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Installed 2015 TI: Killed Boot Drive

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I installed 2015 TI build 6525 on a Windows 7 machine. It upgraded 2013 TI. I took a full backup successfully. The first time I went to reboot the machine, Windows would not start. It automatically ran the startup repair and failed at that. The entire boot drive was dead! Too much of a coincidence! This machine has been running flawlessly, rebooting it every day.

I booted the Media Recovery program and recovered the drive from the full backup. The Windows startup failed again in the same way.

Thanks, bob

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Do you have the Windows installation DVD or a Windows Recovery CD that you would have produced with your machine?

I had a fairly recent backup with TI 2013. Here is what I did:
o Used Media Recovery 2015 to recover the TI 2013 backup. It booted OK.
o Uninstalled TI 2013 (restored with the recovered backup). I thought that maybe the upgrade process was what went wrong.
o Rebooted OK.
o Installed TI 2015 build 6525 again.
o Used TI 2015 recovery to recover some recent files from the original TI 2015 full backup. Worked OK.
o Rebooted just to test it. Not so much to my surprise, the system was completely dead again. There is some boot time driver that TI 2015 installs that completely kills Windows 7 boot. Window Startup Repair can't fix it. What kind of backup software immediately kills a functioning system?

Now I have to go back through the recovery process again. :( But fortunately I have the TI 2013 image that works.

I need some help here from Acronis technical support. I purchased TI 2015, but because of the holidays I was late in installing it, and it appears that Acronis only supports installation for several weeks for installation problems, so my support has run out. This is a SERIOUS installation problem in a backup product. I expect free technical support or my money back.

Thanks, Bob

I just installed TI 2015 and the next time I started the computer Win 7 went into "startup repair" and could not fix. I eventually was able to hit F8 and do an advanced restore to last know good configuration and all is well--for now.

But is seems like there is some problem with installing TI 2015 that screws up the boot record--yes? no?

Has there been any more insight into what appears to be an Acronis problem?

Thanks,

Doug

Do any actual "support people" read these things?!?!? I consider the predicament I went through upon installing TI 2015 to be rather serious and I was lucky to be able to get my Win 7 working again. I don't think it was just a coincidence that the problem occurred right after installing TI and I believe some explanation is warranted!!

Anyone? Anyone?

Doug

No support people read these forums. THis is a user to user forum, and it is very infrequently visited by Acronis employees.

Unless it is a file restore, never do an image restore by starting the operation in Windows.

Don't use the Acronis Startup Recovery Mgr either.

Starting recovery or clone operations in Windows, or switching on ASRM result in the modification of the boot records. In past times, that was risky but generally OK with MBR/BIOS disks. Now, with GPT/UEFI set up it is way more risky.

Another possibility is that when you restored your 2013 image, you didn't restore all the information or 2013 didn't handle your set up right and now Window is missing a device in the boot records. On some computer, this can be a showstopper, for example when a recovery partition is missing.

You may have misunderstood my post. TI 2014 was installed on the computer and all I did was to update/install TI 2015. I did not do any actual running TI 2015 but merely started it after the install just to make sure it had installed correctly. I shut down Win 7 somewhat later and that was all. The next day when I started the computer Windows gave me a Startup Repair screen. I had NEVER seen this before but tried to let it run--no joy. Forced the machine off and then restarted and hit F8 for advanced boot options. I chose to return the machine to last known good configuration and then it started up okay. I am able to run TI 2015 and actually was able to backup the drive. Odd thing is that TI 2015 does not appear in Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel. Apparently when I chose to restore the machine to the last known good configuration it removed whatever problem TI 2015 had caused.

But this is a serious issue and googling a bit it seems like others have had a similar problem, although it might be rare.

I have been using Acronis for quite a few years and it is frankly stunning that there is a basic lack of support for this product except for the 30 day period. I stupidly did not get around to installing until past the 30 day window but it seems to me there should be some basic no fee email support for this product--very disappointed.

Doug