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Restore of drive C requires use of the bootable media

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I was told that it is strongly recommended to use the bootable media when restoring to drive C. ATI should either say that or it should be fixed! This a good time to  fix it since it is under beta test.
 

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I'd agree.  I'm not sure Acronis fully does though as this has been an MVP recommendation for several iterations of major updates now. 

The problem with restoring from within Windows is that if you are restoring the OS, it has to reboot to complete because the OS is currently in use and can't be updated on the fly. 

This triggers ATI to modify the OS disk bootloader and replace it with a temporary Acronis Linux rescue environment. Well, in some cases, it can't boot this because of secure boot or encryption or lack of drivers for systems using RAID or PCIE NVME drives... or if the backup is on a network location (like a NAS) since it severs the connection and doesn't automatically pick up in the rescue environment.  And in some cases, when it can't boot, it fails to properly revert the OS booloader back and then you have an unbootable machine that requires a windows installer disk to repair, or you have to start a restore from rescue media anyway at this point.

There are too many "what-if" or "gotcha scenarios" if a reboot is necessary to complete the C:drive (main OS drive) restore when started from within Windows and the reboot is required 100% of the time when the OS drive is the recovery destination for a disk/partition backup and restore.

Ditto! 

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Ian

PS While I have done successful live clones of system drives, I have always created a full backup first. If the system is mission critical I would not dream of using live clone.