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TrueImage 2011 cloning stopped working

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After the latest round of Windows XP updates and Acronis updates, the cloning utility no longer works. Anyone else having this problem? Anyone know the workaround?
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Hello Sue,

Thank you for posting. I will definitely help you.

I would really appreciate if you can provide more details about the issue:

1. AcronisInfo report.

2. Exact steps taken to reproduce this issue.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Hey guys,

I don't understand something here.

My purchased TrueImage 2011 has since it's purchase a number of years ago, always been a stand alone program on a CD, the HD cloning function of which was able to run without Windows7 itself being active and/or being able to influence the process. It was not necessary to INSTALL anything because the auto-executable program functioned directly from the CD.  I never had a problem with it ..... until the automatic update to Windows10 came along. Now suddenly the cloning process no longer works, even although no physical source or destination HD changes have been made.

On one occasion my HD had suddenly died on me, was physically replaced by the cloned HD, after which I was able to continue my work as though almost nothing had happened. Obviously a new clone was immediately made to a newly purchased HD and I was very happy with my Acronis True Image 2011 CD.

The thing I do not understand is that any cloning process should normally boil down to a basic "bit by bit" copy and write process from one HD to another and should furthermore be completely independent of the actual contents of the source HD.

Can anyone tell me why a source HD containing amongst others, a Windows10 installation, can now suddenly no longer be cloned. Must I now purchase a new True Image CD ?

Any reactions are appreciated.

Regards

Hans

Netherlands

 

 

Hans, welcome to these public User Forums.

Your ATI 2011 CD uses a very old version of BusyBox Linux from which to boot your computer but which given the 8 or 9 years since it was created does not know about many of the features of modern BIOS systems or the hardware devices that such computers now use.

If your computer uses UEFI / GPT then this is not supported by ATI 2011 as came later than this version.

Newer computers also use NVMe M.2 type SSD drives that use the PCIe interface for which Linux has no support in such old versions.