Windows does not boot after working with Acronis Disk Director. How to increase disk capacity with After disk acronis, the computer gives an error
Many Windows users familiar with such a popular program as Acronis, which allows you to carry out complex work with your computer’s hard drive. Unfortunately, working with the program does not always go smoothly, and one of the most common problems is the message “No hard drive found.”
As a rule, the error “No hard drive found” is accompanied by the code E000101F4, and it indicates that the program cannot continue to operate. Such a problem can occur for various reasons, but, as a rule, there are not many of them.
Reason 1: outdated version of Acronis
First of all, if you have installed outdated version Acronis, it must be updated to the latest version. To be safe, try using different versions of the program from the developer’s website. It is quite possible that one of them, which is this moment used on your computer is unstable, which is why the error we are considering occurs.
Reason 2: BIOS setting
In this way we look into BIOS settings, namely in the disk subsystem settings section (SATA Mode). We need to make sure that the “ACHI Mode” parameter is activated for this item, and, if not, make the necessary changes.
First of all, we need to get into the BIOS. This can be done by turning on the computer or rebooting it, and at the very early stage of startup, start pressing the key responsible for entering the BIOS (most often the F2, Del or F1 key is responsible for entering the BIOS).
Once in the BIOS settings, you will need to find the ACHI Mode section. Please note that for different versions BIOS access to this item can be done in different ways. In our example, we need to open the section "Integrated Peripherals".
Next you need to select "OnChip SATA Type" and set the mark to "ACHI". The only thing left to do is save the changes and leave the BIOS.
If this does not help, set the BIOS all in the same menu "SATA" option "IDE".
Start Acronis and check for the error. If this step does not solve your problem, return previous settings BIOS.
Reason 3: Incorrect MBR
Please note that the following steps will delete all data from your disk.
The hard drive may not be supported by the program due to the fact that several partitions on it share the main boot entry. As a rule, a similar reason often occurs if the disk was formatted by the manufacturer. In this case, the problem can be resolved by reinitializing the disk.
This can be done from command line using the utility DiskPart. You can access the command line in the process Windows installations. To do this, in Windows Installer, press the keyboard shortcut Shift+F10.
A command line window will appear on the screen, in which you will need to enter the first command and click on the Enter key:
diskpart
With this command we launched DiskPart utility, which runs in a command line environment. If more than one is connected to the computer HDD To continue, we will need to find out the number of the disk we will be working with. You can get this information with the command:
The DiskPart utility numbers disks starting from zero, so when you see the desired disk, you need to remember its number and run the following command:
Select disk [disk_number]
For example, the command might look like this:
Now we will need to erase the MBR entry to remove the old disk structure. To do this, run the command:
Create a new master boot record with the command:
A wiped disk must create at least one partition, otherwise the system will never be able to read the data. If you need to create a single partition, i.e. one drive, for example, C:, then the command will look like this:
Create partition primary
If you plan to create two or more partitions, then you will need to run several commands like the following:
Create partition primary size=[disk_size_in_megabytes]
For example, we want to create the first partition of 10 GB in size. Considering that there are 1024 MB in one MB, we get the following command:
Create partition primary size=10240
We format the disk:
Format quick fs=ntfs label="System"
Now that the partition has been created, it needs to be given a letter. You can do this with the command:
Assign letter=[drive_letter]
For example, if you want to set the partition to C, the command would look like this:
Assign letter=c
We review the changes with the command:
And finally, we finish working with the command line:
Reason 4: Acronis malfunctioned
If you are working with Acronis from Windows, you should try reinstalling the program, first completely removing it from your computer.
To uninstall a program, it is better not to use standard means Windows, and the program Revo Uninstaller, which will completely uninstall the product without leaving a single file or registry entry on the computer.
Once the removal is complete, restart your computer and begin downloading new version programs from the official website of the developer.
Reason 5: Software conflict
If you use other programs on your computer whose functionality is similar to Acronis, they can easily cause incorrect operation the instrument we are considering. For example, the Partition Magic program.
If in this case we hit the mark, we will need to completely remove such programs. By complete, we again mean using the Rev Uninstaller program or uninstalling the program using an uninstaller, followed by cleaning the folders and registry yourself.
