Cloning issue ATIH2010
OK, I bought 2010 Backup and THOUGHT I had it registered. ( I have the box and key and everything here. ) I used it some, then got into Carbonite for some time and deleted Acronis 2010.
But Carbonite is making me a little nervous, in light of the talk of global economic collapse, terrorism, etc. I keep wondering; what if the city where Carbonite backs up my stuff, is destroyed, or something? What do I have HERE of my entire computing life?
So I thought, why not reinstall it, and just did.
But I went to do a Clone of my primary HD to my plug-in backup HD that I can put in the fire safe. I went to the Tools menu and picked clone, then manually stepped through choosing the source drive first. But it took several minutes of spinning and waiting. Then I picked the destination drive. Several more minutes of spinning. Then I finalized the stuff and started the backup, and it tells me it needs to reboot. Fine. So I let it reboot, it started working in DOS and I THOUGHT it was backing up, so I left it and went out for a couple of hours.
I came back and the PC is off, and I can't bring it back up. So I had to shut off the UPS manually, turn it on and reboot.
After that, I check, and all that appears to have been done is the creation of a C drive on the destination HD. No clone of C and D, just that.
So I went to Acronis' site and tried asking for support, but it tells me that I'm not registered. ( Thought I was! ) And there appears to be no way in the software to GET registered now, even though I bought this from Acronis and HAD it registered before, as far as I know.
This is discouraging. I don't know what to do now.
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That isn't the way I've always done this. I leave my system disk in place inside the PC and plug the disk that I want as a destination, into the plug port. Then I clone from the system disk inside the PC to the disk on the plug port. This has always worked before, and I don't understand why it won't now.
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Hi,
The recommendations are based off of the experience of many. You are welcome to use the software differently which may also work.
We have found that the above methods have proven themselves to be reliable and have provided consistent results. Note that these steps are also recommended in the user guide by the manufacturer. The goal is to help you avoid unexpected and/or undesireable results.
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I actually worked it out. I created a new Rescue Disk from the new install that I just did, then booted to it and ran it that way. It worked fine. I didn't have to remove internal hardware from my PC ( COME ON ).
So it seems like it doesn't work right for me, if I do it from Windows, I have to boot off the Rescue disk and run it.
Thanks. Thread closed.
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