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Let me address few things your laptops were working after recovery, it's probably not Acronis True Image 2014 causing the malfunction. I may be wrong on how Acronis modifies the destination drive, but I thought it created a GPT partition maybe to make bootable? I haven't had this occur on other desktop or laptops yet, but it has on the 2 Dell's I've recently done this on. I believe using Acronis will load a Boot Partition onto the destination HD's to make it bootable, and it seems like that is becoming 'corrupt' for lack of a better term. The BIOS on that machine sees a HD, but it's not booting. Laptop #2 was being used by a user for a week with no issues, until it just won't boot either. A reload on the exact same hardware (keeping SSD in laptop) seemed to fix it. He shut down, and the next day it would not boot up. The end user plugged into our network, authenticated into PC, and than proceeded to set up Outlook, and use it in the office. It didn't have any obvious damage or anything like that. The first laptop was shipped to a different location using a FedEx laptop shipping box. I edited with a little more detail in the post above your last one. It worries me because I've now done this on a plethora of different desktops and laptops, and I don't want them to all of a sudden just not work. However, a week later, the same thing happened.

The first PC, I had reloaded, and just figured it was a one off issue. The BIOS is in Legacy Mode, but I've tried to change to UEFI boot, and mapped boot paths, but I can't seem to get it working again. BIOS still sees the hard drives, but you can't boot. The laptops are totally different models, but all of a sudden they just won't boot into Windows, or safe mode. I've now had 2 laptops (different models) that I was able to clone to a SSD, but after a week or 2, they are no longer bootable. I've had good luck on most machines, but had a few specific Dell issues. The Source HD is always still in machine, and the destination HD (SSD) is attached via USB to SATA adapter. I boot into the Acronis program through a bootable USB and clone them in that way.

#Acronis true image 2014 dvd upgrade#

It's as though the windows 10 upgrade has done something very subtle to prevent the machine running windows 8.1.I have used Acronis True Image 2014 to clone many different hard drives from traditional spinning disks to SSDs. I was like a dog with a bone by now, but this problem eventually wore me down and I've come to a grinding halt. It can be verified by Acronis as being not corrupt.

#Acronis true image 2014 dvd windows 8#

Neither could I find any way to make a recovery DVD - is it even possible I wonder?ДЇortunately restoring my windows 10 image works fine so I can always get my machine back to that state, but I am absolutely perplexed as to why the windows 8 image won't restore.

#Acronis true image 2014 dvd install#

Even formatting the C drive and trying to install windows 8.1 from a DVD failed with the 'cannot install windows to a drive with the GPT partition type'.Дoing a refresh or a reset from the recovery partition always failed too. This should be easy enough to sort out.Д«ig fail - after two days solid effort (I'm retired fortunately!) and trying numerous options many times over, I got nowhere.

#Acronis true image 2014 dvd software#

OK - this was a challenge - I'm an IT pro, with many years experience of troubleshooting computers and sorting out PC software issues. The machine would not boot to windows - it entered the dreaded 'Preparing Automatic Repair' which failed, giving the message 'Automatic Repair couldn't repair your PC' I updated my G751JY to windows 10, but before I did I took an image of the windows 8.1 C drive using Acronis True Image 2014.ДЄfter ensuring everything was working OK, I took an image of the Windows 10 system, and then restored the windows 8.1 just to check that I could go back to it if necessary.