Using True Image fix!
Hi , I just wanted to put this tutorial out here. Anyone thinking of buying a crucial ssd and using this software to clone a drive, save yourself time and DONT. Acronis true image is the most godawful peice of trash I've ever encountered. I have been trying to fix issue after issue for 36 hours! You click on anything be prepared to wait 20-30 minutes for it to even move on to the next menu. The best part is it won't look any different and will get stuck for hours, and you don't know if it's working or hanging. I've tried countless fixes, reinstalled 5 times, it loads up your startup with a ton of crap and makes a restart tthatake 15 minutes. I can't wait to return this peice of crap and get something that doesn't use this joke of a program. They want you to pay 40$ for a program that doesn't work.. just to clone a F!%$ing drive. GtFO. Run from this BS.


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I really don't understand why this is so difficult the video on crucial is saying how easy it is. My pc comes to a halt as soon as I open acronis and goes in and out of not responding. I have tried everything. All I want to do is switch out my hdd for my new ssd. I have tried using a USB, I've tried connecting to sata. I've tried making a full backup. I can't even get it to start. I'm going into settings and changing things that I have no idea about. I don't have an extra drive to backup before cloning so I want to make a full backup on the sdd and restore from there. What am I missing? Windows is updated, I have run the clean up utility and reinstalled acronis 6 times now. Every time it just goes to not responding.. what the hell?
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Should I reinstall windows? I need to get this fixed I'm on day 4 now, sick of this. Please, just tell me what I need to do to make acronis ATI work? I'm not the only one facing these issues what is the problem?
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Sorry but I have no knowledge of how Crucial are advising you to use their OEM version of Acronis software in their video but it sounds very much as if you are attempting to clone from within Windows which can be fraught with difficulties.
What is the actual state of play here?
What type of PC is involved here? Is it a desktop / tower PC or is it a laptop / notebook one?
Is the PC still working normally from the original HDD, i.e. can it boot into Windows correctly?
What BIOS boot mode does the PC use? You can run the Windows command: msinfo32 and look at the BIOS mode value shown in the right panel of the report it produces - this should show UEFI if you have a modern computer, otherwise it might show either Legacy or the name / make of the HDD disk if an older computer.
The first very important step you need to take is to make a full disk backup of your working HDD to an external storage drive - this is your safety net so you can get back to a working system if things don't go well!
Next, you should create the 'Simple' version of the Acronis Rescue Media - use an USB stick (2GB min size up to 32GB max) or else a DVD disc.
Test that you understand how to and can boot your PC from the rescue media using the correct matching BIOS mode used by your Windows OS.
Once you have done all the above, then the easiest method of migrating to the new SSD is to shutdown the PC, remove the HDD and replace it by the new SSD. Set aside the HDD in a safe place away from any interaction with the following steps.
Boot the PC using the rescue media with your backup storage drive connected, then recover the backup of the HDD to the new SSD.
If all completes successfully, then disconnect the storage drive and rescue media, then reboot the PC from the SSD.
See my YouTube channel for videos showing some of the above.
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