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Post #7...
I purchased a Western digital some years ago, I chose a format from their options then tried to do an acronis back up on it and received a message I had chose the wrong format to do an acronis back up, my earlier WD would let me both drop a copy of a file to it and do the acronis image back up
I spent a few weeks trying to understand what I had wrong and then... gave up
since acronis back up was an option mentioned, does that mean I should not have used the software on my win 7 computer to do the back up?
I'm confused
1 No, I asked about the type of drive. SIW2 worked it out anyway.
3 The user manual tells you how.
5 I just used the url and successfully downloaded a copy.TrueImage11_ug.en.zip
I do not know what any of your later comments mean.
Such questions invariably fail to lead to robust answers.
I suggest you use the list I provided in post #9 and decide which are satisfactory for your purposes.
I don' know what you did or what you are asking.Generic Acronis TI instructions:-Open the application, select Backup,
Click on Select source, select the disks-partitions you want to image,
Click on Select destination, browse to the folder you want to save the image to,
Click on Backup now.
Denis
and, I have no problem with buying a newer version
if that is the problem.... but no point if something else is a problem
curious though, I thought I could go into the image back up and find something that disappeared from an older computer, it seems I could not do that, I can only restore the entire "image"
not find one file?
Perhaps you meant to post this in your thread at www.tenforums.com/showthread.php?t=188058?If you mean an Acronis image then you can definitely rummage around to extract individual files & folders. I imagine that is true for most or possibly all imaging utilities.
Denis
Bios is a familiar word, I really don't understand what it means
I searched "what is an EFI based operating system" and found discussions, completely over my understanding
"""The Unified EFI (UEFI) Specification (previously known as the EFI Specification) defines an interface between an operating system and platform firmware. The interface consists of data tables that contain platform-related information, boot service calls, and runtime service calls that are available to the operating system and its loader"""
5684: EFI-based operating systems support in Acronis products
Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5
Acronis Backup 12
so, a newer version will work with win10
will it work with my WD external drives and, will they work if I need to restore the image backed up?
Not exactly.so, a newer version will work with win10
You need a newer version because you are using efi boot.Not because it is win10.
I you were efi booting win7 you would also need the newer acronis version.