Acronis True Image 2014 and Windows 8.1
I performed my first clone with Win 8.1 and everything went fine. After that the clone function would not pick up new entries. For instance, I made changes to my Quicken app and the clone reverted back to my first clone. Need help please.
I am using cloning as I said in my post. I performed my first clone with no issues. Each clone after the first will not reflect any changes made on my primary hard drive. I am using two internal hard drives.
Also, I used this same feature in Win 7 with no issues. I also have the latest build of Acronis.
Last night I looked under disk managenent in "This Computer" on my desktop and my primary drive had switched to D and my secondary drive had switched to C.
If you have cloned a disk to another one, you should not reboot the computer with both disks in the computer.
Hello MDG,
Pat, thank you very much for helping!
If you clone a system disk you receive two identical disks. It is strongly recommended to remove one of the disks right after cloning lest BIOS get confused.
Thank you.
So what I'm hearing is the Acronis True Image 2014 cloning piece doesn't behave the same way in Win 7 as in WIn 8.1. I NEVER had this issue with Win 7 or WIn XP. Please publish a fix for this.
MDG,
I am still afraid we talk past each other. The problem about 2 identical disks is not an Acronis issues it is a Windows issues.
Are you sure you are not talking about an image, and not a clone? But then, I don't really understand what you are doing...
Maybe this will help. See attached. I want to make an exact image of my primary hard drive. I not only want my documents, I want an entire mirror image that I can restore the OS and docs from.
I want an entire mirror image that I can restore the OS and docs from.
That is not a clone that you want then. You want to create an image of your disk that you can use to restore your computer on a new, empty, bare, disk, for example.
To do that, do a disk backup, not a clone. A disk backup will create a TIB *file* on the other disk. When you want to restore, you simply double click the TIB file to copy some particular files out of it, or you boot your computer on the recovery medium to restore the entire disk to a new disk disk by taking the all the information necessary from the TIB file.
http://kb.acronis.com/content/44743
Make sure you include all the partitions in your system disk backup! Make sure you test your recovery medium to recover a coupe of files!
To me it looks like everything worked as it should. You just overlooked that after cloning you have two bootable drives in your computer and your BIOS now started from the other drive - so enter your BIOS and select the right boot drive. I do like this all the time (cloning to a second drive and booting from one or the other). Acronis changes the drive's ID while cloning to prevent collision when both are connected at the same time (some other bare metal software does not, so you have to disconnect the clone after cloning).