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From reading, it seems I cannot do a “clone” like I normally do using TI until this alignment problem is fixed later this year. Can someone please explain with detailed steps, how when using Acronis TI with Acronis Director Home 11 together exactly how to move the data to the SSD, while fixing the alignment to and without triggering the “not geniuine” black screens as I have on my past 3 attempts?

I had the same thing happen to me only no ssd involved. All the sudden after an ATI disk image restore Windows comes up as not genuine. The only difference was My Raid array became corrupted so I rebuilt the whole thing over on to it self. I’ve been using ATI since 07 and upgraded every year. Maybe we both did something wrong or there is a issue with Win7 x It took a complete format and reload to correct the issue and I want to know exactly what went wrong so this doesn’t happen again.

I was lucky all I lost was a handful of document and some screen shots I had on my desktop but considering what I have shelled out for ATI products I’m a bit peeved.

Now I put my desktop folder along with all other data on separate Data drives which are backup to my home server. That, however was for redundancy and my main line of defense ATI failed. I find it curious though, that no one responded to your last query yet and it makes me wonder if the problem is more wide spread than google can divulge ATM. The whole thing is beginning to stink.

I hope we get some answers soon and when thay get it figured out it should be a free update to IMHO. Really there is no excuse for these inequities. Bare minimum the workarounds should be readily available. Too bad about your need to start from scratch.

In your situation, there is a high degree of probability of successful recovery when the restore is a disk option restore. I’m not buying it until I can make an image of a fresh Windows 7 install on my SSD and be able to restore it with proper alignment being restored as well without having to use a separate utility to restore proper alignment.

Considering no one company in the backup business can make that claim right now you and I are SOL. It appears there is a work around involved. Read this on Anandtech, Hardforums and Extremesystems. Question now is why Acronis’ employees don’t know that True Image can do this Thank you for your comments, and many thanks to GroverH for his valuable assistance. We entirely understand your concern regarding SSD alignment question.

Officially SSD alignment is not supported in current versions of Acronis products. The proper support for SSD drives which takes into account the specifics of the partitions offset is planned for the next version of Acronis True Image Home product, which is reported to be Acronis True Image Home We have just released Beta version of it, so it would be nice if you could join us and test it to see whether it suits your needs. In case you are already registered in our beta program you will need to log in to your existing account here.

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I JUST got off a tech support chat. I’ve been waiting for the new version for the exact same reason. The answer: NO!! Acronis KB kb. The “next” version is here, but partition alignment is NOT implemented, according to the tech support person I just chatted to. There is NO mention of alignment in the user manual either. I can’t help considering that perhaps it’s time to switch to Paragon. I made the switch from [Drive Image] years ago, when Acronis proved the better product, and perhaps the time has come once again to move on.

Thanks for the update Howard. I have used and recommended Acronis since its original versions all registered. Looks like I will be joining you in becoming a Paragon customer. If your existing system does not have proper alignment, you can use Win 7 to create the partitions on a blank disk and the new partition alignment will be retained when the backup restored to the new disk.

GroverH You are absolutely right. Your posts across this forum have been consistently on the mark and very helpful. However it is frustrating to find that a brand-new version of Acronis does not directly and fully, address this particular issue, workarounds not withstanding.

SSD’s are here to stay and one of the most significant hardware improvements to modern-day PCs. If Microsoft can build allowances and enhancements to both Vista and Windows 7 to take advantage of SSD’s it seems absurd for a smaller, supposedly more agile, software company to ignore this issue.

It’s a competitive market, and for this reason SSD alignment Paragon wins by a nose for this particular, erstwhile loyal customer.

I can’t clone the whole disk of course because the source is too large, and just want the system boot partition to the SSD. The “existing system” is the source partition. If the source partition is aligned correctly for SSD, then when you create a backup image of it and restore it, it will still be aligned. Note that this only works with TI and later if I remember correctly. Using TI or later, you should be able to take an image of a partition that is not aligned an XP partition, for example and restore it to a previously created aligned partition on the SSD and retain the alignment.

I have not tested with DD 11 on copying a partition, but it may work if you have the correct OS selected so it uses the correct alignment. Just to confirm what’s been said, really. Partition was correctly aligned with Paragon Alignment Tool before the backup was made.

Updated both SSD’s firmware. Partition was correctly aligned, verified with Paragon Alignment Tool. Important follow-up to my earlier post: I have done some tests, and alignment situation is not as dire as I thought. Acronis True Image Home does restore images with correct alignment if they were aligned that way already.

