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Guide to ATIH 2014 and Windows 8.1

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Has anyone compiled a list of recommendations for using ATIH 2014 and Windows 8.1? In researching another issue, I have come across the following:

(1) partition backups may not be adequate for bare-metal restores (recommendation to do a disk backup)
(2) cloning should be initiated from a boot disk rather than from Windows
(3) when cloning using an external enclosure, the source drive should be mounted in the enclosure
(4) defrag should be avoided if incremental backups are done (may always have been the case but appears to result in extremely large incremental backups on ATIH 2014/Win 8.1)

Having only recently upgraded to Windows 8.1, the only one I have had experience with is (4). I will try to test (2) and (3) shortly as part of trying to resolve a Windows Update issue.

What has the community experience been? Are there other things Windows 8.1 users should be watching out for?

Thanks, Norbert

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You may want to review Grover's Guides http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426 for very useful information.

@thomasjk, sorry for the slow response - for some reason, I was not notified of your post. I have checked Grover's Guides but did not find anything specific to GPT/UEFI/Windows 8/8.1. Unfortunately, I have had situations in the past where procedures that worked fine for years continue to work without errors but the backups cannot be restored without significant effort. Not a 'surprise' I want to experience in an emergency recovery situation.

I've been trying to run a backup to a 3Tb GPT drive connected externally through USB 3.0 port & docking station from a Windows 8.1 UEFI machine for a week, and it just keeps failing. I get an IO error. 

Note: I did the same backup from an older machine with the same drive & all the same cables on my much older quad core (pre-generation 1 i3/i5/i7) desktop running Windows 7 with a PCI USB3 card installed in it...and it ran great. So the drive is fine. It ran super-fast in fact. This machine does have Acronis True Image 2015 in it, while the failing machine is running 2014. 

And I've run other backups from the windows 8.1 UEFI machine with Acronis 2014, but drives 1tb and under. 

So nobody has run across this yet? I'm willing to upgrade if it will help, but I don't want to if it's not going to work. 

Donna, are you using a powered USB docking station in this scenario - some systems simply do not provide sufficient power to the USB ports to run these devices if they are reliant on drawing power directly?

Try connecting the drive directly to a USB 2.0 port and doing a backup - it will be slower but will eliminate the docking station as being part of the problem.

What do the Acronis log files show when you encounter the IO error?