Trying to restore Acronis backup to SSD after hard drive started failing - boot not working
Hi. I bought a new western digital mybook with included Acronis software so that I could back up a new HP Envy laptop running windows 8, with touch screen supported as a new feature of 8. I made an Acronis backup to the western digital mybook. I did a test restore and it restored fine. Recently the computer got super slow and I realized the hard drive was failing. Well HP diagnostics says it is. I attemped scandisk etc, and it keeps reporting the same issues. It takes ten mins to boot and can barely run a web browser. So, I got a samsung 850 Evo and plan to restore the acronis backup to it.
It restored to the new drive. Then got a screen telling me "you're computer needs to be repaired". I wanted to try something else, so I downloaded a win 8 disc. The first time I booted from the DVD it switched to loading windows off the evo without asking. And for the first time it worked! But I rebooted and got the same message about needing repair. Next time I loaded the DVD it let me go into windows 8 menus under fix computer, but said it could not do the repair. It pointed me to a log with error. "The operating system version is incompatible with Startup Repair".
So acronis almost works except for not loading windows. I tried a couple times to get it to do repairs, and wound up with a newer error, windows 8 error code 0xc0000225. And that's all it does now. I can have Acronis restore again.. But before doing this I'd like to ask what steps am I supposed to take to get Acronis to restore my backup so it boots only from the drive? I am stuck because everything I thought of doesn't seem to work. I'm using Acronis True Image WD Edition from 2013, bought with a 4TB MyBook drive. The backup is Windows 8.1. The lap top is HP Envoy TouchSmart 17, 16GB. thanks.


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Hi. thanks for your quick reply. I tried a few ideas in case something would work. The drives are UEFI and it's still a fairly recent laptop, i7 and being that it has some good hardware and is upper end, it will likely hang around a while. As for acronis, I had originally worried about not being able to back it up at the time windows 8 came out. So that's why I waited 1.5 years after 8 came out for the laptop and for acronis. I also read quite a bit on what acronis purported it would do, along with reviews. I understand (sort of), that an older version could be bundled with a drive if it were called say acronis 2012.. but this was bought almost going into 2014. It was a good deal, with the catch being that you don't get to use all the nifty features unless you upgrade. However it's one feature "backup" was there, and while I realize you have no control over this, I'd hope they'd support that one feature as it was advertised. But who knows, maybe they are like that. Which would mean if someone bought a new lap top with windows 10 on it 1.5 years after it came out, and the person got a WD drive with Acronis 2017 or 2018, maybe it would not be able to backup. But either way..
So I tried to restore several different ways. I found out that I had 3 backups, and I was thorough about including all the partitions and making sure MBR was checked, even though that's auto. They were full backups with all partitions. I finally decided to mount the evo in the system and restore in the laptop. Not a thing I tried would work, and I have done this easily in years past with XP and windows 7 and even before that.. One big issue was every thing I tried with the orginal hard drive started locking up even though it would boot. At least I knew I had the full boot files, along with the recovery partition. I tried to copy those and it didn't work out. For whatever reason, it seemed to have trouble restoring everything needed to boot.
Then I got an idea. I removed everything off the evo and simply installed windows 8 from the disc I made. It came up nicely. Really strange is it automatically activated itself without me entering a key. I guess newer windows knows how to do this with newer hardware. My windows 7 setup doesn't work like that. After this, I installed the acronis software, hooked up the drive, and had it restore over the C: partition the backup that was made which includes all drivers and settings. That worked like a charm. It's too bad I couldn't just restore the backups, but at this point I was sort of burned out and had written over a TB to the new drive. So at least I have a way, which is just to install windows which has no problems making a bootable partition, then restoring the data over the partition. So it's working for now. Thanks for now, I appreciate it.
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