Can we trust Acronis True Image (From HDD to SSD)?

I'm now running Acronis TI Home edition 2010 on the 64bit Windows 10 as well as on the 64bit 7 Ultimate without issues going from Sata II to S3 drives and back from S3 to S2. The program is not only reliable but compresses the size of images down quite more then the backup option in Windows as far as drive space.

It's one of the best written softwares other then an older one like Norton Ghost that used to see a high rep in years past. With Acronis I can leave that running and go off and shoot some bugs or aliens in Steam driven game and find the image backup is complete with TI having run silently in the background. It's light on resources as well as dependable in the assessment I would give it!

As someone once said, "trust but verify".

It should work. It will likely work. It may not work.

You'd be foolish to assume it will work.

Therefore, verify that it has been done successfully before you get on the airplane.

Ah gee I want to get on the flight without wings! Things go better when well grounded!

You can't even give the best Windows out the 100% guaranty of success 100% of the time! Where does leave everything else? And with any images made you would expect to be wanting to verify the integrity since you might have to restore it at some time! This is one reason I had been keeping a second OS drive in limbo inbetween Linux and now 10 in case I had any doubt about a system image made. Boot live off of the acronis cd with the 7 host drive unplugged and restore the image.

In fact the clone of the host drive over to the second for seeing 10 upgrade over that seemed like I was still in the host drive's copy of 7 from Acronis doing a great job with that. If you are in doubt about the present version of TI you have there there shouldn't be with the newer releases which would be even more updated as far as SSDs are concerned.

Even with the different technologies at work as far as hardwares are concerned they still are read in the same manner by software as far as volumes and partition sizes are concerned. Any good disk imaging program will compensate for any difference found in proportional or fixed sizing that you select when going to run the program and have to make the selection.

OUCH! WD as well as Seagate renaming, rebranding so to speak Acronis as the Sea Tools instead provide the stripped down form of Acronis where features like the One Click backup option isn't present. I have that here as well as the full 2010 version of TI now trying to see if the WD will run like the retail version does on Windows 10. If I take a fast screen you can see the two side by side for somewhat of a good immediate comparison.

Since the installation on the first failed attempt of Acronis on 10 left shortcuts behind awaiting a second attempt once 10 was cleaned up I now have to reboot so the 2010 can finish checking for the 2015 version I already have on the downloaded iso for! I'll have to edit this post afterwards to include the side by side view of the two types of the program.

There are competing free applications that do not have the WD limitation.

I don't know if there are free versions of Acronis that don't have that limitation.

Well WD has their own brand of drive there explaining the limits as well as Seagate having their own while the regular freebies are trial versions of TI. Those offer the full features for 30days.

As for trying to grab a capture of both as soon as the 2010 Home version went on the WD shortcut now only brings up the full retail version since both share files in the exact same folder with retail canceling out freebie! :) Anyways I grabbed a fast snipping to add in here.




You'll immediately notice the much larger screen for the full retail version while this doesn' include the OneClick option to schedule full backup images on a custom schedule like having a full system image backup going on a daily basis.