Acronis TIH 2011 questions.
Hello
Downloaded this in Sept 2011 and need to replace my HD with a new SSD.
I did this once and it worked fine using Acronis 2011.
Well, the SSD failed and I am back to the old HD and need to clone it again with a new SSD.
I click on Acronis TIH 2011 icon and it comes up and says I need to upgrade.
Then it uploads and says my checksums do not match...over and over.
I hit ignore.
Regardless, I have no clue how to mirror image my HD using this software, i have no instructions and
none the options listed appear to be what I need. I need someone to step by step walk me through it again, if possible. Something is different since the last time I used this and I can't put my finger on it.
Thanks !!
I get the message when I start Acronis "A new version of Acronis true Image 2011 is available" this checksum errors every time and I just paid some good money for that program. Huh. Not sure if I want to risk it..
Also, the way I did the first clone worked perfect and I would rather do it the exact same way if possible.... I connected the new blank SSD to USB and I did not use any type of a disc, I would rather not... after I started the imaging process the machine rebooted and went at it before windows could start, I remember that much.
Thanks, let me know how I can repeat the process i used, if possible.
Ok I figured it out, plugged the new drive into the USB and cloned it, installed it, works great. Thank you.
It is highly recommended to do clones from the recovery CD. Glad to see it worked out!
Well I may have lucked out, I didnt see any warnings or techniques described, I just followed the directions and did it. Plugged it in and hit clone.
BUT, unlike the first time when it knew my drive size, it says my C is 98.9G capacity. D is 12.6G capacity and F is 32.4 capacity and I have an Intel 510 120GB SSD so I dont know why it didnt know the size of the drive when it analyzed it. All my drives add up to 143GB.
EDIT Ok I see what I did wrong ....The F drive is in MB is what had me confused, I missed that.
The Intel 510 SSD tripled the speed of virus scans and with the i7 4 core they never bog the system down even a little bit .
Thanks for the advice.
Steven,
If you are new to SSD, verify that your disk is aligned. To do that, use msinfo32.exe > components > storage > disks. Each partition has a paragraph there. Look at the last line: offset. The offset of each partition needs to be divisible by 4096 when expressed in bytes.
Works out perfect, all 3 drives the bytes are divisible by 4096 with no remainder. They all add up to just a hair shy of the drive size.
You know, I wonder how reliable this drive will be. My first Intel 510 lasted 4 months and I had a few crashes for no good reason and used the Intel tool box and did a drive analysis and it failed. Contacted intel via live chat at 3 pm teus, told them the problem, they never quizzed me or hesitated when i told them the error I received and the next day at 4 I had the new SSD drive and around 6 or 7 it was running. They were very prompt and I am a little bit curios as to whether this is a typical problem with this drive?
I understand defrags are NOT recommended and I avoid them.
Is there anything I can do to make it easier on the drive? I notice the "turbo boost" of the 4 core kicks in periodically when doing a virus scan or running a few programs at once and the fan will turn on and maybe it is working the SSD too hard....I don't know if they actually have this technology perfected but the memory sticks seem fine. However they are not used constantly either.
Another question is why should have I installed the SSD and cloned it from the USB ? I didn't have a disc to boot from. I downloaded the Acronis program that I used. Seemed to work fine.
The Acronis software, once I figured out where to look, worked perfect for a basic simpleton such as myself when it comes to working with drives and cloning etc. I can stumble around win 7 pretty good and keep it running but not real keen on doing this sort of thing.
I have had this laptop since June and the first HD failed in 1 month and I was careful with it. It was a Hitachi. The replacement HD is loaded and I used that to clone this. I went to an SSD for speed and to avoid problems and I end up with more problems LOL
Thanks Pat !
Steven,
For various reasons, it is much better to do clones from the recovery CD. From these forums, there are a huge number of cases where the reboot process that comes after starting a clone from windows and/or the level of automation in this workflow result in non-functioning clones.
For laptops that have specific disc geometry (like Thinkpads) it works best to do a reverse clone (put the new disk at its final place and put the original somewhere else).
Don't forget you need to test your recovery CD anyway to be able to restore your system if your disk dies.
Wrt to SSD, there is not much to worry about:
- verify that TRIM is enabled,
- leave the pagefile.sys file on the SSD,
- turn off superfetch,
- leave prefetch on,
- turn defrag off (defrag doesn't really hurt the disk, it just wastes write cycles and, most importantly, doesn't improve anything at all)
- don't worry about your disk being worked out!
- every 6 to 12 months, do a complete disk backup, ATA-secure erase the disk to restore its performance to manufacturing, restore the image and enjoy as-new performance,
- don't worry about writing things to your disk. It is tru that the memory in there has a life cycle. But, depending on your disk, the features, etc., even you if were to write every sector of your disk every day 3 times, it would last 15 to 50 years.
In my case months back the only problem I had doing it this way was darned thing kept going to sleep during a clone and had to powercfg -h off and then all was well.
The SSD is the biggest performance gain I have seen, hard to believe actually. Took my windows experience hard drive performance from 5.9 to 7.8 and the overall was less than that, around 6.6 I think.
Great info, thanks Pat.
Steve