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Clone Win 8.1

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When I try to clone my Win 8.1 drive I'm prompted to restart and restart requests a login in Win 8.1. The login request causes Acronis to abort the process.

How do I workaround this problem?

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Stop trying to clone from. within Windows, clone is to be performed from boot media only.

Your best course is to make a full disk mode backup, which includes all partitions (even hidden ones), to an external HD. That will include everything: Windows; all your settings; all your installed software applications; all your data; ... everything.

Each 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.

Cloning has no advantage over full backup and restore, except a slight time saving at the expense of considerably more risk and complexity.