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Acronis 2018 n0t recovering full image

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After making a couple of full backups with my Acronis 2018 I decided to try them to make sure everything was ok. I selected recovery then selected the full backup I wanted from my external HDD then started the recovery process and restarted my computer when prompted. The computer restarted but it did not do the recovery backup I had chosen, it seems it was just a restart and not a recovery that had occurred. The recovery was selected in windows Acronis and not using the usb on starting the computer, ie not booting into windows way. 

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Please create a recovery drive (USB thumb drive or CD/DVD).  Ensure you can boot the recovery drive and that it sees your Operating System drive and your drive with your backup images. *****Also, ensure you boot the recovery drive to match your OS install type!!!!  If you have a UEFI OS install, boot it in UEFI mode.  If you have a legacy (MBR) OS install, boot it in legacy mode.  Each motherboard has different options how to do this with the one time boot menu - you may need to check your motherboard documentation if you're not sure how.

There is an Acronis KB article that explains this a little bit:

59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

I would discourage any full system recovery attempts from the application as it must reboot the machine, load up the Linux version of Acronis (changing the default boot of the Windows OS to Acronis) and then attempt to restore.

1) This change could render your system unbootable if it fails and can't revert itself back from Acronis to the normal Windows OS.

2) The Linux recovery environment may not have the necessary drivers to support certain hardware (PCIE NVME hard drives in RAID mode and some others as well as certain USB 3.0/3.1 controllers). If it can't detect your drive, then it should revert back to the Windows OS, but if something goes wrong, you could be stuck with an unbootalble system.

And, as a last word of caution!!!

Please don't test on a perfectly working drive.  Instead, if possible, remove the original and test on a new (or used, but different) drive.  That way, if things go badly, for any reason, you can just swap in your good and working drive again.  If you test just for the fun of testing, be prepared for the results - good or bad (this goes for any backup and recovery product).

I strongly suggest you get the MVP recovery media builder which is a Sticky in the 2019, 2018 and 2017 threads and build your rescue media with it (a small USB thumb drive would be preferred - 2Gb up to 32Gb, but you only need about 1Gb total space)