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Windows 10 + bitlocker + Acronis => "Cannot find the partition selected for backup"

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Since I put bitlocker on in Windows 10, Acronis has given me the error message : "Cannot find the partition selected for the backup." Difficult to understand why... I used it for many years with Windows 7 and it worked perfectly well. Does any one knows what happens?

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I do not know the reason. Did you try to uninstall ati, reboot and reinstall it?

Hi Pat!

Thank you very much for your reply.

I think that there is some kind of bug within Acronis-Windows 10-bitlocker. If I ask to back up a partition it doesn't work. However, if I ask to back up files, it does work. In addition, when I ask to back up a partition, Acronis seems to think that it is full (approximately 100 G), even if there is very little that is taken by files (approximately 10 G).

At present, I do my backups asking to backup files instead of partitions. I just hope that it is ok...

Have a great day!

John

Yeah.. When you back up a partition protected by bitlocker in 2015, you end up with the equivalent of a sector by sector backup (ie every sector is included, even those on which there is no data tracked by the file system).
This is a long standing issue with 2015, and it should be solved by ATI 2016, which shoul dbe released in the next couple of weeks.