Win 8.1 64bit Recovery - Actually doesnt Recover anything 6614
Hi all
Tearing my hair out here
Just done a new install of Windows 8.1 64bit
First thing to go on was an older version of Acronis 2014 - then did a back up image of the hard drive
Tried installing a few things ie VLC but then thought lets see if the backup works - everything goes through fine booting from a boot cd and doing the recovery process however the files and programs that were not part of the image are still there so in fact no recovery has took place.
Thought it maybe an issue with old version of acronis so updated to new version 6614 and followed the exact same process as above - new win8.1 install - do image - install a few apps and then try restoring to see if those apps disappear - again the recovery goes through fine but the apps I installed since the image are still there
Im at a loss???
Anybody else experienced this
Update: OK Ive now tried the exact same process on my laptop with a single ssd drive
Acronis works with no issues - great
So for some reason its not working correctly on the missus laptop
She had a Inspiron 14z with a 32gb msata cache drive and a normal 500gb drive
Any ideas anyone.......no idea why this is happening
Most likely it's due to cache drive. It's not recognized from bootable media and only the main hdd is restored. See also - http://forum.acronis.com/forum/35729
That link isn't working for me - says im unauthorised - so is Acronis not compatible with cache drives??
Is there a way around it ??
Thanks
Well ive managed to find away around this
Im my case I disabled RST in Windows then did a backup image - installed a few apps and then restored the PC with RST still disabled in WINDOWS only not in the bios and it worked - the apps I installed after the image were gone!! Yay
Im not sure if you have to disable RST when doing the image (which I did) or you have to disable just when restoring the image
Either way its just a couple of click and it works