Is Acronis as bad as it seems to be?
Hi to all,
I got a limited copy of Acronis via Intel about two weeks ago when I purchased an Intel SSD. The limited copy didn't seem to be quite smart enough to do what I wanted so I purchased the 2012 Home Edition, fortunately at the upgrade price. When I tried to clone my disk, Acronis blue-screened my computer. I opened a support issue but have had no response of any sort for more than a week. Fortunately I paid via Paypal so I should have some recourse for getting my money back.
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I started the cloning tool from Windows and got to the panel saying "select source drive". When I click on the source drive I get the blue screen. I took a photo of the blue screen and emailed it to the support address.
Anyway it is academic, I got the job done in 10 minutes yesterday with Parition Manager. Acronis has been uninstalled and deleted from my system.
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Michael,
I'd take a second look at how 'deleted' Acronis is. You've gotten much more than you bargained for. If you have a 'pre' Acronis image I would strongly suggest you restore it.
Joe
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Hi Joe,
Since I never did anything with Acronis beyond blue-screening the computer a few times it didn't have too much of a chance to sink its tentacles into my system. After uninstalling it and rebooting, a Harmony remote control programming app started complaining that its VC++ libraries were bad. Since I haven't used it in over a year I just removed it also. No further signs that I can detect of any residual Acronis contamination.
In my experience, when you reach the stage of active hostility from your user base, it is a sign of a software company that won't be around much longer.
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I've just looked and I do not have snapman listed in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} -> UpperFilters so it should be safe to delete snapman.sys
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I've deleted snapman.sys and rebooted so it looks like I've lived to tell the tale....
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Hi again Joe,
Thanks for the heads-up, I've done some more research in this forum and will be doing a thorough registry and system scrub over the next few days.
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I ended up restoring from a pre-Acronis image after ending up with an unbootable system trying to get the Acronis drivers uninstalled. Fortunately I had four separate backups on two different media before I started, so aside from the waste of time I am now ok.
My recommendation to all: do not install this thing in the first place.
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