This post covers 2 things: Testing of restoring images with correct alignment, and discovering bugs in function of the program unrelated to alignment. All backup tests were imaged from drives attached externally via USB external enclosure, and made directly from ATI Home running within the XP operating system, with backups saved. Restored partitions were created the same way, restoring from saved.

For anyone needing refresher on the alignment issue, Windows 7 installs at and creates partitions that start at sector XP and earlier defaulted to a partition start at sector SSD drives need to be aligned at , or their performance is cut in half. Test 1. Create backup image of a Windows 7 drive, which had correct alignment, and restore to another hard drive. Partition size not adjusted in restore. Test 2. Created almost empty test partitions to backup and restore.

As long as the first partition was ‘correctly’ aligned at to start with, ATI Home would restore partitions with that alignment. Backup image of whole drive.

NOTE: I discovered bizarre bugs along the way. These are not related to partition alignment per se, but the Acronis Home restore behavior. Attempts to resize partitions being restored bigger than they were originally, to fill unallocated space, did not work correctly. There are bugs in the program. ATI Home would allow me to modify ” Change default ” and set my chosen partition size to restore, however after restore was complete, the partition was exactly its original size.

True Image did not resize it bigger. I continued testing different ways, and found the “bug” in the program and the work-around : If I chose to increase partition size via slider, simply selecting to resize the restored partition larger, it would not work , and the summary page after clicking “Next” button before proceeding would indicate the partition’s original size.

However , if I didn’t proceed, but rather repeated the resize selection options a second time by clicking on ” Settings of Partition [drive letter]” on the list of Required steps , again chose to ” C hange default ” for partition size where my previously chosen resized size had not changed, again clicked on ” Accept ” button, and once again clicked ” Next “, this time the summary for Recovering partition reflected the chosen size change as, for example: “Size: 1.

Thus when making “two” changes, not just resizing but ‘moving’ partition along with a resize, the repeat of the resize procedure would not be necessary. This is clearly a bug, not sure how replicated this issue is with other OS’s or in bootable media tests. Note: There did not seem to be a problem with choosing to resize restored partitions to be smaller than their original size obviously can’t make them smaller than the amount of actual space used by files contained inside.

ATI had no issues automatically resizing larger partition images to smaller, to fit unallocated space that was less than the original partition size. Also, manually resizing partitions smaller did not result in the ‘bug’ that I found when trying to resize partitions larger.

Second bug found: ATI Home would not properly distinguish unallocated space if it was broken up into more than one area. ATI home would select the larger, 15GB unallocated space at the end, not the 4GB I chose; I would choose the 4GB space in the ” Specify recover settings of Partition [] ” choosing the option ” N ew location ” for the ” Partition location required ” section, but the partition size section would always show that 14GB was going to be remaining directly after the restored partition.

If the restore was attempted, sure enough, the restored partition was created in the wrong unallocated space. The ONLY way to get the 1GB partition restored to the 4GB unallocated space was to cancel the restore, use the operating system’s disk management to create a ‘dummy’ partition to fill the larger 15GB unallocated space, then go back to ATI and then it would restore to that unallocated 4GB space.

It’s as if it will only work with ONE contiguous area of unallocated space. If you have more unallocated space, you cannot be sure you will be restoring to the space you expect.

This type of bug worries me, since I cannot be confident that the program will restore to where I want. I have not tested it, but what if partitions are named the same, will it not be able to tell them apart? Well, that’s all for now. That was my main goal, but it was distressing to uncover rather serious bugs just in my limited testing. And I have not searched the forums to see if these are already documented, but I wanted to share my experience.

Additional tests to answer questions re: how to restore an image of partition that was not aligned into an aligned state, and Disk Director 11 alignment question. I can verify that restoring image of a ‘non-aligned’ partition to a previously or properly aligned empty partition using ATI Home does work! Paragon tool aligns at sector , which is fine, but I have been using older Acronis Disk Director suite 10 after Paragon tool, to resize the partition, ‘moving’ it to the very “front” which clears the extra 1MB unallocated space Paragon tool leaves.

I found on internet Acronis set the right offset when a SSD installed but thats not true. I bought Version on and now i get no upgrade. But i believe have only more cloud computing integrated and the offset will with ATI also 17 instead of Therefore i dont go to buy it now. The forums have lots of posts where users have been successful in doing this type of activity. So far we have none of this information to start to understand what problem you are reporting here?