Actually, these are the main reasons that can affect the occurrence of an error with the visibility of disks by Acronis. If you have previously had experience solving a similar problem, tell us about it in the comments.
Question: Working with Acronis Disk Director 12
Good afternoon everyone!
The problem is this. I purchased Acronis Disk Director 12 and am trying to increase the space on drive C. But no matter what I do, after a reboot everything remains the same!
What could be the problem.
Thank you
Answer:
Off-topic:
Message from Sapendo
I can’t do it through the regular one! because Drive D is occupied with information, and there is no way to temporarily drain it!
Will you find the time, place and opportunity to do data recovery (if Acronis messes up)?
And if on topic, then such programs work from bootable media, and not from the system.
Question: Acronis program error disk director
Hi all.
Hard drive for 500 Gigabits, 120 of them are local drive C. The other day I almost ran out of space on drive C and I decided to add from drive D. I separated 20 Gigabytes from drive D and stuck it to drive C. Rebooted. When loading, the following error occurs:
I tried to recover from the Windows disk, it says that the disk is locked. I tried everything with the installation disk, nothing works.
F8 and other buttons do not work, only enters the BIOS through F2.
Help who has been there
Answer:
Off-topic:
alexnavin
So what?
In the results of the query I generated, the very first link (suddenly) leads to a topic on this forum in which a newcomer asks about similar problem. At the same time, he shows that working with search is not alien to him. So, the date of registration and the number of messages are not indicative.
Question: DISK D is displayed as RAW after an operation on local disks using Acronis Disk Director
Good afternoon. The problem is the following: disk D is displayed as RAW after an operation on local disks using Acronis Disk Director.
I believe that it is possible to restore access to the disk without losing any information from it.
Please help.
Answer: I got lucky: of all the D partitions that DMDE found, only one displayed directories correctly. I deleted the one that was set as the main one, and assigned the one in which the folders were displayed correctly as the main one. After rebooting, access to the disk returned. An initial inspection showed that the information was in place.
However, my goal was never achieved: I intended to use the free D drive to increase the size of the C drive. As I already said, I chose Acronis as the tool, which led to failure.
Can you tell me how best to do this?
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By the way, I noticed that “Disk Management” shows the volume of disk D as 278.55 Gb, but Explorer indicates that the volume is 241 Gb. How to fix it?
Question: After working with Acronis Disk Director, Windows does not start, loading stops on the motherboard logo
Sorry in advance to another idiot who decided to use acronis)
There is a stationary computer, one hard drive is 500GB, the other is 1TB. The 500 hard drive was divided into 46GB(C) and 420GB(D). Windows Seven was in the partition with 46GB.
Since the memory on the partition with the system was almost always in the red zone, I wanted to take 20GB from the second partition and throw it into this one. Acronis Disk Director 12 successfully cut off 20GB, but after adding them, upon reboot it gave something like this:
ERROR OCCURRED:
Text Error while loading configuration file
Code: 00000000009B0001 C99355CCD3E906BB
SUBERROR:
Text Error: The Specified File Does Not Exist
Code: 0000000000040011 8A6441D30679BD24
SUBERROR:
Code: 00000000D0000034 BD28FDBD64EDB8C6
press
After pressing Enter, the computer only booted up to the splash screen with the motherboard inscription. The BIOS does not open. It is also impossible to choose what to start from. When you disconnect the hard drive, all LiveUSBs are loaded. With it connected, no, because, again, you cannot choose what to boot from.
I borrowed a computer from a friend and it was recognized as a hard computer. But it only opens the system partition (C). Section D with programs, games, documents does not open. When I try to open it, it displays a message that the disk is unformatted and suggests formatting it.
It is not advisable to format; I would like to save all the information and the system itself, if possible. I realized that I can’t do this myself, so I turn to you for help, good people)
I did not perform any further manipulations with the disk, except for opening folders on partition C.
I am attaching an image with dmde, crystaldisk and what partitions look like in disk management right now
Answer: Sorry for disturbing. It was the last few days, there was no time to treat the computer. Of course, I would like to go the hard way and try to figure out what the reason is, but I decided to save time and formatted the entire disk, and then installed everything again. Thanks to everyone who responded for their help!
Question: Acronis Disk Director killed (?) hard drive
Hello, dear forum users!
