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Acronis freezes after upgading to Windows 10

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I read older threads by others complaining of the same or similar problems but I never saw any resolutions or updates to this problem.  I've also screened Acronis knowledge bases for help.  When i try to contact support at Acronis their website won't let me.

In short, when i try to clone my HD, which worked fine before the upgrade, the system hangs unpredictably at diffeent stages of the cloning process often hanging up my computer as well a the computer itself..  One person in one of the older threads said to request a free upgrade, even if your version is not entitled to one (mine isn't) but i can't even reach anyone.  Anyone got a phone number or email address for thee guys that does not require paying for support?  i feel completely ripped off.

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Andy, welcome to these user forums.

Please can you confirm the version / build of ATIH that you are using when trying to clone your HDD?  For ATIH 2015 the latest build is 6613.

Next, how are you performing the clone of your HDD?

Please see KB document: 48386: Acronis True Image 2015: Cloning Disks which provides detailed information on how to perform cloning.

Some important points to note about cloning:

  1. Always use the Acronis bootable Rescue Media when cloning - do not start to clone from within Windows even though Acronis will let you!
  2. Remove the source HDD from the computer and replace it with the new / target HDD (or SSD) drive, installed in the same location, same connector.
  3. Connect the removed HDD to the computer via a USB-SATA adapter or in a disk caddy.
  4. Check the boot method that is used by Windows and use the same boot method to start the Acronis Rescue media.
    See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS
  5. Once booted into the Acronis Rescue Media, ensure that you can see and identify the source and target drives correctly.
    Note: only entire disks can be cloned, so the size of the target must be sufficient to hold the contents of the source drive.
  6. When the clone has completed, shutdown, remove the Rescue media and disconnect the external source drive.
    Do NOT attempt to boot into Windows with both source and target drives connected - these both now have the same disk signature and will cause problems for Windows if you do.

Read the above KB document and ensure that you check the other requirements for cloning, i.e. sector sizes, basic disks etc. 

You should also run chkdsk /f /r on both drives before the clone to make sure there are no dirty sectors which can prevent a clone from completing.  Somewhere along the line of your upgrade to Windows 10, some disk corruption may have occured and cleaning that up might just be all you need.  I would also launch an elevated command prompt from the Windows OS (before cloning) and run sfc /scannow to check for OS integrity (won't hurt and might help). Then try cloning again with Steve's recommendations using the recovery media.