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Wait until the task is finished. Wait until the machine is turned off. Disconnect either the source or the target hard disk drive from the machine. Start up the machine. If you need to leave an NT signature: 1. Click to clear the Copy NT signature check box, if necessary. You may want trying the alternative method which looks far easier for me. Download the free trial of Acronis True Image , create a backup of your drive and restore the backup onto a new drive.

Authored on. Order Asc Desc. Date within – Any – 1 day 3 days 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 6 months 1 year. Thread needs solution. Carlos Currielche. Posts: 1. Comments: 0. True Image still seems to be functioning OK so I am reluctant to risk jeopardising this functionality by blindly attempting to sort out Disk Director further. Please advise if this is worth a try and point me to safe download site for this utility if such does actually exist.

However, now, following attempted \”upgrade\” from DD11 to DD12 could then no longer do anything with this external drive – now reported by DD12 as \”unsupported\”. Having now read some of the negative reviews of DD for those of us not technically expert I am now tempted to write it off altogether for my newer system and just retain the still functional DD11 on my earlier MBR – BIOS based machines. However, any further help or advice you could offer to enable me to regain functionality of DD12 whilst retaining full usage of TI would be most welcome and would encourage me to go ahead with purchasing the upgrade from 11 to 12 for all threee of my PCs.

To investigate the issue, we need some technical information and logs from the system. So, I can suggest you to contact our Support team. What I did? As this had only occurred recently since trying to install the upgrade DD12 over DD11 on a relatively high spec system only six weeks old, I recovered the system back to immediately following installation of the DD11 early January using WIN10 recovery disc and system image – avoided using True Image!

Can\’t think of any alternative explanation. Worked flawlessy!!! Happy camper! DD12 Build says Volume 1 is unsupported. Volume 1 is my internal hard drive. Volume 2 is my external hard drive, which is not UEFI. I tried to update to Build , which supposedly includes UEFI support but got \”an error occurred during the installaation of assembly Microsoft.

Acronis Knowledgebase referred me to an MS hotfix but the hotfix was not for the error message displayed. Also I could not download the hotfix; I was asked to contact MS support and possibly pay for the hotfix. Have you tried applying my solution described in a post earlier in this conversation, posted 12th January at although I didn\’t get your Microsoft assembly error?

I think the key thing is to wipe everything clean ie uninstall both products then reinstall. Make sure you have your product registration codes to hand! Same issues on my side. I would recommend to contact our support team while you have an active support program. Acronis seems to be getting worse about claiming what their products support, only to leave the user with a broken piece of software.

If you have problems with installing the update, as I did, see Jongar\’s earlier post about how to resolve the problem. Yes, I have the latest update. DD11 was not installed on my system, I disabled my anti-virus and disabled the Acronis Backup Service process. I\’ve tried three times – no go. Acronis Disk Director 12 not working on win 10, it seems it worked before but not now why? After upgrade to windows version So yesterday out of curiosity I installed it on my Win 10 64 bit machine and it seems to run.

But the odd thing is that it successfully finds the internal drive that I just upgraded to WD Black M. The build is Any ideas? Does it not see the drive in both Windows and when booted to the bootable media? What is the logical sector size on the disk? Acronis Disk Director only supports disks with bytes logical sector size. Authored on. Order Asc Desc. Date within – Any – 1 day 3 days 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 6 months 1 year.

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I need to know how to remove and disable the anti-virus components of Acronis as they are causing all kinds of problems, interfering with Sophos, hangs, performance, etc. Every day we find a new issue that it\’s causing. This is critical. We only use it for backup and now it\’s our top problem. Before doing so save your settings to avoid the need to reconfigure your backup tasks. After uninstalling ATI, shut down the computer using the restart option, reinstall ATI run as Administrator , then retrieve your settings go into Protection module and disable everything.

I would leave protection against ransomware attacks which has been in ATI since ATI in place; I have had no problems with having illicit cryptomining and Microsoft teams protections in place. After turning off all the radio buttons in the dashboard, stop the Cyber and anti-ransomeware services in services manager. They are such a serious drag on performance and they won\’t let you eject the drive using the task bar USB eject tool. A big nuisance for those of us that swap drives around a lot.

I have done this to all my ATI machines and went back to on another. Pictures below on what you will see. ATI will still backup but you lose the bloatware. It isn\’t possible to stop the Acronis Active Protection or Cyber Protection services in the Services control panel any more! This makes renaming the AAP exe impossible without it being stopped first! Strangely, the other exe files can be renamed without the services being stopped! I will not update until they get rid of that nonsense protection.