Situevina is like this (I’m from afar): There are 2 hard drives (HDD) on the computer - the main one is 1 TB, and so on (music, etc.) is 300 GB. I decided to expand the logical disk where the OS (Win7Prof) is installed. I’m not used to working with OS tools, I’ve always approached it radically - through installation disk I go to the hard drive (after making images of logical disks (LDs) Acronis.Tru. Image.Home.v11_ru - ATIH), kill all the partitions, make new ones with the sizes I need, and restore the data through the Acronis boot disk.
I got a little confused, did not first disconnect the 2nd HDD, and deleted it (via the boot disk). Having previously restored all the data on the main hard drive, I downloaded Acronis Disk Director (ADD) and restored the 2nd hard drive. And then it began...
At first, ATIH did not see the main hard drive (file 00 in the attachment). When I try to search by other means, I only see external drive(file 11). When trying to show off, ATIH sees nothing at all (file 22).
I started to approach the main HDD through the installation disk, it sees the LDs, but cannot do anything with them - all menu items are inactive (DSC files). Only the "Format" item on the system LD is active. Formatted, installed the OS from the boot disk, the OS sees the disks (file 33)
As soon as I try to do something through ATIH - all over again - it does not see anything, but when reboot BIOS says it doesn't see the OS. And all over again...
I tried to connect a third hard drive, I have it with WinXP SP3, for a work computer - so everything there is only through BSOD - it just tries to boot, then BSOD...
I reset the BIOS - took out the battery for 10 minutes - no use...
Now I want to try a hard drive from work, I brought a computer specially with WinXP SP3 on it, but I’m afraid - what if it kills it too? They'll blow your head off at work...
Who has any thoughts? Has anyone encountered something similar? Did ADD play a trick? It all started with him... I have no suspicions about ATIH - this particular package has been working for me for 10 years. Or did the railway itself die? Just a coincidence? I'm not worried about the information, I have everything in Acronis images, but it’s a shame for the railway - it costs money...
Answer:
Message from Tau_0
9285 now, like grandfather Lenin
So so be it. Good luck to everyone, and thanks again for participating.
Question: Acronis Disk Director shows 2.023 mb of unallocated space
Acronis Disk Director shows 2,023 mb of unallocated space on two different computers. Neither parogon nor other programs see this space. Is this an Acronis glitch or is it so advanced that it sees what others don’t see?
Answer: Mizhonik, I support Ceper@, but this is not the problem, Acronis just shows the space used to align partitions. In short, everything is fine, don’t touch this space. That's how it should be
Question: After resizing the system and information partitions using Acronis, the system does not boot
After resizing the system and information partitions using Acronis Disk Director, the system stopped booting. When you turn on the PC, it appears Windows window then it says Acronis Disk Director and then goes to reboot. And so on continuously.
What to do? Windows 7 system.
Answer:
Message from top1956
What to do?
If you cannot boot into the OS from the problem disk, then use any LiveCD and post screenshots of DMDE and Crystal Disk Info.
Question: Win 7 only boots in safe mode after Acronis Disk Director
Hello dear forum users!
I have little knowledge of the technical side of the issue, I hope for your understanding.
A month ago, there was a need to expand the C: drive on the laptop at the expense of D: (both on the same physical drive). I first tried to do this using the DiskGenius 4.6.5 program (rutracker.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4754783&start=30). The experiment ended with a strange blue screen (like it was glued together from two) after applying the changes, but at first glance there were no changes after the reboot. Next, I used Acronis Disk Director 12 (also from Windows) and assigned to take a bite from D: 10 GB (or a little less, I don’t remember) and attach it to the system C:. Then, after a reboot, when loading Windows, a system message appears about the need and then the impossibility of checking the disk (apparently chkdsk). The "Welcome" message appears and the cursor spins, but the system does not respond any further.
In safe mode, it is clear that Acronis still took a bite, but did not sew it on. It seemed to me that the page file could be to blame for this failure (exactly 2 GB were allocated on the disks). Both disks are functional in this mode.
Actually, how can you restore the normal boot mode and get back the lost GBs. Is it even worth rebuilding the disks on a laptop from Windows using any program?
I provide a log of reading 0-100 sectors using the dmde program (do you need any others?). Screen of smart and partitions. Thank you.