I think he’s referencing the change with the MSR being moved to the 1st parition instead of the 3rd as it is in a default Windows install. The offset is set to 17KB, but has no relevance to performance. The MSR is a blank parition that has no data whatsoever. It is designed to be used to take space from if needed especially when managing dynamic disks. However, yes, Acronis does move the MSR partition from the 3rd position and puts it in the 1st positions and also increases from the default 16Mb to Mb the max size.

I’m not exactly sure why this is – I believe it was addressed by one of the support engineers in another thread, but I can’t find it. When this behavior was first introduced in Acronis , it did cause issues because the paritions were not properly mapped and the recovery parition could not be booted as a result.

This is no longer an issue and has not been for quite some time. In all honestly, the MSR parition has no impact on the OS – you can delete it and things will continue to work just fine. As far as I know, the moving of the MSR partition does not occur during a clone process either – that’s a one for 1 clone job – an exact clone Only when doing a backup and restore and selecting a full disk recovery with the default settings, does this occur.

If one really had an issue with this why though, I’m not sure – show me a real world case that applies to Acronis as it stands today with the recovery, bootaility, and ability to use the Windows recovery partition and I’ll reconsider , they could create the parition scheme first as described by Mustang in the sticky using the WinPE and then restore the paritions one by one. MVP LogViewer MVP Google Drive Cleanup Utility Cloning Correctly Clone vs Backup Community Tools Contact Support Our mission is to create Customer success.

Our management team welcomes your comments and suggestions on how we can improve the overall support we provide to you. Please send your comments, suggestions, or concerns to Managers or submit your feedback here. That is disappointing. I believe you must be aware that these 4K sector hard drives will be the future and soon other hard drive manufacturers will start to release these types of hard drives.

I hope you will add support for these hard drives as soon as possible, perhaps in a future version. At the moment, there is no support at all I am afraid. I am sure however, that we will definitely support this feature in order to accommodate our customers. If in the future I need to clone the data on these new drives partitions already realigned to another 4K sector hard drive, can I still use the current True Image products or must I wait for a new version which natively supports these 4K sector drives?

Unfortunately, we can’t tell you if native 4k sector support will be implemented in the current version of Acronis software. What I want to know is, if I need to clone the data on my current Western Digital drives to a new 4K Sector drive in the future, can I use the current Acronis True Image products or must I wait for a new version? If 4K sector support won’t be implemented in the current version of Acronis software, you’ll need to wait for a new version of the software that will work with such drives correctly.

But the fact is, apparently I was able to clone the data from an older hard disk a Seagate 1. The only thing is I have to use the WD Align utility made by Acronis apparently to realign the partitions or else bad performance will result.

So, are you sure your statement is correct? And I can state once again that currently 4k sector support is not implemented yet. That would require a complete and overdue overhaul of how the BIOS interacts with disks.

The advanced format drives gets around this by simulating the old byte interface. That is why we have such grave compatability and performance issues.

That is why we need special programs like the ones from Acronis for aligning the drives. Solid state drives SSD have similar issues. We will have to live with this until some new standardized way of interfacing with drives is implemented.

The problems will also continue to grow as more manufacturers move to other sector sizes. So we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg with this and it is a great opportunity for the company that can bring out an easy to use product. Of course your software supports these drives the same way as they support any standard byte drive.

However they do not support 4Kbyte drives natively if that is what you mean? Neither does anyone else. Judging from my own experiences with these Western Digital drives, it seems to me that the current Acronis True Image products can be used with them can write to them at least , but since the current Acronis programs all create misaligned partitions on these drives, the WD Align utility is necessary afterwards to ensure optimal performance.

Now I just learn that Western Digital has released 2. I am interested in these and may get one of these in the future. If I want to clone the data on a hard disk of less than or equal to 2TB to one of these hard drives, can it be done with True Image Home ? If you do not know the answer at this time, that’s fine, but in such a case I urge you to test the softwares with these hard drives and tell us what you find.

It seems to be based on Acronis True Image Home , is that so? Error: Format impossible. LOG show attachment. What can I do? Dear Juergen! Welcome to our Forum, we’re glad to greet you here!

I understand your concern, and will do my best to help you. Unfortunately due to the lack of diagnostic information it’s hard to say for sure what exactly went wrong. So this situation requires investigation. Please gather:. After that please kindly contact support directly with the information attached.

 
 

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Can we please have a definitive statement from Acronis on whether alignment when cloning works when moving to SSD or Advanced Format drives? Run ATI and choose to either Mount an image file or Disk Recovery> Recover whole disks or partitions from image file, (actually quicker to use.

