Newbie having problems cloning
I am trying to clone or copy my system from one laptop to a new laptop. I have not experienced any crashes or other system failures, just trying to learn how to do this before it becomes an emergency.
I have created the Universal System Restore, and Rescue Boot Media on a USB flash. I thought I had cloned my system to a WD external hard drive. However, when I try to restore the system to the new computer, I get a message the the "backup file is not the latest file"
I tried to create another clone, and received a message that the disk was full - it is a 1TB hard drive, I can't image it is full!
I am really hoping someone can explain what I'm doing wrong.
Thank you in advance!


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Thank you,
Yes, I am confused about terminology. I spent yesterday making a full disk backup (5+ hours?), but when I attempt to recover this morning, I get a message that says there are no items to display?
I will try to outline the steps I'm taking:
1. Used Recue Media Builder to create rescue boot media on a USB Flash Drive
2. Ran a backup using Acronis 2016, using backup source "this pc". Backed up to a 1TB External HD.
3. Attempt to boot to new computer. a. select boot menu, b. select UEFI Memorex Mini (USB). c. I get the following message:
Starting UEFI Loader (x64) (v. 1.1.42)
Select and item by using the keyboard:
1. Acronis Universal Restore (64 bit with UEFI Support)
2. Acronis True Image (64 bit)
3. Acronis System Report (64 bit)
c. Continue booting
I choose 2. Acronis True Image. This opens a menu that says "what would you like to do?" I select "Recover", I select Disk Recovery, Recover your computer from a backup, and it gives me the message "no items to display". I try to browse to find the external hard drive - find it, select the latest .tib file (which is not dated yesterday btw) and I get a message that "This is not the last volume of the backup archive" -
What am I doing wrong? Thank you very much in advance for your help.
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Well, your source of backup of "This PC" would not be correct. When you open the True Image app in the right hand window of the GUI you will see at this point the last backup task you created with the source being shown on the left and the destination on the right. Since it is obvious this backup is not going to work for you I suggest that you look to the center window of GUI where the backup task name is listed. To the right of that name you will see a down arrow caraf that looks like a V in a circle. Click on that and you will get a menu, in the menu select Delete, then select Whole Backup. This will remove the backup task from the list and the backup file created by that task.
Now presuming you have no other tasks defined in the list the view in the right hand window will change to that of source being Entire PC on the left and destination on the right. Since this is a laptop I would assume that it only has one hard disk drive so the Entire PC as source will work for you. If you do have another hard drive (internal) in the laptop then you would need to switch to Disk and Partition mode backup. If that is the case you can do so by clicking on the Entire PC icon and get to that mode. Doubt this is the case however.
Next click on the destination icon and configure your destination target folder location for the backup file which will be created, sounds like you have that one figured out so will not elaborate.
Now click on the Options button that you see at the bottom of the GUI. In the Schedule tab select Do Not Schedule. Click on the Backup scheme tab and in the drop down scheme box select Custom scheme. In the Backup method dropdown box select Full. Next click on the Exclusions tab. You will see a list of exclusions that will not be included in the backup file by default. Since you are wanting to create a backup of your entire drive you will want to modify this list. You will see at the top of the list a check box that by default should have a check mark in it that says "Files matching the following criteria. If you uncheck that box then all exclusions will be ignored. It is up to you haw you choose to configure this.
Once you have your exclsions set you can click on the Ok button and then Back up now on the next screen.
Now when you get to the point of actually restoring this backup to another new laptop you would do this.
Boot new laptop to the Recovery Media as you outlined above.
Locate the backup file that you created above in the destination folder location that you chose.
Select that as the Souce image to be restored. Make sure that all partitions listed are selected by checkmark.
Proceed to the destination which would of course be the new laptop system drive selecting it as target for restore.
Select proceed. You will probably get a message that all data on destination/target will be erased, acknowledge and the recovery should start.
When the recovery starts you will see options to shutdown computer after complete. I always select this so that the PC will shutdown after the restore has run.
Once the PC shutsdown you will need to reboot back into the Recovery media again and this time select and run the Universal Restore tool. If it asks for drivers just click through that and let the app run. This process will look for, identify, and install appropriate drivers for the New laptiop into the old system disk so that boot is possible without driver conflict. Once that process has completed you can close it down and boot the PC normally.
Now I would advse that before you transfer your old system backup file onto your new laptop that you create a backup of that new laptop just in case you wish to revert back to it for some reason or the above fails to produce a working result you will have something to fall back on.
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Thank you so very much! I was able to complete the transition!
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Great, now there is one more task to clean things up. Visit your new laptops manufacturer support site and download all the latest drivers for your machine. Save them to a location on your hard drive or a flash drive so that you will know where they are. Go into Windows Device Manager and first look for any exclamation marks next any entries there. Try to determine what components these are if possible. Those that you can figure out select them by a click on the component name, now right click on them which will give you a new menu, select update driver. You will have 2 choices here, let Windows search for drivers, or manually select driver location. Choose the manually select location. Now use the browse function that appears to point to the path where you saved the files you downloaded. Windows should be able to locate the files and install them.
If any of your driver download files have extentions .exe or .msi instead of using Device Manager to install them simply right click on those and select run as administrator. These will install themselves by doing so.
After you have updated all the device driver files you will have a fully up to date new machine, Enjoy!!
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Thank you so much!! I appreciate it your help, got all the drivers updated!
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Perfect, enjoy your success! We like to see success stories here so thanks for posting your results
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