I bought a Seagate external hard drive and it won't let me use Acronis

OldMike65 said:

Also ...Macrium is MUCH faster than Acronis .....plus takes up a lot less space on your hard drive. Unless you try running it on a dying drive of course....

I haven't found that in my case. When the drive was good. What version of Acronis are you using?

@hollyoaks777,

I would suggest you create a USB flash drive or DVD of Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Boot the computer from that and run Macrium Reflect included in his tools. Use that to attempt your backup with. You might have a better chance of succeeding because it will be backing up the Windows partition when it is not actually in use. Run Macrium Refelct while booted into Kyhi's recovery tools and the Windows partition on the hard drive is just data now and not an operating system that is running.

hollyoaks777 said:

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Toshiba hard drive review is that good?

this is for a desktop drive not a laptop. So it's apple to oranges.

hollyoaks777 said:

How does a backup save a dying disk?I don't understand that.

she just trying to get as much data off the dying disk as she can.

OldMike65 said:

I completely removed Acronis about 2 years ago. Every year when Acronis came out with updates, the program kept getting bigger and bigger, and causing more problems then it was worth. Taking up HUGE amounts of hard drive space and actually slowing down my computer, even when it was not ruining. Its a Bloated piece of software. You will find VERY few people on here that still run Acronis.

OK I will be using Macrium from now on then
Do you have to make a new flash drive for every download/update of it?

NavyLCDR said:

@hollyoaks777,

I would suggest you create a USB flash drive or DVD of Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Boot the computer from that and run Macrium Reflect included in his tools. Use that to attempt your backup with. You might have a better chance of succeeding because it will be backing up the Windows partition when it is not actually in use. Run Macrium Refelct while booted into Kyhi's recovery tools and the Windows partition on the hard drive is just data now and not an operating system that is running.

Please tell me the Toshiba drive will do my laptop. Just seen. It's for a desktop NavyLCDR

SoFine409 said:

this is for a desktop drive not a laptop. So it's apple to oranges.

What do you mean it won't fit my laptop?it's 2.5"

NavyLCDR said:

@hollyoaks777,

I would suggest you create a USB flash drive or DVD of Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk

Boot the computer from that and run Macrium Reflect included in his tools. Use that to attempt your backup with. You might have a better chance of succeeding because it will be backing up the Windows partition when it is not actually in use. Run Macrium Refelct while booted into Kyhi's recovery tools and the Windows partition on the hard drive is just data now and not an operating system that is running.

I will do NavyLCDR