Acronis® Home is an integrated software suite that ensures the security of all information on your PC. It can back up all the data you need and securely destroy all confidential data you do not need anymore. Buy a Acronis True Image Advanced - subscription license (1 year) - 1 computer, 2 or other Backup Software at CDW.com. ![]() My mission: upgrade the original 300 GB HDD hard drive that came with my HP EliteBook 8740w laptop to the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB SSD to use the SSD as the primary drive / boot device. The included Samsung Data Migration Software CD will not work for this purpose because “OEM recovery partitions generated at the factory by computer manufacturers cannot be replicated.” HP OEM software has multiple partitions that include a Recovery partition and a Tools partition. It’s my understanding, creating a clone boot drive using ordinary software (including Windows 7 system image backup) will not work to properly copy these partitions. [I’m sticking with Windows 7 Pro (and am not being forced into Windows 10 thanks to Never10) as I lost an entire week of my life trying to recover from a Windows 10 malfunction that stopped search functions.] Acronis True Image 2016 worked great to accomplish the multiple partition boot drive cloning task. The CD I bought from Amazon in June 2016 is out of date and refers you to the Acronis website to download the current version. The 71 characters for the serial number you must enter appear on the paper included in the box. (You’d think we were launching a nuke.) I attached the StarTech SSD/HDD - Hard Drive Adapter Cable to the SSD and plugged it into the USB port. Then I rebooted to the Acronis media which started right up. The Tools and Utilities tab on the Home page offers “Clone Mode” and “Automatic” which accomplished the migration perfectly. Next, turn off the laptop, (remove the battery), remove the HDD from the chassis, separate the HDD from its holding “cage” by unscrewing the two screws on each side, and slide the SSD into the cage. (The two screws nearest the connection don’t seat deep enough on this SSD and make the cage too wide, so don’t use them; just use the remaining two.) Slide the cage into the chassis, and replace the chassis cover. Download lagu last kiss from avelin sesak dalam gelap live. (Replace the battery.) It booted right up for me. At this point, the included Samsung CD can be installed to use the Magician software which enables RAPID Mode for up to 2x faster performance by utilizing unused PC memory (DRAM) as a high-speed cache. The newest version of Samsung Magician supports up to a 4 GB cache on a system with 16 GB of DRAM. I am storing the HDD for any emergency rather than using it for backups should the SSD fail. I hope this review saves you all the hours I invested to learn how simple this can actually be. If you upgrade your memory, you’ll have to remove the keyboard on this laptop, but I was able to fold it back and make the installation without disconnecting all the cables. Bought this based on prior experience w/ earlier version of product and online reviews - CNET, et al. Wasn't too happy during install because Acronis forces you to sign up for cloud backup to activate (and looked long and hard for a way out of that w/o success). So for starters I say 'Hey, hey, you, you, get offa my cloud, ATI.' ![]() I already have cloud service I'm perfectly happy with and don't need another shoved down my throat so you can turn around and charge me for it later. That aside, installed and set it up w/ little difficulty - but you need to look a little deeper and realize you need to set up separate backup profiles to accomplish what you want to accomplish, e.g., a full sys backup and an ongoing backup. Ok, makes sense. Never trusted 'do it all' backups - e.g., Seagate's proprietary setup on external drives. Then, working on a totally unrelated issue involving a printer install, went to reboot my WinX PC and Acronis pops up saying it's terminating current operations - presumably the ongoing backup - and that the PC will shut down in 2 minutes. 15-20 minutes later it's still running, so went online via iPad and found numerous complaints by other users who have waited HOURS and sometimes overnight waiting for this booby trap to shut down so they could continue on with their lives. Not that patient so pushing 20 minutes with no end in sight hit the hard reset. PC wouldn't boot up. Been around the barn too long to believe pigs are parakeets, and after several reboot attempts went into diagnostics and system restore to turn back the clock 24 hours. MS has it's faults, but sys restore is a cherry lifesaver!) Booted back up and took another look at Acronis and all it would do is pop up a 'Hey, we crashed your computer do you want to send us a report?' Dialogue box over and over and over. Can't open the program to make any changes. Seems all it wants to do is give me more opportunities to point out that NASA is getting ready to send manned flights to Mars and that meanwhile down here on man-infected earth you can't even find a decent backup software to work the way it's supposed to. Without crashing your PC, that is.
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