TIH processes clone, but when reboots, goes directly to origin OS
TIH2015 was working fine last week, but when I went to make a newer clone, it went through the process normally and then rebooted. But instead of making the clone, it reboots back into my existing OS.
The older clone shows up on Windows Explorer and I can access data in it. But TIH isn't
making a new clone.
This has happened on three days earlier this week with Win8.1 and again today after upgrading to Win10.
What is needed to for it to follow through and make the clone?

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thomasjk wrote:Are you cloning using the recovery disk?
No, using TIH as an application inside Windows. This way worked perfectly a couple of weeks ago and twice a month before that.
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Its highly recommended here that you perform cloning and any operation requiring a reboot from the Recover Disk/USB drive. Did you get any errors? When you say you made a newer clone do you already have a cloned drive in your computer or did you mean you actually made a "disk image" backup? If have two identical cloned drives in your machine windows will become confused and not know which is the boot drive.
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I've been cloning my hard drive regularly using TI2015 inside Windows, not the recovery disk (which I have and tested). Just this past week I ran into the problem described here. TI begins the process, it lets me select the origin drive and the destination drive, tells me there's data on the destination drive and I OK it. Then it tells me to reboot, which I do. Windows closes (showing Restart on the screen) and then, instead of cloning the drive, it just reboots back into my origin drive. There are no error messages.
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Try the clone using the recovery disk.
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I tried to make a clone with a different hard drive as the destination disk and it worked. I did not use the recovery disk. I think I may have a problem with the drive I was trying to clone to.
The reason I haven't regularly used the recovery disk is that I have to shut down and reboot twice with the recovery disk and only once (after the clone is done) when I use TI in Windows. If Acronis designed TI to work within Windows, why would it be better to shut down and then boot with the recovery disk to use it?
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When TI restarts with Windows it actually boots Linux to do the cloning. Running from the recovery disk eliminates any unwanted interaction with Windows during the cloning process. I don't understand why you have to reboot twice but I'm not running 2015.
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