Clone did not work...but

I used the full BOOT CD of 2014 and I cloned my Win XP 160 gig drive to another 160 gig Velociraptor drive I just got from Ebay. I tried to boot from it and low and behold.....it booted....but...nothing worked. LOL First time ever Acronis failed me in cloning a drive. So...what I did was use the 2010 Edition that was installed on my XP.....Guess what...worked perfectly. You'd think a 4 year old version would work worse, but it didn't...it worked better. As for the Universal Restore function...I'd be in trouble but I won't be swapping mobos for awhile.

Good luck. I wish someone knew why my built in OS Acronis worked better than the Boot up version....that's blowing my mind.

So anyone still having an XP on their system, you might want to get an older version just as a test. I can confirm that using 2010 worked...heck, the last version that worked fine using Win 7 was 2013. So far this 2014 version, hasn't done anything for me but give me headaches and waste my time. I will try to use the 2014 version to backup my dynamic disks....that somehow got created by accident. I had 2 separate drives that contained a lot of gigs that I needed one 1 500 gig drive. I cloned each partition onto the 500 gig and it worked but the 500 gig drive as a whole is now a dynamic disk which cannot be backed up by older versions. So don't make the mistake I did. I really had to mess around with Disk Director too to figure things out...was a real pain. I almost thought it wasn't going to be possible and I was giving myself a nervous breakdown trying to transfer my entire computer over to new hardware....but I did get everything to work after much ado....this was in 2011 (Xmas time)