Answer:
easykey
Yeah, this is a phantom key - one in normal mode, another in safe mode.
Question: Windows does not boot after formatting the Acronis Disk Director partition
Hello!
This is the situation: there are 3 Windows 7 on the computer, one is extra, I tried to format the partition with it, it didn’t work, deleting the folders didn’t work either.
I installed Acronis Disk Director, chose to format this partition with Windows, Acronis asked to reboot, ok, some actions of Acronis on the screen, and now after a message from the motherboard there is a black screen (with a cursor).
I tried to reinstall Windows, but when I reboot, this black screen again prevents me from reinstalling.
What could Acronis do, how can I fix it? It is advisable to obtain data from one partition (system partition with the required Windows).
There are 2 hard drives on the computer, each divided into 2 partitions.
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I used Bootrec.exe, first FixBoot, then FixMbr, now the ScanOs command responds that 0 Windows systems were found, although before that there was one.
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I also used bcdboot.exe, it didn’t help.
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I booted the system from a LiveCD, the same Acronis disk director, all the partitions are in place, that partition was actually formatted by Acronis.
It’s not clear why it ended so fatally and nothing helps.
Answer: I entered all 4 combinations of the bcdboot command with the letters c and d, now I can select both systems from both HDDs.
Moreover, on the first HDD, by default, the system that is installed on it is loaded, and on the second HDD, by default, the system installed on it is loaded. This is done simply - the last command bcdboot sets the default system, that is, if you need to change it, then repeat this command again for the desired system and HDD, the third entry in the bootloader will not appear, which I initially feared
Question: After using "Acronis Disk Director 12" several gigabytes were lost
I realize that I made a grave mistake by using this good program. It was necessary to transfer gigabytes from drive D to C, but at the second stage many errors appeared. And the computer rebooted, the gigabytes that I wanted to transfer from D were lost in the chaos, C remained with the same volume. I've lost quite a lot of gigs... Help me get them back, I saw a similar topic, but I didn't really understand anything. I have Windows 8.1x64, if you need anything else I will provide it, just please help!
Answer: I agree about software, I think it’s hard to find ideal programs (and most likely to create them too), essentially you look at them the same, but they don’t seem to be the same, you’ll be lucky if the program does something bad, but not very bad. For some people, I read that after Acronis, drive D stopped opening altogether, fortunately this didn’t happen to me, in the computer field hard drives I don’t understand, and I had to find something that would do everything for me, it turned out to be a bad experience, but later it turned out that it helped me, while investigating this problem I did learn something... I know a lot about computers, but it’s impossible to know a computer completely and increasing your experience, even in dangerous ways, certainly won’t hurt. True...the main thing is not to overdo it with danger)))
. You may receive this error when working in Acronis Disk Director, which is a partition manager. hard drive.The error can occur when performing various operations in this program, but most often when increasing the space of one disk at the expense of another, for example, increasing the space of drive C: at the expense of D: on a laptop and a simple computer. The cause of the error is not always due to damage file system hard drive, and checking hard drive partitions for errors may not give any results.
The file system is damaged
Hello friends! The reason for writing this article was the comments to my other article. Some users, after working with the Acronis Disk Director program in Disk Management, experienced the following situation - when separating space from the D: drive, this very space disappeared into nowhere, while the Acronis Disk Director program, in turn, nevertheless showed that the operation was successful carried out and drive D: became smaller, and drive C: larger.At work, I also often had to deal with this problem and I have a solution for it.
What’s interesting is that there may not be such a “File system is damaged” error, you just work in the Acronis Disk Director program, then reboot and will be very surprised when you enter “Disk Management”, one disk will become smaller, and the other will remain the same.
The last time I encountered such an error was like this. At work, my neighbor, the system administrator, came up to me and said in a whisper: - listen, I have some kind of mystic going on, it seems like I didn’t drink yesterday. On a laptop with the operating system installed Windows system 7, I need to increase the space of drive C: using Acronis Disk Director, I take space from drive E: and attach it to C:, and after a reboot this space disappears into nowhere, drive C: remains the same, and drive E: gets smaller with each my attempt.
In the "Disk Management" of this laptop there was such a picture, drive C: occupied a capacity of 97 GB, and drive E: 650 GB. The letter D: was occupied by the drive, so we will work with drives C: and E:.
