Try and Decide if reboot required
I wanted to test a new application that apparently installs special drivers. I turned on Try and Decide, but I ran into a brick wall.
The system restarted into the Acronis system loader and offered me the choice of continuing or discarding my changes, but the only option that worked was discard. If I tried to accept the changes, the system just rebooted into the Acronis loader again.
Is there any way to use Try and Decide with software that requires a reboot to install?


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Jerry I have used T&D a few times over the years as part of Beta testing, however I do not recall doing so where installation requires a reboot such as you describe.
Ian
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I believe it was SeaTools, in this case, but anything that installs a pseudo-driver could cause this problem.
In other words, the most dangerous stuff won't let you us T&D. An extra full backup is the only solution, I guess.
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Jerry Schwartz wrote:I believe it was SeaTools, in this case, but anything that installs a pseudo-driver could cause this problem.
In other words, the most dangerous stuff won't let you us T&D. An extra full backup is the only solution, I guess.
I've been using T&D for many years. In older versions this feature would work properly. If you quit Windows while in T&D mode, you were given an option to continue in T&D mode or to exit back to where you were before starting T&D.
At some point, T&D would no longer work. I forget if it was a Windows upgrade that caused this or if it was pulled at one point by Acronis.
Then, a newer version of Acronis True Image came out which had T&D again. And from that point forward, if you restart while in T&D mode, it appears to ignore your request to continue in T&D mode and you can only discard. I'm currently using ATI 2019 & 2020 and this is true with both versions. I'm not sure about 2021 or ACPHO.
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My recollection is that Try & Decide was not included in (the original build?) of ATI 2015 - ATI 2015 was a major code update. I can recall testing it when it was reintroduced, but never tested for the issue being discussed here.
Acronis considers Try & Decide to be a important function and will, as I understand it, be the next version of Cyber Protect Home Office, which should be entering beta testing in the near future.
Ian
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