Acronis True Image 2012, absolutely worthless.

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I received several recommendations for Acronis True Image as being the best solution for cloning drives on a PC. Because the clone feature is disabled in the demo version, I had to buy TI 2012 to test it. My first attempt at a clone failed, the cloned drive would not boot, the BOOTMGR IS MISSING ERROR would consistently show up when attempting to boot. I tried reformatting the drive, and doing the clone when booted from both the acronis recovery CD or the drive itself(which I assume is not the right way to do it, but it was worth a try). I also tried using my windows 7 cd to repair startup issues on the cloned drive, this also did not fix the problem.

So, I figured I would try using the backup and restore feature. Creating the archive took a few hours, there is roughly 100GB of data on this drive. Booting from the acronis recovery cd and restoring the archive to a freshly formatted drive took almost 24 HOURS!!!!! Really? The whole point of this for me is that if I have a problem with my boot drive, I have one ready to go that I can install in my computer so that I can keep working. I could have re-installed my OS and programs in a fraction of that time. Then, to top it off, after 24 hours the restored archive doesn't boot either (NTLDR IS MISSING).

I just wasted $50 and a lot more than $50 of my time trying to do this, it's a good thing that this was just a test. Where do I get a refund?

Lun, 10/24/2011 - 15:40
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Hello JH4,

Thank you for posting and welcome to the forum. I will do my best to help you.

I am very sorry to hear about these issues but I can offer you a couple of solutions that can assist you.

For the error BOOTMGR IS MISSING I can recommend this solution.

The NTLDR IS MISSING could be caused by an older or corrupt MBR. You can either restore your backup with the MBR partition or perform Startup Repair using your Windows 7 installation disk.

If you still decide to refund the program please contact our Support team directly.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

Mar, 10/25/2011 - 10:01
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Do you have (had) only one drive installed? I had a similar issue after I had to restore my system drive from a Backup to a new drive (SSDs don't get me started...).
I tried Start-up repair, but that just told me it couldn't find a thing to repair. I was in a mindset similar to yours at that point...

It turned out, that I had the boot sequence wrong, though my system-drive had windows etc on it, it didn't use to be the one with the boot-manager on it. After I changed the boot sequence (obviously back, but I wasn't aware of that) the restored Drive worked perfectly.

I know, that your problem might be different, but then it might not or I might help somebody else with this post.
Best Luck 2 you.

PS.: I even had a similar problem with very long taking backups and restores, but in that case it turned out to have been a faulty hdd-contoler -> new mother-board....

Mar, 10/25/2011 - 12:58
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The NTLDR IS MISSING could be caused by an older or corrupt MBR. You can either restore your backup with the MBR partition or perform Startup Repair using your Windows 7 installation disk.

I tried the Win7 startup repair at every stage of the process, it either says there is nothing wrong or says it's fixing the problem and will reboot... when it reboots the same message comes back again. I have also gone into the bios and tried changing the boot order/priority with no success.

For the error BOOTMGR IS MISSING I can recommend this solution.

Well all of the first several steps listed in your link didn't fix it, so are you suggesting this?

Perform a clean installation of Windows. This type of installation will completely remove Windows from your PC and install it again from scratch. While this will almost certainly resolve any BOOTMGR errors, it's a time consuming process due to the fact that all of your data must be backed up and then later restored.

If I have to reinstall windows to fix my cloned drive or restored backup, doesn't that completely defeat the purpose of cloning my drive, or making a backup that I can restore from?

Mar, 10/25/2011 - 22:31