 

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Swatch was seeking some kind of rule they could use to exempt themselves without raising the issue for everyone. They found some research support for the idea that whiskers don’t grow beyond microns. Based on that, they postulated that a micron pitch was unsafe, and should be exempted, but microns was fine and didn’t need exemption. Now you go look at the picture in Fig. I don’t think so. Which has a link to the WD version of Acronis that no one at Acronis seems to know anything about This is quickly becoming an issue of ignorance with the various HD SW tool companies Just from the fact that these systems are so sensitive, disaster recovery is paramount.

I know of systems still running NT 3. A lot of these systems use cold standby sleds that are system clones. Hey and don’t flame me for this, I didn’t develop their disaster recovery plan. Does Acronis support drives that are interfaced with true 4K sectors not used in windows applications? Or are you really supporting what is refered to as “Advanced Format e”? Where the drive emulates a kb sector size? This emulation is what causes all the alignment problems but from what I understand we have to live with it until BIOS UEFI soon and OS support various sector sizes I mean it is bound to change with new advances storage media right?

This did not work in the programs Thank you for your response. This shows whether the clone worked and aligned the drives, and whether the drive even supports 4K sectors. Thank you. I will need to try both the WD TI and align software. I am not clear on the align software. After the partitions are aligned you will not need to run it again unless you change the partitions on the disk.

If you do not do this, the performance of the drive will be severely affected. And yes, you are right that Windows 7 does not have a problem with them, as long as you use Windows 7 itself to create the partitions on the hard drive.

Or, if you use the True Image WD Edition to clone the data to one of these drives, then the partitions will be automatically aligned and you will not need to run the WD Align utility afterwards. I have done this myself and personally seen that the partitions are aligned on the WD drive. By the way, the new WD Caviar Green 2. Dear Sir: i’m having the same problem, my laptop is a Thinkpad W and i had a GB seagate drive installed and now i have bought a GB seagate drive.

Authored on. Order Asc Desc. Date within – Any – 1 day 3 days 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 6 months 1 year. Support for 4K Sector Hard Drives. Thread needs solution. James Bond Posts: 4. Comments: Forum Star. Posts: Hello James Bond , Thank you for your interesting question. I will be happy to assist you. Please let me know if you have additional questions. Hello James Bond , Thank you for getting back to us. Let me know if you have additional questions please.

Thank you for linking these excellent guides. I will use as a reference when I do my restore operation. I got around to doing this project last night and added the 1MB infront of the initial parition.

I didnt think that was possible. Bellow is the system info captured by windows which for the second is divisable by and gives me a whole number which implies the unit is aligned.

This system config wasnt as easy as I hoped and took some tweaking to get my OS to boot after the change over, some of my boostrap info had been placed on a secondary drive that had been replaced in addition to the fact that my motherboard only supports the first 4 SATA ports plus the 2 that can be used only in AHCI mode which is what I wanted to run my SSD at top speed. I had moved it to the SSD so it could boot standalone but the system defaulted to the other drive at first boot.

I am suer all my critical disks and optical drive were in Its all working now, and I believe it must be aligned with the 1MB starting position, its just weird that the utility reports it as otherwise. Im not concerned about loosing a tiny fraction of the total drive given its enormous size and purpose.

Again I appreciate everyones help and the awesome documentation you’ve put on this site. I will pass that info on so others can benefit as well. When rechecking the first starting offset isnt divisable by , its the second. I’ve included both of the large disk for your reference. For anyone running a Samsung drive its a free download for their Adv format drives.

Would be great if Acronis could bundle an alignment tool with the True Image Product line until support is fully integrated. Seems like this would be fairly simply as Acronis seems to be providing it for WesternDigital, Hitachi and Samsung at this time.

Would also be nice to be able to work on any drive on the system from one central location. I noticed it had me shutdown some of the ACTI services during the installs which may mean Im now in a hybrid install configuration. One additional note, when backing up GB of data, if done using the Windows interface it takes about 2hrs, doing it via the boot CD it runs about 4 hrs.

Is there a way to manually control the drivers being loaded on the bootCD to make sure its using optimized drivers for network and disk access. I like to do offline backups periodically just to make sure everything is cleanly backed up, may just be an old habit as I have never had an issue restoring and OS drive from an online backup using Acronis but Im a bit paranoid that way!

Adtl note: I havent noticed any orphaned home group shares when doing a clone vs restore operation. Orphaned shares can appear if one restores a backup to a new drive letter or if someone uses the change drive letter option under disk mgmt while shares are actively used. So far no one at MS has provided an actual way to get at the Homegroup shares dataset so most users are having to do work arounds to fix when it occurs, some of this info is documented on MS Answers forum.

