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Acronis 2015 OK for Windows 10?

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I have Acronis 2015 and wanted to check that it was perfectly OK for backing up Windows 10?

I haven't needed to try before...

And need to rely on having my Acronis backup.

I thought I would ask before backing up and then resetting my PC.

Thanks.

 

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hi, Im not sure if I understand you correctly. Are you thinking of using Acronis for the first time with W10, in which case up to now I would say yes, but I have just had a nightmare with my PC follow W10 Anniv update. Amongst the problems was a slow W10 boot time NOT the PC boot. In the end I reinstalled W10 and found that after I installed Acronis 2015 again the slow start reappeared. So Im not sure if its compatible. I tried enabling/disabling the fast start in power options without success. I uninstalled Acronis, and a 5 sec Windows open (using SSD)

If anybody has any ideas as I would rather reinstall than buy something else or use Windows offering

 

ATIH 2015 was the first version which was approved by Acronis for use with Windows 10 having been tested with the OS by the development team, so the official stance is that it is supported in this OS environment.

What has changed over the time that Windows 10 has been available is that there have been a number of major OS upgrades which has introduced significant changes and new features etc, all of which were not available when ATIH 2015 was tested.  This seems to be especially true for the latest Windows 10 Anniversary Update which seems to have caused quite a few problems with a range of different hardware and software products.

One point to make here is that ATIH 2015 can always be used to backup Windows 10 using the Acronis Rescue Media by booting from this completely outside of any Windows OS involvement, even if there are some issues when running inside the OS.

Thanks, I'm not sure what to do, and I'm not helped by the fact that I have almost identical 2 PC's sat side by side, both running W10 Anniv update only mine is causing a problem with ATIH.

I could wait and see if Microsoft do anything soon, but that might weeks or months, and then I'm not sure if its rectfied my issue. Updating to ATIH 2017 may not be the answer either.

 

arrrgh :-)

 

guys i'm now worried and confused!

all my machines are updated from windows 8.

i'm afraid that one day it might all crash and the hard drive will fail - and i'll have no way of getting back!!

BEST ADVICE:

1. boot from CD

2. run a backup onto an external drive.

that way, whatever configurations there are with Windows 10, i'll still be OK?

please confirm.

thanks.

Omar, having an offline backup on an external drive is always a good investment against any future problems, but this should be just one part of your backup strategy, you also be performing backups from within Windows on an appropriate backup schedule to capture the regular changes that is happening to your computer, then testing that you can open and navigate these backups occasionally to check their integrity.

The bootable Rescue Media has the added benefit that you can use it regardless of which version of Windows OS is installed as it is not dependent on even knowing that - it can even be used to backup Linux file systems.

@steve, thanks. i'll do as u suggest.

for backup i have dropbox and onedrive.

i try to stay lean on my usage and keep only essential files there. all other disposable files are kept in one directory.

I have AcronisTrueImage2016_6571 and Acronis 2015 build 6525.   My whole disk backups of Windows 10 have gone without a hitch.  As an experiment I tried to recover a whole disk backup to another external drive to see if would boot.  The backups were with build with a 6525 recovery CD.  It did not matter which recover CD I tried  they both came up with "Recover operation failed".  Right now I'm really concerned.  The target disk was left unallocated by the process.  Did I make the right choice?  I used to use a 32 bit version of Ghost with BartPE until GPT disks came along.   By the way I am still using MBR on all my disks.

What am I doing wrong?

 

an experiment I tried to recover a whole disk backup to another external drive to see if would boot

Windows will never allow you to boot from an external hard drive (natively... there are 3rd party tools that can make this happen, but they are unsupported by Microsoft and go against the license agreement which ties a license to a specific piece of hardware for each installation) - it is a limitation of Windows.  After your recovery, and before you try to boot the OS, put the newly recoverd drive where the original was and then try to boot to see if it works. 

