For external drives use eSATA if possible -this will be as fast as your internal drives.īurn the image to a DVD or external HD, or USB flash drive -in case the entire drive fails. Saving image to a separate partition on your HD is much faster than an ext USB connection. For each image backup make a separate folder with the current date. Make an image backup of your C: drive and save it on E: under a folder called image.bkp.
A bare Win XP install should be no larger than 4-6 Gigs, for Vista it's probably 3x larger. There is no good reason to have your Windows OS and Apps be all mixed up with your data. You should partition your hard drive to at least C: (OS and Apps) D: (Data) E: Backups Maybe something to consider for the future?
The true image recovery environment has drivers for my expresscard eSATA controller, meaning that even if I boot the recovery environment from USB, I can still restore using decent speed. Due to this, I back up to a Seagate Freeagent "Extreme" with eSATA ports. Ignore the "optimize for fast removal" advise, since this setting is only relevant for an already booted windows system (optimize for fast removal turns off operating system write cache.
You now have two options, neither are good:ġ: Boot acronis true image "full version" from a CD (after disabling lagacy usb support in bios), and use the built in usb driver in Trueimage.ġ assumes you already have a bootable cd. This probably means your USB drive is handled through the BIOS on your mainboard (int 13h). Since this is during restore, I suspect you have booted from you Acronis rescue media (probably using a usb stick of sorts). The folks there are super helpful, and they can probably talk you through just about any restoral problem that you are having.Īcronis True Image is great when it works, but getting it to work on a particular system can be difficult at times. Upgrading doesn't guarantee that things will work better (if the new version doesn't have your drivers), but it may.Īlternatively, you can do two things - email Acronis support, and have them email you an ISO image with a set of drivers for your system.Īnd post the problems that you are having on that forum.
I upgraded to a newer version of the program, and the restore completed in about 90 minutes. Afterġ5 hours of running, I was stuck at around 75% restoring a 70G image. This happened to me a couple of months ago when I was upgrading one of the machines in my house. If it doesn't complete overnight, then it is likely that it won't. If there isn't a good driver for your USB device on the rescue disk, then it could take a very long time (if ever) to complete. The drivers for devices tend to lag those for Windows environments. The rescue disk boots the machine usine Linix. I assume that you are running ATI off of a True Image rescue disk. I understand that this problem involves two different products and this is making it more difficult for me to find a soloution.If it hasn't completed by then, you may have a driver problem.
I have been in contact with Acronis support on this issue and they are suggesting that I need an ISO file and drivers for Windows 10 or else I need to update my VMware Pro 12.5 to the latest version.Īny support with this issue would be appreciated. I note that when I extracted the drivers from this ISO file I only find listings for Vista and Win8 with no mention of Windows 10?
However, the restore only gets to around 20% when I receive an error " Cannot find device driver 'PCI\VEN_15AD&DEV_07E0&SUB07E015AD&REV_00' "Windows Recovery Environment".ĭuring this procedure I created the Acronis Universal Restore Bootable Media based on the windows.iso found in the VMware install directory of " C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\".
I have followed all the steps I am aware of. I am attempting to use Acronis Universal Restore a TIB backup file to a VM on Workstation Pro 12.