Other companies do it so much better with less drag on the system. I just download the. If you need to rename, boot with a Linux USB and go in and rename. Why they don\’t make it an option is ignorant on their part – couple check boxes. Sounds like another Microsoft. I uninstalled on some boxes and reinstalled If it weren\’t for lack of m. Swapping most of my boxes to Fedora Cinnamon.

Love it. Keep it at ext4 and the iso backup works fine and compresses. There is another instance of not knowing the audience. And you wouldn\’t need any protection. Anthony, thanks for your update. I was able to rename all the files with the exception of AAP antiransomware without having to resort to using any USB boot media, and this stopped the main Cyber Protect service from running after a reboot. I never install Windows 10 using a Microsoft Account and you can bypass that by simply typing in anything and letting it fail to use it, after which it still lets you create a local account!

I agree that an ATI backup for desktop Linux would be great to have for many users who are making the move from Windows to Linux. I would expect it wouldn\’t be that great a challenge for them given they have the Mac app already which is already in a similar arena!

Microsoft just instituted a new hurdle – new machine OEM Windows installs require a valid email address to proceed. It doesn\’t fallback on a local account anymore. Just got a new one a week ago and found this out.

Installing from a Windows iso still works latest I tried is vers as you said but anything installed by vendors i. Acer won\’t install without verifying an email and setting up a MS account.

Anthony, the linked article also confirms that you can still circumvent this change by ensuring the PC is disconnected when doing the install! Thankfully, there is one hidden way around this process on Windows 10 Home: You can disconnect your computer from the network. If you have a computer with an Ethernet cable, unplug it. You can now create an offline account and sign in to Windows 10 without a Microsoft account—the option was there all along.

In ATI topic here : Ekaterina wrote:. We do have an incoming feature request to exclude Antimalware components from being installed internal ID for reference RM Allow Agent installation without Antimalware components. I\’ve added your feedback as a vote for this change, thank you! If you have multiple processors cores then open the Context Menu again, click Set Affinity, click off all processors except 1 one , click OK.

It seems to get reset eventually but, in my case YMMV , not for quite a bit of time perhaps an over-night reset or when a backup action is taken I have scheduled backups in the early morning hours.. The following process was used to do that for 4 perpetual Acronis True Image licenses, but, as you say an update can restore the unwanted behavior.

We have disabled updates on the affected machines. This may not be necessary. Your needs may vary and these settings have only been checked for the standard perpetual licenses that we purchased. As you can see from the image, the service was disabled and all the required backup functionality is still working. Note: Always backup any registry entries before changing or removing!

I am going to have to look into CCleaner. Sounds useful. I cloned a Dell to Lenovo and it worked well. Is CCleaner safe for removing some of the Registry garbage left behind? We do use our own remote servers for ecommerce and as an offsite backup for critical data, but we manage the secure communications ourselves. I have shut down firewall access for all but the license software, which is reasonable for what I wanted in a backup software.

I like the product a lot, but won\’t deploy it on a larger scale. Your experiments and mine show that there are not serious cross couplings of functionality that would preclude Acronis from parsing out a standalone product for intranet deployment.

Personally, I think it would also be quite easy to market and deploy. Warren, I have documented the process that I use but for obvious reasons I cannot share that directly here in the public Acronis forums especially as an Acronis MVP. If you are interested then I can send you a link to a password protected zip file via a private message. The zip has 3 small Powershell scripts that do all the \’work\’ along with a document describing their use.

Please submit Feedback directly to Acronis use the tool provided in the GUI Help section and complain about the imposition of these new protection features plus ask for your vote to be added to the Acronis internal change request: TI Allow installation without Antimalware components. Honestly ATI is utter garbage. I have given up and have gone back to ATI which at least seems to work. Have had a long list of issues over the last few months with and support have been literally no help whatsoever.

It is a complete waste of time contacting them because all they is ask for more and more info and never actually solve a problem or help in any way. Honestly it is not worth mucking around with just do not use the version if you can avoid it.

Craig, if you haven\’t already done so, then please submit Feedback to Acronis as per my previous update to Warren above. I have done, I have spent hours working with and responding to their support people, but honestly their \”support\” is hopeless.

I have gone back to using ATI and everything works the way I need it to. Don\’t have time to waste time any further on the VERY buggy version every time they fix one thing new ones come up making the latest build completely unusable in my case it would not allow backup locations to be selected. My advice is to not trust your data to ATI unless you really don\’t care about your backups. Over 30 years in IT has taught me the value of backups but they need to be reliable and restorable, ATI is not.

So therefore not usable in its current form. Craig, while I agree with you on the quality of Acronis Support and the issues with ATI , in particular with the forced introduction of the new Protection features, I cannot agree with your last piece of advice. I have got ATI installed on my main laptop and some other PC\’s and have no worries about the security of my data.

