FPCH Staff Tony D Posted January 25, 2016 FPCH Staff Posted January 25, 2016 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 Quote
FPCH Admin allheart55 Cindy E Posted January 25, 2016 FPCH Admin Posted January 25, 2016 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. Quote ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~ ~~Robert McCloskey~~
FPCH Staff Tony D Posted January 25, 2016 Author FPCH Staff Posted January 25, 2016 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. Quote
FPCH Admin allheart55 Cindy E Posted January 25, 2016 FPCH Admin Posted January 25, 2016 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. Quote ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~ ~~Robert McCloskey~~
FPCH Staff Tony D Posted January 25, 2016 Author FPCH Staff Posted January 25, 2016 Yeah, but I wonder what's different. You'd think NTFS is NTFS. Quote
FPCH Admin allheart55 Cindy E Posted January 25, 2016 FPCH Admin Posted January 25, 2016 If the drive came from a computer UEFI computer, maybe the hard drive is formatted GPT? Quote ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~ ~~Robert McCloskey~~
FPCH Staff Tony D Posted January 25, 2016 Author FPCH Staff Posted January 25, 2016 That would explain it. Quote
FPCH Staff Tony D Posted January 25, 2016 Author FPCH Staff Posted January 25, 2016 I just checked and indeed it's GPT. Backing up now with True Image 2014. Thanks for the tip Cindy. 1 Quote
FPCH Admin allheart55 Cindy E Posted January 25, 2016 FPCH Admin Posted January 25, 2016 You're welcome, Tony. I wasn't that sure myself.... Quote ~I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.~ ~~Robert McCloskey~~
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