Cloning Disk - Reboot Required
I just installed Acronis 2012 on a Windows 7 machine. This machine never has had any version of Acronis on it before. I am backing up to a Western Digital external USB hard drive.
After starting the cloning process following the Automatic method once Acronis starts to calculate the time remaining I continually receive an error message that a reboot is required.
I have rebooted several times and still receive this same message.
Help! Thanks!


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I have this same problem when trying to clone my internal laptop HD to an external USB HD.
Windows 7 machine. This machine never has had any version of Acronis on it before. I am backing up to a external USB hard drive.
After starting the cloning process following the Automatic method once Acronis starts to calculate the time remaining I continually receive an error message that a reboot is required.
I have rebooted several times and still receive this same message every time I try.
Pat L - Your disk clone solution is totally impractical . I am not willing to do what you have said ...
"""If you have a laptop, you should take your disk out of the laptop, put it in an external enclosure, put your new disk in the laptop and clone from the recovery CD from the outside encluse to the new disk. """
The very upsetting thing is that nowhere on the Acronis website do they say that you have to do this in order to clone a drive. They do not mention any of what you said in their advertising. All I can say is that if that is the only way to clone a laptop HD to an external USB HD and I mean "Clone" not "Backup" then I am going to demand a refund and find a different product as I feel like I have been duped!
Unhappy at the moment! :(
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If you are interested in auto cloning check out....
Casper:
http://www.fssdev.com/
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Leon,
The reason is that often the disk geometry of a laptop disk is different from other disks, so it is better to do this "reverse" clone.
Leon, is your objective to try to boot on your clone? Or is it to be able to get your system back to where it was in case of a disaster?
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my objective is have 2 laptops with the exact same OS, Programs, settings, configurations, data.
Arconis chat support has been helping try to resolve the issue for sometime now. I hope we can get there as they are being very patient and helpful so far.
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Regarding post #3, you may have an interest in this link. http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ATIH2012/index.html#9042.h… and the 2012 help files along the left margin.
In the laptop happens to be a Thinkpad, a reverse clone works best due the IBM special disk geometry.
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GroverH wrote:Regarding post #3, you may have an interest in this link. http://www.acronis.com/support/documentation/ATIH2012/index.html#9042.h… and the 2012 help files along the left margin.
In the laptop happens to be a Thinkpad, a reverse clone works best due the IBM special disk geometry.
Thanks for the tips .. its a VAIO .. still in chat with support but getting closer to a solution I hope.
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Rather than post the generic help article explaining how to clone a disk an entirely different way, why not address the actual issue of how to make a clone from an internal SDD to an external SSD. Someone even graduated from crayons to highlighters.
After downloading 280+mb of special purpose software, I was left with the same dim-wit restart failure.
The "restart required" notification was barely visible long enough to be read.
This is all the time I will waste with this pathetic software that cannot do even the most basic of things.
Again.. 280+mb.. What are you fools doing?
Fortunately. I did not have to buy it, a link with key was provided with my new Crucial SSD. But still furious that I gave the time to and mobile bandwidth to download it.
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You're posting in an OLD forum from 5 years ago (last update before yours was back on Wed, 2011-08-31 12:10). There are lots of clone articles... I'm not sure the software is the problem here though as it works fine for me and many others in the forum. Also, when you say "you fools" you're addressing the user form, as we are all USERS just like you, trying to help each other out . The V in my MVP badge is "volunteer".
It is not possible to boot Windows on an external drive (natively, there are 3rd party tools that allow this, but it is against Microsoft's licensing policy) - this is a Windows limitation. It would be FOOLish to try and do this since Microsoft does not allow or support it unless you have an Enterprise version of Windows and Windows-2-go.
The "free" key you received with your Crucial version was supplied by Crucial as part of your purchase of the hard drive. This software is an OEM version and is heavily modified by Crucial (imposing many limitations), it is also based off of a much older version of Acronis (likely 2015) that is not kept up to date by the OEM. As such, Acronis does not support these version and it is the responsibility of the OEM provider (Crucial in this case to support it). 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products
Here are some videos and documentation on how to clone. As it sounds like you're trying to clone while booted from Windows, that is the issue. Your Bios is restricting the loading of the Linux kernel. You should be using your rescue media to start the clone while Windows is not active. If you have secure boot enabled, or certain other bios settings, you may need to tweak those to boot your rescue media as well. Also, if you have unique hardware or are using RAID, you may need to use WinPE rescue media and inject custom drivers into it to detect your RAID controller. Start with building default rescue media and booting it and then try to clone. You also want to make sure you start the rescue media in the proper mode that yoru OS was installed as (UEFI or legacy). Just like Windows installers limitations, how you boot your rescue media is important.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itpro/windows/plan/windows-to-go-ov…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlXkYKzY6vs
http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATI2017/#30481.html
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/125166#comment-387534
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donotliketowastetime wrote:Someone even graduated from crayons to highlighters.
Personally, I'm a big fan of crayons. I used to love getting a new box for Christmas.
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Nothing wrong with crayons either though they don't play well with highlighters, tend to smudge the colours!
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What about crayons followed by a black watercolour wash? I recall doing that. Virtually fill the page with crayon drawings, then wash over with black watercolour. It makes the scene dramatic and makes the colours pop.
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