Hybrid Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB
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I realize that this is not everyone's preference, but I find the fastest way
to verify a system backup is to clone the boot hard drive to a new drive.
Then if the new hard drive boots ok, - the new drive is 'verified'.
I remove and store the new drive, then I boot from my original drive as usual.
For Linux and Windows drives I use a different disk drive coning software solution.
For windows o/s,
Is there a known problem with Hybrid drives? From the Acronis live iso CD
Acro System Report returns a '... MBR sector is incorrect...' error.
Although the the Hybrid hard drive in question is not recognized,
the acronis zip diagnostic file is correctly written to it.
I would like to attach the generated AcronisSystemReport zip file,
but win 7 security does not allow me to move, or html file attach.
My supposed administrator ATTRIB commands on this file seem to return no set attributes
An help Acronis mounting a the Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB Hybrid is appreciated.
Thanks
Ed
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Grover
Thank you for your reply.
I would like to try the new release build for 2012 when it becomes available.
I will check for it online.
Attached is my, build 6154 AcronisSystemReport_May_3__2012_9_10_47_AM.zip file
ed
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Question remains unanswered; how to backup a seagate momentus drive with acronis??? clone does not work; backup and restore creates a dual partition unbootable media.
Matthew, the type of hybrid drive that you have is the core issue here due to how this presents as two separate drives or partitions, so unless you are recovering to an identical drive there is no solution for this situation.
If you have either ATIH 2016 or 2017 you could try raising this as a Support Case directly with Acronis to see if they can offer any other suggestions on how to proceed, otherwise if you have the 2015 or an earlier version then you are out of luck unless you can find a third-party product that can handle this type of drive better than Acronis does?
Thanks for looking at the issue Steve and responding as an Acronis volunteer. I am reluctant to award Acronis's bad behavior for total lack of performance and support but the new hard drive is now working so here are the steps to clone a Seagate momentus Hybrid hard drive to a new hard drive using Acronis 2013.
1) create a Window recovery disk (go to run-> command -> "backup" and it will lead you to the option to create a bootable recovery disk)
2) perform a full disk backup as normal. Acronis will create an image that contains a c: partition, a MBR/partion0, and a un-named partition.
3) restore the c:partition and the MBR/partition0 to the new harddrive as disk restores.
4) restore the un-named partition as a file restore to a new location where the new location is the new c: drive.
5) install the new hard drive to the laptop and reboot(prior steps are done with the new harddrive on USB external cable)
6) you should get "major system error has occurred." black DOS screen. From here restart with the recovery disk and select "repair". Note: you may need the original Win7 Installation disk to do the "repair" which is what i used.
now the next reboot should start quasi-normal and win7 will boot up and start auto correcting the remaining errors.
I tried many other things but i think the above is the critical steps. Other things to try is #1) going to device manager->hard disks->ST95005620AS-> policies tab and unchecking the Enable write cache. #2) do a "as-is" recovery of the C: partition, MBR/Partition0, and un-named which results in you new hard drive with a dual partition image. Then go to file manager and move all files from the small partition to the larger c: partition (mainly you will see a folder called "Boot" and a system file called bootmgr but copy all). Then go to the hardware manager and delete the small partition, expand the large partition, and make the large partition as "active".
Matthew, thank you for documenting your solution to this question.