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Acronis True Image is disk imaging software, (see "Disk image") developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems. The software allows a user to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media.

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Acronis recovery breaks shortcuts in Windows when restored on identical machine?

I'm using Acronis to create recover an disk image to a replacement system. The image was created 2 weeks ago and is now being restored to a replacement machine(same batch, same vendor, same hardware) ...
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Acronis backup to offsite

Is there any simple way to create an offsite backup destination server for Acronis Cyber Protect backup? My initial thoughts were to simply setup a docker container running the normal agent (...
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Why must "Acronis Rescue Media" be used when cloning an operating systems boot drive?

I'm trying to migrate my current Windows 10 installation from a 256GB NVME disk to a 2TB one. I'm working through some of the documentation for this cloning utility provided by Western Digital and ...
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How can I reliably detect if a Hard Drive is corrupted?

My boss is concerned that I inadvertantly corrupted a hard-to-configure source hard disk while doing a disk clone. I do not believe the drive is corrupted, as it seems to function perfectly in every ...
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Are there any Difference Restoration between Acronis and Deepfreeze towards an expired trial account?

So I was wondering this since there is some talk in forum about the usage of Deepfreeze as an undo trick for an expired trial account (reference link: https://soehoe.id/how-to-use-tick-data-suite....
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Both source and destination disks won't boot after clone

I've cloned a NVMe SSD to another SSD connected via SATA with Acronis bootable iso. I accidentally pressed "To replace a disk on this machine Clone with bootable OS". Currently both my disks ...
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Acronis: Should recovery partitions be added during backup / restore?

I use Acronis True Image for many years and generally include the recovery partitions of primary disk (C:) to the backup file and select these partitions while restore. However, I am not sure if I am ...
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Can drive clone software copy the Volume Serial Number (Volume ID)?

On Windows, running vol id c: shows something like 4D12-7GG8. Is this Volume Serial Number copied when using disk cloning software such as CloneZilla or Acronis True Image?
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Acronis Vs Win10 Backup

I'm a long time user of Acronis for making saftey images and just upgraded to Win10. Win10 has an image backup feature and was wondering the advantages / disadvantages (reliability, ease of use, ...
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Toshiba portege R830 fan always running even on idle

I'm trying to install a software which I had from image backup which I was using for the past few years without a problem even on dissimilar hardware (loading appropriate driver...) Until I recovered ...
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How to convert .wim to .tib files?

I have a PXE server using Acronis Snap Deploy 5. Each time I get a new version of an image from my associate, it comes as a .wim (or .iso) file. So, to use it with ASD5, I first install it on a drive ...
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Can I clone/restore UEFI disk image on Legacy machine, and boot the cloned/restored disk later from UEFI machine? Acronis True Image

I'm currenly at home and I'd like to restore a UEFI disk image (full disk backup, using acronis) to another disk, and keep it UEFI, although I am booting Acronis TrueImage from Legacy machine. Is it ...
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Windows VSS writer error 0x800423F2

How to resolve the VSS error permanently on dell system with windows 10 pro 64 bit and 256GB SSD and 1TB HDD, I am using Acronics backup software with full machine backup, 2 or 3 days once VSS error ...
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Error loading operating system: on only one pc

I've an old industrial PC with Windows XP SP1. This PC has a 60GB IBM HDD. I've got a second HDD of that type. I did clone an backup image from this system using true image to this new HDD (all ...
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Universal Windows 10 image [closed]

how to create universal windows image with necessary programs and drivers?
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WD Edition of Acronis True Image makes unbootable drive [duplicate]

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=10445 indicates the WD edition of Acronis True Image will not be a bootable drive. How might a cloned drive (MBR partition table, not GPT, since ...
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Cloned destination disk appears as E: instead of C:, won't boot by itself

