E series laptop has a similar question and is google-searching for an answer :) )
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Andre, happy to help out other users when able to.
If you are able to do so, then get hold of a spare HDD or SSD of a similar size to your main OS drive in your Acer, then you would have a means of testing a recovery to that spare drive without any need to 'wipe out' your working boot drive.
Hopefully it will be a long time before you need to use the backup but... computers can be uncertain, especially with Microsoft pushing out new updates for Windows 10 that have the potential to turn your laptop into an expensive door stop! I have used my rescue media and restored a number of computers over the years for a variety of different reason, some purely because a Windows Update screwed things up seriously and a recovery was a whole lot quicker than trying to fathom what MS had got wrong!
We get lots of users with Acer and many other makes of laptops, desktops etc. There is no particular reason why ATI would not work with any of these unless you are on the very bleeding edge of technology where new device drivers are needed, as was the case a while back with NVMe PCIe drives.
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Thanks again so much Steve :) ... this is good to know, that you have Acer customers whom I'm guessing you have used Acronis True Image with in the past to restore their PC's Windows installation (I'm guessing you work in the computer industry ? :) ) ... and cripes that Windows 10 stuff is not good news for us Win 10 users at all :P but that's very good to know thank you :) .... I've heard some horror stories about Win 10 (can't believe they took away the user's ability to decide if they're going to install Windows updates that's just crazy... I know they're trying to make it easier for the users but cripes man that's a little bit too " Big Brother" for me :P ) ... but I'm too cheap to just buy my own copy of say Windows 8 and install it on the laptop plus all the grief of having to try to find compatible drivers if Windows update doesn't do it for me :P .. so will cross my fingers and hope Win 10 works out for me (but the ATI is a nice peace of mind sort of thing :) ) ..thanks again for all your help ! :)
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