Acronis True Image may fail to back up an NTFS-compressed partition
Vista
Acronis True Image Echo Build 8163 or lower has compatibility issues with Removable Storage Management of Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008. As a result, tape drives are not supported. Update to the latest build to fix the issue
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This article gives explanation of why one cannot set a task to be executed at shutdown/logoff in an Acronis product when it is run in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008. This article also provides a workaround for this issue
Acronis True Image Home analyzes partitions for too long at application startup in Windows Vista. This most probable cause is that there is a considerable amount of shadow copies for the partitions
Repair the Acronis True Image Home 2010 installation to solve the issue
This has been fixed
Add full security permissions to the backup file to solve the issue
There is no WinPopup service in Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008
Acronis Snap Deploy does not properly recognize Windows images with Bootmgr in the first sector of the partition
Windows Vista hangs on first reboot, when trying to install it on an NTFS partition formatted with Acronis Disk Director
This is normal behavior if you boot Windows with both the source and the cloned drive attached
Acronis True Image 9.1 and older versions do not support Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008
The error message shows up only on the first boot after system restore
List of operating systems supported by Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
Obtaining cdrecord.log to troubleshoot issues with creating Acronis Bootable Media or with creating backups on optical discs
How to obtain ftp.log file
If your computer does not boot or you have a new computer without any operating system installed on it, you can boot your computer with Acronis bootable media. The bootable media is a USB flash drive or a CD with Acronis software on it. This way, you can recover from a backup in case your computer does not boot anymore.
How to create a bootable USB
All current versions of Acronis software can create bootable USB flash drives. We recommend creating a bootable media in advance.
To back up the system encrypted with BitLocker you will need to create an image from Windows