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Acronis True Image Home 2017 build 5554 on a Dell XPS 8900 desktop.  This is a fairly high end machine with the latest greatest hardware.  Dell XPS 8900  Drivers were updated to the latest.  No BIOS update available.  Target drive for the backup is a Seagate 2TB "Backup Slim Plus Ultra Metal Rescue Edition Model SRD00F1" USB 3.0 drive.  Whew.

When I boot from the Acronis 2017 build 5554 Recovery CD, everything works normally.  The drive proceeds to backup all 4 partitions on the Dell to the USB hard disk in what appears to be a normal manner.  However, about 2/3 of the way through, it suddenly goes black screen and reboots.  No error messages visible on the screen.  No files were created on the USB drive.  I've also tried using several different USB 3.0 drives.  All crash and exit in approximately the same manner and place.  Buffer overflow perhaps?

Next, I tried to do a backup using last years Acronis True Image Home 2016 build 6581.  It worked normally and without a crash and exit.  Therefore, there seems to be something wrong with 2017 build 5554.

I noticed that the backup speed of 2017 was much faster than 2016.  I was getting approximately 10GB/min with 2017 (until it crashed), but only about 5GB/min with 2016.  I love the improved speed, but not at the expense of reliability and stability. 

I'll have the machine for another 5 days to do experiments and tests.  Any fixes, patches, workarounds, or experimental builds available?

 

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It might take longer but I would try using one of the USB 2.0 ports to see if the problem persists.  If it does than there could be something wrong with the installation.  If it works then I would think a hardware issue on the machine.

Don't connect via a hub, a port in a monitor, or a USB extension cord, etc. Connect the external drive directly to a USB port on the rear of the computer case.
 

Jeff, 

You might also want to give the WinPE rescue media a shot (I would recommend it anyway as it has better driver support).  Grab the windows 10 ADK and install the top 3 options (3.4Gb, but it comes in handy).  

Then, grab the MVP WinPE media builder and follow the prompts - it will build it with IRST RAID controller drivers injected (you can grab the full Dell WinPE10 driver pack or the Dell driver pack for your specific model and add those too - although should not be necessaryl http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-client/w/wiki/11530.winpe-10-driver-pack)  If you do, make sure you extract the .cab file and only add the 64-bit drivers and leave out the x86 ones.

MVP WinPE builder and Windows 10 ADK links are down below.  I think you'll really like the WinPE and the way we've customized it.