I found Paragon Hard Disk Manager the best choice as it combines backup/recovery/clone with disk management solution in a single license. I strongly recommend that you take a closer look at the best Acronis alternatives Paragon Hard Disk Manager, Novastor NovaBackup, AOMEI Backupper Pro, Easeus Todo Backup or others. All Acronis negative feedbacks, ratings and trends can be easily checked by you. First of all this is not a “paid review” I just want to share my real negative experience with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office so you will not make the same mistake. If you are looking for a quick answer then “NO” and here is why.
If you cannot see the Samsung EVO drive, then that will be confirmation that it uses RAID and I can give you further guidance for the MVP Tool version of the media to overcome this.Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office Review (Formerly Acronis True Image): Does It Worth A Penny? The basic WinPE Rescue Media also does not have RAID support but will show you whether it can boot on your computer correctly or not. The ADK download is large so may take a little while to download, but when it has, and you launch the installer, you only need to select the top 3 options to be installed (leave the other options unchecked). In the main ATIH 2017 GUI, go to the Tools page, then click on Rescue Media Builder then on the second option for the WINPE-Based Media with Acronis Plug-In this will then guide you in regard to the Windows ADK if you do not already have this installed. I understand that all the talk about Windows PE media, Windows ADK etc sounds like a foreign language, but the reality is that it is a whole lot easier than you may first think.
If this is the case, then the standard Rescue Media will not work for you as it does not have any driver support for RAID. I would suspect that your Samsung SSD 960 EVO drive may be configured in RAID mode for the SATA controller - you should be able to check this by looking at your BIOS settings for the drive. Phil, thanks for the extra information / clarification about BitDefender. Motherboard Chipset Intel Sunrise Point Z170, Intel Skylake-Sĭisk Drive Samsung SSD 960 EVO 500GB (500 GB, PCI-E 3.0 x4)ĭisk Drive TOSHIB DT01ACA100 SCSI Disk Device (931 GB)ĭisk Drive TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 (1 TB, 7200 RPM, SATA-III) Motherboard Name Asus Z170M-Plus (2 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16, 1 M.2, 4 DDR4 DIMM, Audio, Video, Gigabit LAN)
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 ProĬPU Type QuadCore Intel Core i5-6600K, 3800 MHz (38 x 100)
Operating System Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 3.332 (Win10 RS2)
All that stuff about ADK's, Linux kernel OS, ATIH 2017, Windows PE version, MVP version, SSD's configured in RAID may as well be in Chinese as it doesn't mean much to me. Sorry, the comment re bitdefender was reference to not being able to submit a ticket via the Acronis website and not the problems with the bootable media as I know sometimes security software can block some things.Īll I can tell you is I followed the Acronis instructions to produce the rescue media to the letter. I am a little confused by your final comment about disabling BitDefender Total Security as this should only ever be active when Windows is booted, so should be of no interest when booting from a CD or USB stick with the Rescue Media?
There is a third option, which is to build the MVP version of the WinPE Rescue Media (again needs the ADK to be installed) but allows for more flexibility in terms of allowing both 32-bit and 64-bit media to be created (separately) and also allows additional device drivers to be injected into the rescue media (for support of SSD's configured in RAID mode for example).
You can also create the Windows PE version of the Rescue Media which requires you first install the Windows 10 ADK first before it can be created, but which provides a much higher level of compatibility with modern systems. Next, which type of Acronis Rescue Media have you created? The standard media is based on a Linux kernel OS and may give some issues for new computer systems with UEFI & Secure Boot enabled. This is the ATIH 2017 forum, so can you confirm that this is the version you are using, and if so, which build do you have? Build 8053 for the Standard version and build 6206 for the Premium / New Generation version are the latest builds for ATIH 2017. Some more information about your computer system would help us to better understand the environment where you are attempting to use the Acronis bootable Rescue Media?