One can also use this principal for least privilage and restrict specific users or home group members to folders on a shared resource.

There isn’t any way for a user to control the drivers used in the Linux recovery environment used by Acronis. You would have to contact Acronis Support with specific machine information and request that they make you a custom ISO of the recovery environment with the latest drivers for your hardware.

The simplest solution is to create a recovery disk based on WinPE, which has the advantage of using Windows drivers.

Additionally, a user can load drivers by using the F6 function while booting the CD. Amateur Radio K0LO. Very good info, I’m curious if anyone has tried this with My7PE, I have built a Windows 7 gui boot disk and adding Acronis to that might also work, I’ve been experimenting with mounting and accessing encrypted disks for work use. In any case looks like a PE 3. I’m at the point where I want to load multiple boot images from a super USB thumb drive, unfortunately the windows installers don’t play well with the linux distributions at this point which mean’s either a quick mod to the root or separate thumb drives.

I have a lot of boot utilities I use for PC maintenance. When you have an encrypted dying hard drive you need to retrieve the customers data very quickly. For GE encrypted partitions the best way I’ve found is to load the ISO Admin utility using the Vista boot option on a thumb drive and retrieve the data via command line interface back to the thumb drive. If you want a multiboot Flash drive, the easiest way to accomplish this is to do all of your bootable builds as ISO image files.

If you use Grub4DOS as a boot manager on the flash drive it is capable of directly booting ISO image files, so you can have as many ISOs on the flash drive as you want, and it’s simple to maintain as your needs change or as programs are updated. Just copy the updated ISO to the flash drive and you’re done. As for the size of the flash drive to hold Grub4Dos, a 4gb will work well or a 8GB will last a long time.

The size of the iso file which loads TrueImage will probably be under , KB which was the size of my most recent TI boot media file which has TrueImage and Plus and Addins as options and Disk Director as part of the boot.

Use of an external or eSata will enable you to store several backups on the storage disk. Use Windows 7 or Vista or the install CD’s and create a single small partition on both disks with each partition being a different size.

Assign names to partitions so when you see the two disks inside the TrueImage as the targets, they will differ enough so you can select the correct disk. TrueImage does display the target disk and its partitions so you can see the partition you created for purposes of identity. Using Win 7 or Vista to create identity partitions also assures you that the correct starting sector will be automatically done so your disk will be aligned correctly without any special effort on your part.

During bootup, the drives will be identified as to which disk number use pause key if needed so this can also help. Disk numbers will differ between Windows and the CD. Windows starts with zero whereas the Linux CD begins with 1. I took Cyborg’s comment about needing a huge flash drive to mean that he has a lot of boot utilities that he uses for fixing computers and he’d like to combine all of the tools onto one flash drive.

That particular utility doesn’t play well with Ultimate Boot CD or my Linux distributions as it uses a Vista bootloader. I currently have a thumb drive that’s maxed out a 16GB. Mainly I use these for system repairs at work. I have yet to find the perfect method where everything could boot successfully from one USB drive. I’ve tried Yumi, Universal boot installer and a number of other utilities for setting up multi-booting from USB.

In some cases I’ve found one Iso image on the drive can make the difference from it working great to not booting at all. If one really had an issue with this why though, I’m not sure – show me a real world case that applies to Acronis as it stands today with the recovery, bootaility, and ability to use the Windows recovery partition and I’ll reconsider , they could create the parition scheme first as described by Mustang in the sticky using the WinPE and then restore the paritions one by one.

MVP LogViewer MVP Google Drive Cleanup Utility Cloning Correctly Clone vs Backup Community Tools Contact Support Product Documentation Common OEM Drivers. Thats not true. The data is then wrong writtn. Only solution is make a windows installation and a volume restore of the primary partition. This mean a empty space of KB is between the first and second partition, and the second partition seems to be at the right place. But this is not good, it confuse users which test the partition configuration with diskpart.

I can’t read German so the article doesn’t help me much. However, I’ve read similar articles and there is validity to what you’re saying. BUT, there is another way to check alignment too, and when I use this method, it divides evenly and shows alignment is correct. Divide that number by If it is a whole number no decimals , your disk is alligned.

If there are decimals, it is not aligned. Mine checks out as a whole number. Realworld performance and usage also tells me I have nothing to worry about. It’s lived well past the manufacturer warranty and shows no signs of slowing down.

 
 

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