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| Thread ID: 137204 | 2014-06-05 22:35:00 | Acronis 2010 messed up 2 of my computers | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1376536 | 2014-06-05 22:35:00 | I was building a new computer and tried to back it up and afterward the mouse and keyboard wouldn't even work or anything else. So today I was imaging my main computer and I get a read error. Also the disk won't even work now on my main computer to restore a backup. I'm thinking that maybe in the future I should just use Windows 7 backup or should I get Acronis 2014 which I guess I can back up all 3 of my computers otherwise I need to go in a different direction. Help? | lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1376537 | 2014-06-05 22:58:00 | I was building a new computer and tried to back it up and afterward the mouse and keyboard wouldn't even work or anything else. So today I was imaging my main computer and I get a read error. Also the disk won't even work now on my main computer to restore a backup. I'm thinking that maybe in the future I should just use Windows 7 backup or should I get Acronis 2014 which I guess I can back up all 3 of my computers otherwise I need to go in a different direction. Help? I might have this totally wrong way round - apologies. You say building a computer. Is the image you created from a different machine? If so you cannot do that - each image is custom to the specific computer unless you have many of the same computers like workplaces. The hardware is different - unless you do some work around steps to strip the hardware info etc. If it wasn't from a different machine. I had some issues with Acronis before as well as others as well like Norton. Hey 2010 seems a bit old, it is now 2014. It might be OS version differences, also some may support x32 and not x64. I think I had Acronis 2010 and 2013 downloaded for free online when they had promotions. I have used older versions OK but I had to do a partition backup, I couldn't clone a disk. That was a much older Norton when I just got into Win2000. So those stuff can happen. I guess one should always check that it works before you wipe the original disk. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1376538 | 2014-06-05 23:15:00 | Disk imaging is not a 100% guaranteed thing no matter what software you use. It's better to use imaging software off a bootable medium rather than from within windows if you have the option as that's more reliable. Backing up an OS from within it while running is problematic. I have used the windows 7 image backup successfully but it's slow and awkward compared to others. I have had acronis work perfectly and also had it fail to work in varying degrees. I purchased Active@ after it was recommended on here a few times and had great success with it the first couple times but a total failure last time. When cloning a disk or storing an image it's best to confirm it works properly if you can at the time rather than restoring it later to find out it didn't. As already pointed out you can not usually use an image on different hardware than it was created on (although windows 8 is surprisingly good at this compared to earlier versions). When cloning never delete the original until you've proven the clone is fully working. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1376539 | 2014-06-05 23:36:00 | I agree with Nomad; hardware should be almost exact between source and target. Otherwise weirdness may occur. A bit off subject: it you're cloning several PC's from one image, it's considered good practice to reset this portions of Windows * Computer name * Security Identifier (SID) Otherwise you may get some weird networking issues later Some software will handle this automatically, even if you forgot this step; Free / older cloning software won't. Microsoft created "Sysprep" for those that don't.. See Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org) |
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