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trying to restore acronis image fails, convert to vhd and boot?
for backups of my main OS (in my signature) I have acronis TIH create a single image full backup daily to a different drive. Weekly a single image backup is created and saved on a different drive. Because my SSDs are in RAID0, every few weeks I make a system image backup using Acronis (outside of the daily and weekly backups), clean/all the SSDs to put everything back to 0 on the drives, then restore my installation. It makes a significant performance increase for sure.
This last go around a week ago, I did the usual but could not restore no matter what I did. I bought the new version of acronis, the plus pack, unplugged all the other drives, etc etc etc that acronis told me to do to try to fix the error I was getting restoring any backups.
Finally what I did was take an old backup, transfer it over the network to a different computer, bought acronis TIH again (ridiculous) and was able to clone it to a drive, plug the drive back into my main rig, boot acronis from a USB drive and clone that installation to the SSD raid setup. The only problem was, the backup I was able to use was from 7-10. I'm now trying to convert the images which would not restore to VHD to boot from the bootmgr screen of the currently restored (7-10) installation.
Every tutorial I see only deals with creating a new .vhd to install windows to and boot. If I have these backups copied as .vhd already what do I do?
For the record, Acronis help desk is worthless. I bought >$100 of software upgrades which did nothing, and I will be getting my money back for them. Their first suggestion was to run chkdsk/r on all the drives before trying to restore. That took 4 days on my 2TB green drive, and didnt work anyways.
I'm 12 days into this problem and losing my mind over it.