Salta al contenuto principale

Acronis Try-n-Decide

Thread needs solution

Try-n-Decide is not working. It indicates I need to disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (which I did not enable).  When I run Acronis Startup Recovery Mgr tool, it pops up a box with a Disable option showing (which it should not because it was never enabled).  Needless to say choosing this option does not work as Try-n-Decide still won't start.  I'm having this problem on my new Acer Aspire E15 laptop.  It came with Windows 8.1 but I upgraded it to Windows 10.  Aparently Windows 10 uses this EFI partitioning requirement which allows 120 some odd partitions or something (GPT partitioning) and I believe this is part of if not the whole problem.  Acronis identifies my partiton as NTFS Basic GPT, which doesn't make sense to me.  Anyway, I read that Acronis software doesn't work well with GPT partitions.  On my desktop I have Windows 10, but I set it up using a NTFS partition I created and performed a clean Windows 10 install on.  I've had no problems with Acronis on that unit.  I've been trying to straighten out some glitches with this Acer preload/upgrade to Windows 10 configuration for 2 days now.  I really don't want to have to start from scratch and reload.  Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.  Acronis is useless to me without Try-n-Decide.

0 Users found this helpful

gbt2017

Try and Decide is not working well with UEFI/GPT disks and has been logged and being worked on for support to bring this compatibility, but unfortunatley, for now, is probably a no go for this system "as is".  Unfortunately, depending on how Windows was originally installed on your system (most likely as UEFI/GPT) to begin with, that is how it would be upgraded as well.  If your system supports legacy boot (bios/CSM), you could reinstall Windows, but can't just convert it on the fly.  In order for that to even work, you need to make sure to run the Windows installer in legacy mode so that it creates a legacy MBR installation.  That may explain why your desktop is working (perhaps it is a legacy/bios/CSM Windows install) whereas your 

Boot to UEFI Mode or Legacy BIOS mode

 

Windows Setup: Installing using the MBR or GPT partition style

 

Try&Decide

Limitations in using Try&Decide

If you use Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10, please, be aware that in the Try mode the program may use free disk space quite intensively, even when your computer is idle. This is due to housekeeping activities such as indexing that run in the background.

Please note that while working in the Try mode you will experience slowing down of the system performance. Furthermore, the process of applying changes may take a long time, especially if you leave the Try mode turned on days on end.

Please be aware that Try&Decide cannot track changes in disk partitions, so you will be unable to use the Try mode for virtual operations with partitions such as resizing partitions or changing their layout. In addition, you must not use the Try&Decide and disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the same time, because this can irreparably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbootable.

When the Try mode is started, you won't be able to use the previously activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. Rebooting the computer in the Try mode will allow you to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager again.

Try&Decide and Nonstop Backup cannot work simultaneously. Starting the Try mode suspends Nonstop Backup. Nonstop Backup will resume after you stop the Try mode.

When the Try mode is started, you won't be able to use the "Hibernate" power saving mode.

Try&Decide cannot be used for protecting dynamic disks.

Try&Decide cannot work when a partition in your system is encrypted with BitLocker.

 

Thanks for the reply.  Actually Acronis Startup Recovery Mgr isn't working either.  I have not done so with the laptop, but I'm going to try a backup and if successful I'll try a clean install and then put Acronis on, check functionality of Try-n-Decide and perhaps have an additional update to this in case anyone else might be interested. 

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/112408

MVP Karl is experiencing the same issue. 

I have tested Try&Decide on two different computers and a virtual machine all running UEFI GPT Windows 10 x64.  On those systems TnD functioned correctly until activating the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.  After activating and deactivating ASRM TnD fails to discard changes on the required reboot and the storage for virtual changes does not stop growing.

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/tnd1.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/tnd2.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/tnd3.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/tnd4.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/tnd5.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/tnd8.png

Activating ASRM also causes unremovable drive letter assignments to the EFI system and MSR partitions in Windows explorer.  The assignment to the ESP can be removed with diskpart but returns after a reboot.

Gateway Desktop

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/b4_asrm.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/03/113469/after_asrm…

Toshiba Laptop

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/02/112408/driveletters_b4_asrm.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/02/112408/msr_drive_letter.png

Virtual Machine

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/02/112408/b4asrm.png

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/forum/2016/02/112408/afterasrm.png

These issues do not occur on the same hardware with UEFI GPT Windows 8.1 x64.

Allegato Dimensione
333740-126184.png 720.19 KB
333740-126187.png 696.44 KB
333740-126190.png 691.02 KB
333740-126193.zip 3.22 MB
333740-126196.png 736.75 KB
333740-126199.png 720.51 KB
333740-126202.png 708.01 KB
333740-126205.png 719.82 KB
333740-126208.png 720.81 KB

There is a message thread already talking about this subject, I will advised to continue posting on the previous thread to keep the subject from spreading multiple places https://forum.acronis.com/forum/97308