Installation of Home Protect Failed - Caused PC's not to boot anymore
My True Image 2021 support was expiring, so I decided to purchase the Home Protect software at the sale price. I downloaded the software and tried to install it on one of my PC's. The installation failed, so I tried it a second time but that installation also failed. So I tried to restart my PC, but there was a boot failure. I was able to restore the boot up procedure but I called Acronis tech support who worked on my PC via TeamViewer.
He tried many things, but the installation always failed and then the boot failure couldn't be repaired. So then we tried to install Home Protect on my other PC and it also failed and also created a boot failure that could never be repaired. After being on the phone for a long time, I hung up because nothing was working.
Then I took my PC's to a local tech shop and they had a hard time restoring the PC's and they also tried to install Home Protect which failed and made the PC's unbootable. After 4 days without my PC's and costing me over $425, my PC's were repaired and now they are working correctly.
My only compensation is a refund for the Home Protect software ($30), so I'm pretty frustrated. Both my PC's are vanilla Windows 10 (Pro and Home) and I've never had a problem like this with other installations. Acronis seemed to imply that this was a problem with Windows and that I should contact Microsoft which is virtually impossible to get any help from Microsoft. Software developed for Windows should conform to the operating system and not cause problems like this.
I'm sending this out to warn others about this issue and to be careful with installing Home Protect. Make sure your PC's are backed up prior to trying the installation so you can more easily recover than with my situation.


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Steve Smith wrote:Gary, welcome to these public User Forums.
Sorry to read of your multiple issues here with attempting to install ACPHO and especially this rendering the PC's unable to boot after failing!
I definitely agree with your final paragraph that making a full backup before making any significant change to the system is very strongly recommended. This has to apply to Acronis backup applications too due to the very low level / kernel level access that they require in order to operate normally.
+1
I doubt that the problem is caused by Windows 10; if it were there would be many more reports of this happening. I suppose it could be an interaction between Windows 10, ACPHO and one or more other applications. Cannot think what application would cause this to happen.
I only run ACPHO on one of my PCs. Do not recall any installation issues such as these - but I would at some stage have done an in place upgrade from ATI 2021. Had a series of other problems with the PC in question, which were traced to a faulty RAM module. Had several aborted attempts to upgrade to Windows 11 that included two instances of PC that would not boot. But that is not in play here.
Ian
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