Restoring from backup is tougher than expected
Hi guys, I bought 10 licenses of Acronis for my machines. I've been having issues since day 1 with them. Basically, I have a mix of computers from macs to pcs. The main issue is the PCs. Some are bought from Dell and others are DIY. The machines I am having issues with is the one made by a company that is now defuncted.
Basically, the idea was to use Acronis to "image" my drive so that every month, I could easily just revert back to a brand new machine without installing all my applications again. I suppose I am not very good with computers, especially windows as I have no had any luck thus far.
I initally thought it would be as simple as just double clicking on the image but Acronis told me to install that boot disk thing. Thing is, the USB doesn't work. I've gone to the bios to change it to boot from USB key, USB Floppy, USB anything. No luck. I don't know the motherboard brand as it is probably been flashed into its own as the computer sees it as the brand that is now defuncted.
Please help. I just wanna restore. I've been too busy since I got it and now my phone support is out and I have 10 useless licenses if I don't get this going. Are there other ways?
I am using Windows 10 Pro with Acronis True Image 2015 Build:6613
I tried the Unviversal Restore Media Builder, created linux as well as windows variants and also changed my boot up from Legacy to UEFI which didn't help. ended up in some shell command area upon boot.


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Hey Steve,
Thanks for the prompt reply. Sorry, I think my mac years are catching up to me. It is really not working.
So I went to "Backup" and clicked on recover disk, selected the backup and also clicked on recover partitions. The second I hit recover, It pops up a warning saaying a computer restart is required & if I choose not to, the operation will be cancelled. I click on restart. And I end up right back where I last was. I am so confused.
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Also, under tools
- Rescue Media Builder
That basically tells me to create bootable rescue media
if I click on
- Acronis Unversal Restore
That also tells me to create a bootable media as well
One more thing to point out. I've got a partition of the main hard drive where the back up resides. All I truly wanted was a software to do a quick double click and restore based on what i backed up. Whats the easiest way to do this for acronis as this isn't working out for me.
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Wen Hao Tan wrote:So I went to "Backup" and clicked on recover disk, selected the backup and also clicked on recover partitions. The second I hit recover, It pops up a warning saaying a computer restart is required & if I choose not to, the operation will be cancelled. I click on restart. And I end up right back where I last was. I am so confused.
When you take the option to do this type of recovery from within Windows, then Acronis will always need to restart in order to create a temporary Linux OS environment from which to do the recovery, and will also need to modify your Windows boot configuration to use this Linux OS. This in itself can be a problem, especially if your system has UEFI & Secure Boot enabled, which may prevent Linux from booting.
I would always recommend creating the Acronis bootable Rescue Media to do this type of recovery - this will always be needed if you suffer a hard disk failure and need to do a bare-metal recovery (with no Windows available).
If you backup image resides on a separate partition on the same physical drive that you are restoring to, then it is essential that you do not do a full disk recovery as this will wipe that other partition, so you need to select only the partition to be restored and point this at the correct target partition.
There is no simple double click method of restoring an OS backup with this product.
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