The task was set as follows: take 100 GB from the E: drive and attach it to the C: drive so that it is approximately 200 GB.
In this situation, you cannot perform such an operation using the operating system itself, so I decided to use the Acronis Disk Director program,
Having booted from the program’s boot disk, the first thing I did was pinch off 100 GB from drive E:. Right-click on drive E: and select “Resize Volume” from the menu.
A window like this will appear. Let's change the size of the selected volume (E:) down so that the unallocated space is before the volume (E:) and after the disk (C:), set it to 100 GB, then add the freed volume to the disk (C:) and it will become 100 GB more.
With the right mouse we grab a kind of delimiter and move it to the right, thereby reducing the space of the E: drive by 100 GB and click OK. 100 GB of unallocated space appears.
Now right-click on drive C: and select “Resize volume” from the menu.
The following window will appear. In it we move the delimiter to the right to the end, thereby increasing the C: drive by 100GB and OK.
Our program works in pending operation mode and for all our actions to work, we need to click the “Apply pending operations” button and “Continue”.
Here, friends, attention, sometimes an error may appear" The file system is damaged. Use the checker to detect and fix file system errors". What to do? I'll tell you further.
Exit Acronis and reboot.
After the reboot, we immediately enter “Disk Management” and see a strange situation. Disk C: what size it was and remained 97 GB, and disk E: became less than 552, 13 GB.
At this time, you begin to criticize me and my article and also the Acronis program, and in the meantime I begin to hiccup accordingly.
Again, boot from the Acronis Disk Director disk. Let's do this. Let's pinch off a small piece of space from the C: or D: drive and leave it unallocated, then boot into the operating system and attach it back to the C: drive, but using the utility Windows programs"Disk Management".
Right-click on the C: drive and select “Resize Volume” from the menu.
Sometimes it may happen that after downloading bootable versions of Acronis products, the following message is displayed: Error E000101F4: No hard drive found.
1. The MBR may be incorrect. Only one partition can contain the master boot record and therefore the hard drive is not supported. This often happens if the hard drive was formatted by the manufacturer. The disk needs to be reinitialized.
2. If the Acronis product reports that hard disks were not detected, then access to the disk is likely blocked by third-party software. If you have copies installed software except Acronis, temporarily disable it. Make sure the problem is resolved. If you use antivirus applications, disable them temporarily. Make sure the problem is resolved.
3. Download the Acronis driver update, download and install.
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5: SnapAPI 2140 (SnapAPI 1204 for Windows 2000)
(!) You must restart your computer to complete the installation. The Acronis SnapAPI software module is responsible for all operations on the hard drive.
4. Try creating bootable media based on WinPE. To create such media, you need the Acronis True Image Home Plus Pack add-on. Such media may have the necessary drivers because WinPE-based bootable media (BartPE) uses Windows drivers to access disks.
5. If you continue to have problems with Acronis Boot Disk, then the only solution is to update your license. The version is probably outdated. We will not develop it further.
We recommend installing a demo version of the new version to make sure that the program works flawlessly. Create Boot disk Acronis and check its functionality.
I want to say that in most cases a standard bootable CD created using Acronis Bootable Media Builder or bootable media based on WinPE. But, if the recovery environment still cannot detect any drive, network adapter, mouse or keyboard, this usually means driver problems.
Therefore, if the bootable media does not contain the required hardware driver, you can contact Acronis user support, if the program is licensed, with a request to create a custom bootable CD with all the necessary drivers.
Please note that finding the appropriate drivers and creating custom bootable media may take a significant amount of time. Additionally, in some cases it may not be possible to find the appropriate drivers.
About license renewal. Updating the license is not always the only and mandatory solution to the problem. There is a high probability of error “E000101F4” on motherboards with Intel processor causes the operation mode of Serial ATA controllers. To resolve the error, you need to try changing the operating mode of the IDE controllers to AHCI, which motherboards enabled by default. This protocol was developed by a special initiative group led by Intel and appeared in Intel chipsets, if my memory serves me right, from the 915 series.
However, keep in mind that the drivers for IDE controllers and AHCI controllers are different. Changing the operating mode of IDE controllers to AHCI in Windows XP will make it impossible to boot the operating system, because the AHCI driver is not integrated into the distribution. And installing a driver on an installed operating system is fraught with certain difficulties.
