Windows 10 hard drive format

[Tony D]

I think there is something different about how Windows 10 formats the hard drive. I usually backup drives using my older Acronis True Image Home 2010 software. That software didn't recognize a Window 10 drive this morning. The drive did show up in 'Computer'. Another tech told me he noticed something different with Windows 10 drives.

I'm wondering if it has something to do with it being a Dynamic disk as opposed to a Basic disk. Just saying because Acronis TI said it couldn't backup a Dynamic disk when I attached the W10 drive this morning.

Maybe it has something to do with GUID partitioning which I'm not familiar with.

https://kb.acronis.com/content/2974

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

There are some compatibility issues with Windows 10 and Acronis TI 2010.
If this Windows 10 is an upgrade from Windows 7, it should still work.

I don't think that it installs on Windows 10 natively, if it's installed from previous version of Windows it should still work.
The disk formats should still be the same, Tony.
Someone else may know more about this.

 

[Tony D]

I was running Acronis TI Home 2010 on my W7 machine. Windows saw the hard drive connected via SATA/USB adapter. The hard drive was out of a W10 machine which was upgraded from W8.1.

I also tried starting the computer from the Acronis TI rescue disk. It still didn't see the W10 drive.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

If the Windows 10 disk is an upgrade from Win 8.1, it probably won't recognize the drive because, it's been my experience, that TI 2010 isn't compatible with Win 8.
I think that you may need a newer version of Acronis.

 

[Tony D]

Yeah, but I wonder what's different. You'd think NTFS is NTFS.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

If the drive came from a computer UEFI computer, maybe the hard drive is formatted GPT?

 

[Tony D]

That would explain it.

 

[Tony D]

I just checked and indeed it's GPT. Backing up now with True Image 2014.

Thanks for the tip Cindy.

 

[allheart55 (Cindy E)]

You're welcome, Tony.
I wasn't that sure myself....