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I need someone a Acronis to address this.

You tout your customer service as highest priority.

There should be a known solution to this.

I am running Windows 64. The clone took 20 hours to complete. Swapped drives and this hassle.

Oh and your USB clone did not work either.

Either get me a solution or tell me how to get my money back.

Gary

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Without orderly details we can't know for sure, but it's likely that you may not have followed recommended procedures for cloning. That can result in the user allowing the PC to boot with both drives attached, causing Windows to invalidate boot on one of them - and it may not be the drive you intend.

My best advice: Do not Clone! Instead, do one extra step and create a full disk Backup to an external drive. If ever you need to return to that image state, you would do a full disk Restore/Recovery.

There is rarely a need to Clone. Really, Backup is safer and more flexible. Many users encounter problems Cloning which they would not have if they had instead used Backup.

1. Don't use Clone. Do a full disk mode Backup, selecting the entire disk, and a Restore. The end result will be the same as Clone, but with many advantages.

2. Check out the many user guides and tutorials in the left margin of this forum, particularly Getting Started and Grover's True Image Guides which are illustrated with step-by-step screenshots.

A full disk backup, selecting the disk checkbox rather than individual partitions, includes everything. It includes everything that a clone would include.

The difference is that while a clone immediately writes that information a single time to another drive, a backup is saved as a compressed .tib archive. As such, multiple .tib archives may be saved to a single backup drive, allowing for greater redundancy, security and flexibility.

Once a full disk image .tib archive is restored to a drive, the result is the same as if that drive had been the target of a clone done on the date and time that the backup archive was created.

Clone is riskier because we've seen situations where users mistakenly choose the wrong drive to clone from and to, thus wiping out their system drive.

Well if Clone does not work then I do want my money back.

I've used other clone software and it worked, just not on Windows 7. I figured I'd buy the latest and greatest.

I only bought it for Clone and the stupid add on where Acronis swears you can clone to a machine of different hardware. Which I highly doubt it works.

The clone appeared to work, I looked at the disk using the USB drive connector I bought, which did not work with Clone.

"you may not have followed recommended procedures for cloning" that is techno-babble. If Acronis made it any more difficult than chose source, chose destination then proceed they are insane.

Acronis just does not know how to tell Windows 7 to use a 'new' drive on a replacement.

Now how do I get my money back?

Gary

I didn't say that Clone doesn't work. It does work, but you should follow the recommended procedure.

Allowing Windows to boot with both original and cloned drive attached causes at least one to become non-bootable. That is a Windows issue, not caused by Acronis and not an Acronis issue.

If you're wanting to move the OS to different hardware, then you want a Backup and a Universal Restore, not a Clone. I think part of your problem is that you assume you need a Clone, when it appears that Backup is more appropriate.

I did not have both the old and new drives in the computer.

"Windows 7 to use a 'new' drive on a replacement." I replace the old with the new, exact same type of drive just different last 6 digits of MDL.

Exact same SATA port.

Forget the different hardware... If this does not work that will not work.

I WANTED to do a clone. It suxs that I had to spend $79.99 to find out that it does not work, even tough Acronis makes it seems EASY.

They left out the part of actually making it work.

As Tutle says, you cannot clone a disk and use it on a different motherboard. YOu have to use a disk image and Universal restore.