In Windows 7, the necessary driver is integrated into the distribution. It is enough to enable the operating mode of the AHCI controllers in the BIOS and operating system will install the driver itself.
Note.
I would like to add that if several Acronis programs are installed, license renewal may cause conflict between them. For example, once, updating the Acronis.Disk.Director v11.0.0.2343 license to the Acronis.Disk.Director v12.0.0.3223 version in Windows 7 caused Acronis True Image 2014 Premium.v17.0.0.6673 to completely malfunction.
All users can be divided into two groups: those who regularly make backups and those who have not yet started making them. If you belong to the second category, then this only means that you do not understand well or fully the number and scale of troubles that can damage your data - theft, fire, hurricane, viruses, software bugs, hardware failures, errors users and stuff like that. Well, or you haven’t yet encountered the “quest” to restore data after its loss (which, unfortunately, can not always be completed successfully). Be that as it may, it is better to know in advance what mistakes should be avoided when backing up, so we present to your attention eleven mistakes when creating a backup. These are not so much errors as they are tips and a list of strategies that should not be used (primarily for Mac users). Welcome to cat.
1. You can’t help but make backups
A recent Backblaze post cited data from a year-long survey that found that just 8% of respondents backed up every day (a couple of years ago this figure was higher), 16% backed up once a year, and 25% didn't back up at all. At the beginning of summer, we also conducted a survey, the results of which are no less frightening - 90.6% of respondents are not ready to lose data, while only 74% of respondents make backup copies of important data (of which 57.9% use only an external drive for this).Doing nothing is one of the worst approaches. You hope that, regardless of your (or other people’s) actions, everything will work perfectly, but not a single computer can guarantee this to you - sooner or later you will lose data and regret it.
2. You cannot rely on data recovery tools and services.
If you accidentally deleted a file from your MacBook, there is a chance that you can recover it using special programs for data recovery. If this was not possible (for example, if the drive itself was damaged), then your only hope is in specialized data recovery companies. However, believing that you can use one of these methods is simply stupid. Sometimes the cause of data loss is theft or an unscheduled meteor shower, as a result of which you simply do not have a disk on which to perform all the above operations.3. Don't rely on autosave
Indeed, some applications perform automatic saving documents, giving you the opportunity to pick up where you left off, even if the file was never saved with a name (an example of such an application is BBEdit). However, not all applications work this way. But even if they work, situations always arise when users accidentally or mistakenly delete autosave files. It's no secret that most systems Reserve copy they assume that the user will at least save and name the file - often autosave is enabled only after this step.4. Don’t make backups manually
There are many people who back up their entire system (or at least parts of the files) whenever their heart desires, either by creating clones or manually copying files to another drive. Of course, this is better than nothing, but this is a very unreliable and fickle approach - there are a thousand and one reasons not to make a backup one day. And according to the law of meanness, it may well happen that you lose data on the very day when you forget or do not have time to make a backup. Therefore, automatic backups are a more reliable option. Even, perhaps, the best.5. Can't be relied upon only on Time Machine
Time Machine is a great (free) tool built into OS X - Apple has made a good bet on simplifying the backup process. Time Machine is good . But you should not completely trust this application. For example, in the article “Why I Don’t Rely on Time Machine”, the author talks about how he encountered an unrecoverable Time Machine error, as a result of which he had to clear everything backup disks and start copying everything again. The disks were fine, but the data was not. Even the vaunted recovery tools did not help. Time Machine can work perfectly for years, but if it stumbles even once... Although Time Machine is a reliable utility (and does a good job as an auxiliary backup tool), it is better not to rely only on it.One more thing about Time Machine: if your entire disk has failed, the only solution is to format it or replace it and then restore the backup - this process can take many hours. You will not be able to use your Mac during this procedure, so we strongly recommend making bootable copies of the system, or “clones.” But this leads to another problem...
6. Cannot be used only clones
Clones are a great thing. If something goes wrong, they allow you to get back to work almost instantly (reboot the system while holding Option and select a clone). Clones also make it possible to roll back the system to previous versions OS X, if the update was completed with errors.The problem is that clones don't give you the ability to restore by accident deleted files or access earlier versions of them if the clone has been updated (some applications provide file archiving capabilities, but you need to understand what you are doing). Another problem is that the clone is stored on your MacBook, so if something happens to the computer (tornado, robbery), then the only backup will disappear along with it. This problem leads us to the next conclusion...
