Everything clones & nothing restores
So I just upgraded from XP to Win7 x64: so also upgraded from Acronis 2009 to 2012.
I have three identical discs.
One was cleaned and wiped and had Win7 plus data plus applications loaded (including Acronis 2012).
One of the other disks was wiped and cleaned and used as the clone disk.
I ran 'Clone' and the operation appeared to have worked. I installed the 'clone' and turned on the PC.
It failed to boot.
It was not accessible as an additional drive.
I wiped the disk on another PC and installed XP on it - it works fine.
I wiped the disk again and have tried twice more to clone the disk and it fails utterly.
What am I missing?
Why won't the 2012 version clone Win7 x64? Any hints / help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon
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My best advice for the future: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.
There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they has instead used Backup.
1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.
2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left column of this forum, particularly ATIH 2012 - Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.
A full disk backup, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include.
The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.
Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.
Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.
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My thanks to you both for you guidance on this - it's been driving me up the wall!
So for years I've been doing it the hard way when I should have just read the flippiin' manual and done it the easy way!
I'll give that a go over the weekend, see what happens and post back.
Cheers.
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