I cloned my hard drive with Acronis True Image. Now, with the new drive connected as 'drive 0' and the old as 'drive 1' ... new drive appears as e: Old drive is c: boots to e:; command line ...
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Acronis Bootable Media seems to have no file system, yet boots successfully in VM but not on bare metal

Background One of my duties requires having a variety of computers with a series of preconfigured software suites available for use on fairly short notice. These computers have dissimilar hardware, ...
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I can't remove the usb flash-drive safely after succesfully backing up data with acronis true image

Here's the thing, few weeks ago I had formated my usb flash-drive (slowly) using NTFS and I started backing up data very often with acronis true image 14 succesfully into this flash-drive. After the ...
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How do I install Western Digital Acronis True Image?

I can't install Acronis True Image from https://support.wdc.com/downloads.aspx?lang=en#WD_softwarepc It gives me this error. But I have THREE Western Digital drives installed! I want to clone my ...
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0xc0000225 error after imaging, but still works

I have three identical systems: HP Z440 with a 128 GB SSD drive running Windows 7 Pro x64. I think they're set up as AHCI. Computer 1 and computer 2 both had SSD drive failures. HP support came out ...
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Why am I getting a full and an incremental backup on the same day?

On Acronis Advanced Backup 11.7.44421, given these backup rules I get two backups, one incremental at 3am and a full at 4am, on the first Sunday of the month: This last sunday, the computer slept ...
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Is it possible to move OEM Office to another hard drive by copying the OS using Acronis or similar?

I have run out of space on my current hard drive and purchased a new larger drive. My old OS has an OEM install of Office 2013. If I use Acronis or a similar disk copying tool to move the OS to the ...
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How do I recover Windows EFS keys

Long before my hard drive crashed I backed it up using Acronis TrueImage 2010, a full partition backup of Windows 7 Professional 64bits. Oddly enough, the C OS partition is the placed as the second ...
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Can Acronis True Image or Backup run multiple plans?

If I have 4 volumes (any configuration based on RAID or without). I want to copy: volume 1 to volume 3 (saved as compressed TIB) volume 2 to volume 4 (saved as compressed TIB) Is it possible to ...
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How to compress ext4 partition with Acronis while backup?

With Acronis, when I set to compress ext4 partition before backup, the result is a raw backup and not compressed. The same process with NTFS or FAT32 partition, results are compressed. Please tell ...
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Access To Acronis True Image 2016 Files

I have just made a copy of my old computer’s hard drive with Acronis True Image and put the file onto my new HP Envy which I can mount the partitions within the image file using Acronis True Image on ...
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How can I convert this to an actual date?

I recently did a backup with Acronis and saved the log. It turns out to be an xml containing some lines like this <event code="504" id="5" level="2" message="Pending operation 158 started:'...
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Backup a 750 GB HDD to an 1 TB external HD using Acronis and leave free space

Recently I've been thinking about buying an external HD to backup my laptop's drive. I'm thinking about using Acronis True Image to do that. But I have one question: The external drive I'm planing to ...
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How do I turn off popup offers and ads in Acronis True Image 2016?

I'm running a bought and paid for copy of Acronis True Image 2016 (it was an upgrade). How do I turn off their popup/toast ads which seem to be a new thing (my older version never did this)? Here's ...
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When I run Acronis on Hiren I cannot see the external hard drive plugged to USB port

I have just bought a new laptop Lenovo G50-80 with Windows 8. I want to make an image of C: with the Acronis that comes with Hiren (True Image 2012). It always worked with all my other computers ...
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Cloning system nightmare with Windows 8.1

I am running Windows 8.1 that was initially a Windows 8 OEM from an ASUS Q501L laptop. I first used Macrium Reflect and then Acronis True Image to fully clone my current hard drive onto an SSD. Both ...
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Windows XP Issue - Explorer Running Slow & Video Lagging when popups appear or adjusting volume

Hardware: Samsung SF310 Laptop Intel Core i5 4Gb RAM Samsung Evo 840 SSD (250Gb) Software: I have reloaded an image using Acronis: Windows XP Professional SP3 All relevant drivers for my ...
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I restored onto a new SSD using Acronis True Image Home, but it won't boot; how do I make the system boot from the new SSD?