Dan Gregoria wrote:

I have AcronisTrueImage2016_6571 and Acronis 2015 build 6525.   My whole disk backups of Windows 10 have gone without a hitch.  As an experiment I tried to recover a whole disk backup to another external drive to see if would boot.  The backups were with build with a 6525 recovery CD.  It did not matter which recover CD I tried  they both came up with "Recover operation failed".  Right now I'm really concerned.  The target disk was left unallocated by the process.  Did I make the right choice?  I used to use a 32 bit version of Ghost with BartPE until GPT disks came along.   By the way I am still using MBR on all my disks.

What am I doing wrong?

Dan, in addition to Rob's comments, how are you attempting to recover one of your whole disk backups?

I would recommend doing a validation of your backup image to check that they pass this test, plus also run a CHKDSK /F /R for the target external drive you are attempting to recover to.

It is normal that when performing a restore that the target drive will be 'wiped' in order to create the partitions that will be restored from the disk backup image.

When booting from your Acronis Rescue Media CD or DVD or USB stick, you need to do so using the same boot mode as your Windows OS uses.  You can check this via webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS

If you still see the "Recover operation failed" error message, then try using the alternative version of True Image, i.e. if you see this error using the 64-bit version, try again with the 32-bit program.

Thanks for the quick response.  I gave you the wrong  info I guess.  I had pluged in another disk into the same machine -- an IDE big enough for the system partition.  I used this as my recovery target.   That is what failed.  I had to open the case to add  this drive.  As far as testing the hardware:  I ran Memtest86+ for 20 hours on my 16 GB system (4 complete passes -- no errors.)  I ran ChkDsk /R /F on all drives.  I even swapped to a slower dual core processor.  Enclosed is a snap shot of the Acronis boot and an Acronis system status report .  The status report process accessed the USB "stick"  and took a while but produced no output.   Notice the messages of the Acronis boot -- "leaking lvm" occurs many times.

Thanks for your quick response.

By the way "how" can you check the integrety of the backup?   I only have TrueImage 2015 backups.  Should the 2016 version handle them in Recovery mode??  Also I  have a BIOS / MBR environment on this particular system.

 

Thanks again.  -- Dan

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If you switched from SATA to IDE that will also fail - different drivers and different SATA mode in the bios that both cause compatibilty and boot issues.  As a result, you've complicated the restore process by not using similar hardware.  If possible, use another SATA drive and not an IDE drive and you should have better luck.

If you want to try the IDE drive, to test the restore, you'd still want to remove the original drive.  Then, you would want to go into the bios and make sure the SATA mode is set to IDE and not SATA, RAID or AHCI.  

After that, it might boot, but not likely due to your restored OS still expecting SATA drivers and not IDE drivers for the boot disk.  Most likely, you'd need to run universal restore on the target disk (the IDE drive you restored too) to generalize the drivers in the OS... then it might boot correctly.  If not, you can then try a startup repair using the original installer disk or a recovery disk (if you've made one).

Ultimately, just using another disk that is also SATA would probably save you time and trouble, although may cost you some money if you don't already have on available.  Not sure how big your disk is, but you can get a decent 250Gb SSD for roughly $70 if you're not opposed to spending some money. 

To check the integrity of a backup, you can "validate" it using the recovery media:  http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2015/#15916.html

The Acronis boot message -- "leaking lvm" occurring many times caused me to rethink the issue.   I replaced the PSU and it allowed me to recover from an older backup of a simalar machine and that actually  booted the questionable machine.  So thank you all for listening to my bablings.  The only remaining question is how can I validate a "Backup.tib" file after I created one.?

 I'm going to have to re-install Windows 10 to get the functionality I need.  Apparently all the backups I made on the questionable machine with Acronis fail (about 6) to restore.   The ghost32 backups I have in the past have provided a Windows 10 recoverable seed for a Windows 10 repair with automatic activation.

Thanks again -- Dan

P.S.  How can I validate a "Backup.tib" file after I created one?  This is still an issue.