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Partition Recovery from Older Backup Doesn't Appear To Do Anything

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Hi,

I took a full backup last week, and another one earlier today. I am trying to recover the C:partition from last week.

The restore appears to work OK, but only lasts a second, and of course, it doesn't do anything.

What am I doing wrong please? Screenshots attached.

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From your screenshots you appear to be doing the recovery from within Windows. My understanding is that the PC should shut down and restart using temporary Linux recovery environment. I am not keen on doing anything that ends up in the use using temporary Linux recovery as things can go wrong. I would create (if you have not already done so) a rescue media and use it. Not sure why the process does not initiate; possibly may be due to the secure boot configuration.

Ian

Thanks Ian. I am utterly, utterly amazed that this doesn't work in Windows. I do have recovery media, and hope I can just do a single partition that way, rather than the Full Monty. And frankly, if it doesn't work in W10, it wouldn't be beyond the wit of man for Acronis to put out a message to that effect ....

I know that Acronis can be pretty fancy, but really, the whole point is security. And a restore should be very very reliable. 

As it happens, the need to do this may not be so great now anyway. Thanks for the reply. I'll see whether there are any other comments. 

Paul, recovery started from within Windows can work for some users, but this really depends on a number of factors not under control by Acronis including the type of installed disk drive(s), how the BIOS responds to booting from Linux, if any encryption such as BitLocker is being used etc.

I agree with Ian with regard to using the Acronis Rescue Media for any OS drive recovery, this is the safest method because you will see immediately whether your computer can boot correctly from that media, and see if your disk drive is visible in the rescue environment or not?

If you have any NVMe type drives or use RAID for the SATA controller mode (common for such drives to give better performance) then the Linux based rescue environment does no have support for this.

The 'Simple' WinPE version of the Acronis Rescue Media should be used as allows additional device drivers to be injected if needed, or else use the MVP Custom PE Builder tool to create an even more flexible version of rescue media.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

Thanks Steve, that's very useful. I do have Rescue Media, and so should I need to restore a partition or drive, I will start with this in future. 

Steve Smith wrote:

 

I agree with Ian with regard to using the Acronis Rescue Media for any OS drive recovery, this is the safest method because you will see immediately whether your computer can boot correctly from that media, and see if your disk drive is visible in the rescue environment or not?

Yes, in fact I did have to do a restore, and using the restore media worked fine, thanks.