Acronis not seeing HDDs’ and other thoughts

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Following Fred Langa’s suggestion for accessing hidden Admin account. Backup was made using Acronis ver 2013. The new password for the activated Admin account didn’t work and Acronis Emergency boot doesn’t see the Hdds'(external or internal).

Its not imperative to open the new admin account, but it would be nice to clean up this situation.

Downloaded Acronis ver 2015 – couldn’t find recovery in the free download, so deleted. Reinstalled Acronis WD ver 2013, presently recovering drive c(win7 boot partition) and MBR to a different partition on Desktop HDD.

My thoughts are to copy backedup Os partition to another Partition on desktop pc and create multiboot, boot into Win7 new partition. Then recover the same Win7 backup to partition C:.

Suggestions/information will be appreciated.

Thank you.

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How are you restoring to the disks if Acronis can’t see them?
On what machine can’t Acronis see the disks?

You could install Windows and Acronis, then attempt to restore from within Windows.

cheers, Paul

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Obviously, the emergency boot disk fails, new iteration of Acronis (ver 2015, old ver. created 2013), also fails with same error.

Acronis will operate within win7 os and recover data. So its baffling that the emergency boot can’f locate hard drives.

Thank you.

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This Acronis Forum post seems to cover your issue.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/41161

cheers, Paul

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HI Paul:

Ironically, nothing tried has come close to solving the Acronis Problem. Downloaded Ver 2015 created emergency boot disk and have the same issue “No Hard Disk Found’ before Acronis starts the acronis system.

I communicated with Wd Tech support as the original Acronis is Acronis True Image WD.The tech agent indicated the problem is with the Bios. Also communicated with Acronis Tech – no response, yet.

This is a new Gigabyte dual core board so I communicated with the Vendor and their reponse is to install Win7 as a repair in first Boot. Stated it would sync the mobo and OS. First time I have ever heard this idea. Though obviously, had to re-activate win7.

I may have indicated that a reinstall is possible- getting the hidden admin is not imperative, but its a bugging issue.
So this could ride until the win 10 update.

Thank you. Hope Santa Glides down
your chinney!

P.S. Was going to mention it’s baffling that the same boot disc works on another computer different mobo,hdd and such but it works perfectly.

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Any Backup program that’s worth its salt, should see everything that the motherboard sees. If not, it’s time to move on.

I tried Acronis backup once, some time back, just to see what all the hype was about and I found it seriously wanting.

Just one more reason that I’m still using a program that I first met in 1997…… Ghost. It was a DOS based program then and I still use the last DOS version of it today, to back up all my HD’s with OS’s ranging from XP to Windows 10. 32 bit or 64 bit, Ghost just doesn’t care.
Since Ghost 11.5 runs in DOS, it doesn’t care what the OS is. My webmaster tells me it even backs up his Linux Server.

Cheers mates and Happy Holidays Everyone!

The Doctor

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Used ghost and found it lacking about the time symantec changed l lot of their tools.

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….I communicated with Wd Tech support as the original Acronis is Acronis True Image WD….

Acronis from WD or any drive maker for that matter is a lite version designed to clone a drive to a new one (usually requiring either one of the drives, or one of the drives present on the system to be manufactured by the maker supplying the Acronis app under license).

It is NOT Acronis’ backup app nor is it intended to be. It is not surprising Acronis’ recovery boot app does not work with it.

It should see all the drives present however.

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Acronis True Image WD downloaded from Wd Site appeared to be a full version as it creates partition or disk images, creates a bootable emegency recovery disk and is supposed to recover from Acronis images.

As noted in other parts of this subject the same Emergency Boot disk works perfectly on another computer – recognizes and diplays all partitions on the other desktop pc.

Thank you for your response

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Your new motherboard has a disk controller that is not recognised by the Acronis boot disk. You need to inject the driver into the boot image.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/35238?page=1#comment-129245

cheers, Paul

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Your new motherboard has a disk controller that is not recognised by the Acronis boot disk. You need to inject the driver into the boot image.
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/35238?page=1#comment-129245l

That’s my impression as well, Paul.

Many motherboards have 2 different SATA controllers, 1 ‘native’ to the main motherboard chipset, the other a 3rd party controller that usually has a RAID option as well as ‘normal’ JBOD functions. There are similar issues with the different USB controllers, whether booting from USB, or accessing a USB attached drive from a boot/recovery CD.

As an example (the listed driver versions are specifically for enabling TRIM on SSDs), HD Sentinel lists a number of common chipsets.

It might be possible to work around the Acronis issue by rearranging the internal SATA/disk connections to use only the ‘native’ controller and reconfiguring the Boot order in the BIOS/UEFI- this could lead to Windows booting problems though…

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I would hope all modern drivers support TRIM, otherwise you’re wasting the SSD.

cheers, Paul

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I would hope all modern drivers support TRIM, otherwise you’re wasting the SSD.

That needs to be tested/checked for, Paul, it can’t be taken for granted.

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And I do just that.
http://windowssecrets.com/forums/showthread//172025-SSD-life-%28new-question%29?p=1026300&viewfull=1#post1026300

cheers, Paul

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