My SSD died yesterday. I have made regular backups using Acronis True Image Home. I've restored the image onto a new SSD which I have purchased and installed. I have verified it is there. It also ...
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Unable to clone mSATA disk in my W530

I recently bought a used W530 from eBay, which is in good shape. It has a 240GB mSATA and two other disks. It runs on Win 7 pro 64bit. I used its recovery media disk to restore the computer to its ...
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Is it possible to restore an image from Acronis into a single partition, instead of the whole disk?

I haven't worked with Acronis yet (or any other OS cloning software), but as far as I know, it has to be restored on a blank HDD instead of a single partition (out of 2 or more). So, is that possible ...
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How to setup a NTFS partition on an Acronis Bootable Rescue Media USB drive

Anybody know if it's possible to partition the drive that currently has a bootable USB on it without erasing or formatting the entire USB drive?
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How to restore Acronis True Image 2014 backup to another HDD

In earlier versions of Acronis True Image, there was a function in "Restore" section: Select .TIB file to restore and select destination device/partition. But I can't figure out how to restore (for ex....
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How to determine a .tib extension from acronis image file type

I have windows 7 64 bit professional OS in my laptop.Recently I have created a backup of my hard drive with acronis(http://www.acronis.com/en-us/) image creator. Now I would like to find the resultant ...
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Laptop security plan: Acronis True Image + TrueCrypt + Prey

Scenario: I'm working since 2 years as a software developer and sys admin. I never had anything useful on my pc. Now it's full of personal and sensitive data (passwords/source codes, etc). Now that ...
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Can't clone SSD with a Windows partition and a Linux partition

I recently installed with some effort Zorin OS (based on Ubuntu LTS 14.04) on another partition of my Intel SSD 335 (240 gb in total) and divided that other partition many smaller partitions of the ...
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Will Acronis True Image WD Edition work on the Western Digital-owned HGST drives?

We have a copy of Acronis True Image WD Edition and we'd like to know whether or not it will work on HGST (owned by Western Digital) drives?
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Is it possible to convert .vdi or .vhd into OS cloning images?

I think the question isn't so clear. I'm asking if it's possible to convert Virtual Hard Disk files (.vdi, .vhd, etc., including snapshots) into Acronis Images, so I could emulate the system, set the ...
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HD cloning without deleted files

After cloning a HD, I analyzed target HD and found deleted files from source HD (files which i deleted long before the cloning!). So, do you know what settings in Acronis True Image prevent copying ...
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Backup tools free trial limitations [closed]

I would like to use a backup tool like Acronis or Crashplan in case I encounter a serious problem with my computer and I want to restore it like it is right now. They both have a free trial of 30 days ...
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Is there an expected performance regression with True Image?

Is there an expected notable performance regression with Acronis True Image in daily business? Daily business means, I run my computer and do not perform a backup right now. At my machine TI 2014 ...
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Acronis Migrate Easy Work With Windows 7

I recently purchase a bigger seagate sshd drive to replace the currently smaller one in my laptop. I have been looking around for free alternatives that will clone everything including the OS (...
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Merge C and D HDDs with Windows 7

Due to hardware issues, I would like to move my installation of Windows 7 as well as the rest of the installed programs and data from my C drive (a small SSD) to my current D drive, which would then ...
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How do I migrate my Windows desktop to a VirtualBox VM?

I have VirtualBox 4.3.6 and True Image 2014 Premium with Universal Restore. I've read a lot about different methods but I'm not sure where to start, or what will suit my needs. Directly from ...
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True Image scheduled backups failing because the removable device drive letter changes

I have Acronis True Image setup to backup to an external hard drive. I keep getting the error message "Please insert the last media of the archive and click Retry to continue". I think this is ...
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