7. You cannot store backups on the same machine
A hypothetical meteorite could destroy a house in California, but it is unlikely to simultaneously destroy the CrashPlan data center in Minnesota and other places where you may store your data. This also applies to data lost as a result of theft, burst pipes, fire - misfortunes much more likely than a meteorite fall. If your backups are stored on a local machine, then they are protected only from a certain range of dangers. This problem can be easily solved by simply giving the backups to a friend or, for example, placing them in a bank safe deposit box. You can also use cloud services like CrashPlan, Backblaze or DollyDrive. In short, make sure you have a backup on the side.But, oddly enough, the opposite statement is also true. Not worth it...
8. ...have only online backups
They are ideal for a huge number of situations, but restoring a multi-gigabyte piece of data from cloud storage (let’s forget about the whole disk for now) can take a long time. In this situation you are limited throughput Internet provider communication channel. And some providers still have a limit on downloaded data, so the recovery procedure can take a long time. This is why, in addition to cloud backups, you should always keep local backups (of course, if you want to boot from a clone, it must be on a local hard drive).The next two errors also apply to online backups.
9. Don't use Dropbox (or similar services) exclusively
Dropbox is great and very handy tool, although many others cloud storage(iCloud Drive, Box, Amazon Cloud Drive, Google Drive, Yandex.Disk, Microsoft OneDrive, etc.) have approximately the same set of functions. Most of them even offer a primitive backup function that restores old or deleted files (if they are less than a month old).This is all good, however, such services are more suitable for storing a small number of files rather than for a full backup of the system or the entire disk. In addition, in most services the free space is quite modest in size, while additional space for storing a large amount of data will be a regular and significant expense.
10. Don’t think that web applications don’t need backups
You use Google Docs, Office 365, iWork for iCloud, or other web apps (of which there are countless) to create and sharing documents? Many of us use these services at least occasionally. That's good, but are you making local copies of these documents? If the answer is “No,” then it’s bad.There are countless cases where people have opened Google Docs (or something else) and discovered that an important document has disappeared for some unknown reason. And what to do in such a situation is unclear. Situations like this don’t arise often, but believe me, they do happen. Don't count on the fact that cloud service will adequately restore the lost data, or that you will be able to do it yourself (even if you have data in the cloud, you will not always be able to access it due to problems with the server or with your Internet connection, and this will happen at the most inopportune moment). Therefore, it is better to make your own backups of cloud documents. You can use special utilities, for example, CloudPull (see the article “Back Up Your Google Data with CloudPull” (“Making a backup of Google documents using CloudPull”), although it is already old).
11. Don’t think that RAID and backup are synonymous
RAID combines multiple hard drives into one logical volume. One option for setting up RAID is mirrored RAID (RAID 1), which is most often confused with backups. The essence of RAID 1 is that each block is written to two different physical disks, thereby providing 100% redundancy (RAID 5 and 6 also provide redundancy, but in different ways). It's not exactly cloning because the data is always current and updated. Isn't this wonderful?Actually, not always. Exactly constant updates are part of the problem. If you accidentally delete a file, it will be deleted from both disks of the mirrored RAID. If a directory or file has been damaged, a virus has penetrated you, or some other problem has arisen, this will have the same effect on both disks. Of course, if the array is stolen or damaged, the files will be lost. RAID 1 only protects your data if one of your hard drives fails (it happens) and nothing more. So remember that a disk array is not synonymous with the word “backup”.
Do it normally - it will be fine!
It's great if, while reading this list of ridiculous mistakes, you are convinced that your data backup strategy is perfect and free of the described shortcomings. If so, we hope you enjoyed taking a look at how the other 92% of the population lives.However, if you recognize yourself in at least one of the points, do not rush to get upset - we just made this post to help you fix it. We've all been through this. It is necessary to understand errors and correct them, especially when it comes to the safety of important data. Just do it backup copy right now, after reading the article, taking into account the errors mentioned above - after that you can be sure that no meteorites will destroy your data, and you can focus your efforts on more important tasks, for example, protecting against zombies :)