Recovery issues - Sad Windows 10 upgrade just got worse:
I have been using Acronis true image for over a year for backing up my PC. Never a problem until I now have to restore and can’t get it to work. I think I had a false sense of security that if backup worked recovery should as well.
History: My Windows 7 64-bit Pro ASUS PC was working great. The C: drive is made up of two 256 GB SSDs in RAID 1 and my D: drive is made up of two 1TB SATA drives also in RAID1. I decided it was time to upgrade to Windows 10, which I soon regretted.
Before starting I did a Full PC backup which included both my C and D drives using Acronis True Image version 2015 to my networked WDCloudMirror storage, which is also configured in a RAID 1 configuration. You have to say with all of this redundancy I should be covered right?
Long story short after upgrading to Windows 10 all my USB ports became nonfunctional which means Window 10 booted up great, but then I have no keyboard or Mouse. Try running Windows without a keyboard or mouse. The Mother board did not have PS2 connections, so I was figuratively screwed.
The last 3 days I have attempted to recover my PC from the backup made a few hours before the attempt to upgrade to Windows 10 with no success. I was able to get the C: drive to restore enough that the PC will reboot back into Windows 7, but I got random read errors during the recovery process. I could select retry and the recovery continues, but at the last 10-15 seconds the application seems to hand up for minutes and eventually completes. Sometimes it with indicate failed and other times no message. In all cases when I check the status of my D: drive it shows up as unallocated. I have totally reformatted the D drive using Windows Drive manager. (Quick and Long formats). D is showing up as a valid drive in Windows file explorer and it also shows up when selecting Acronis recovery so I tell it to restore C to C and D to D. I have even selected the "Verify" option prior to restore and no problems were reported. So far everything I try ends up with the D drive being changed for a healthy partition to unallocated. I also attempted to just restore D to D and the application runs for hours displaying the GBs being recovered, but I ended up with the same unallocated disk.
Open for any suggestions at this point. Since I actually have never needed to use the recovery mode maybe I am doing something wrong. The backup file is a single Full recovery file, which has a size that would indicate data from both C and D drives must be there. Unless someone has any ideas, my next attempt will be to turn off RAID on C and D and go back to single drives. Raid is at the mother board level, so I don't think it will help, but not ready to give up yet. Appreciate all suggestions at his point.
Best Regard,


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