I do not want or use the new Protection features and have these disabled as far as is possible. I will add a caveat to my final statement above, there are issues with ATI that I strongly believe Acronis should have focussed on ahead of introducing the unwanted Protection features.

They should have brought back the full range of features that users have enjoyed for. They should also have dealt with the thorny issue of forcing migration of MBR to GPT when cloning based on the host PC, allowing users to choose the target partition scheme, and brought back the ability to view log files within the main ATI application that was present in the earlier versions! All this should have been a priority over adding Cyber Protect to this application.

They seem to have a good product for cloning, backups, and restore and their product allows you to completely turn off their equivalent security checking. Warren, I have added an update but it isn\’t clear which product Miroslav has for that other topic, i. Cyber Protect business product or ATI? I have not experience with ACP. Changing the service \”Log on as\” to an account with an invalid password, and then changing \”Recovery\” to \”Take no action\” seems to do the trick.

Your workaround is great. Apart from that,I also renamed two files to prevent accidental startup. My PC speed is now back to normal. Authored on. Order Asc Desc. Date within – Any – 1 day 3 days 1 week 2 weeks 1 month 2 months 6 months 1 year. How to stop Acronis Cyber Protection Service. Thread needs solution. Jim English. Posts: 1. Comments: 0. Forum Hero. Posts: Comments: Steve Smith. They are abandoning the current code and starting over, so it would be difficult to give an ETA for the beta, or say if it would be included in the initial release of the new version.

I\’m chiming in here as well. I see from this thread that this known issue has been dragging on for too long, it doesn\’t make sense to me that my backup software is preventing me from turning on this important security feature. If you want to keep my business then you will find a way to fix this issue. The clock is ticking, people. Otherwise, I\’ll move my business elsewhere. I\’ve passed your feedback to the product management, thank you! I\’m sorry to know you\’ve encountered this limitation, however for now we can only suggest waiting for the new product version.

Please note, that Acronis protection and antivirus modules will fully protect your system even if the Memory integrity feature is disabled. I have been having the same problem described above, namely: \”it doesn\’t make sense to me that my backup software is preventing me from turning on this important security feature. Am tired of waiting so long for Acronis to incorporate a solution and will be looking for another backup program I have previously assumed that Acronis sells good and error-free products.

But obviously, Acronis has not been able to solve a problem with the driver tib. It\’s a pity, but an alternative to Acronis should be found. There is basically no information from Acronis I have found except for a few bits and pieces in this forum thread regarding any details of this issue.

May I suggest that Acronis explain technical bulletin? Honestly, TI is advertised to work with Windows 10, but it doesn\’t unless you degrade your security setting for Memory Integrity. As a long time customer of Acronis, I expect your company to acomodate your customers for operating systems that your products claim to support.

Your product is advertised to Enhance customer\’s security not degrade or limit it. Your product currently limits it. Please start standing behind your products and supporting patches to your products when OS security improvements come along like this. Any timeline on fixing this incompatibility between Acronis tib. I need to know or I will have to switch to another product. Core Isolation screen shows you whether Memory Integrity is enabled or not.

To disable Memory Integrity, flip the switch to \”Off\”. I checked and confirm it was turned off. I\’m looking for new backup software as I am very disappointed that this issue hasn\’t been resolved in the last 6 months of it being raised and still no timeline to fix it.

I think others here are having this same issue in Windows 10 and Windows Either find a workaround that we can get rid of, or stop tib. I\’m in full agreement with Mark\’s statements. With no official response, I\’m looking for alternatives at this point.

I renamed the file to tib. SYS – because the scan showed that there was another incompatible driver installed with Windows 10 that needed to be removed. I have been an Acronis customer since I will be requesting a refund due to this issue. You cannot say this is supported on Windows 11 when you either need to turn off security features or hack the installation to get around the security features.

IMO this is not a supported OS if you need to ask your customers to take these steps to install your product. Unfortunately, in the current software version it\’s not possible to overcome this limitation. I\’ve given up on Acronis, actually months ago. I realised I don\’t need it at all. I\’ve got on-line and offline file backup via iDrive and file syncing via Onedrive as part of Office I\’ve got protection against malware, ransomware and multiple other cyber threats via BitDefender and Malwarebytes with image backup and restore via the free version of AOEMI backerupper.

If Acronis had fixed this issue, I might have stayed and spent more than I needed to. But they didn\’t, and haven\’t shown any urgency so they\’ve lost me for good. I have had occasions where my system get hosed-up beyond the ability to recover it via say System Restore. And you sure don\’t want to have to go back to your original factory setup, get all your programs and settings back to where you want them, and then recover your files from your iDrive and etc.

Having an image backup IMO is important and I make one every day. It seems Acronis should make a \”downgrade\” to available to you and any others stuck with the W11 limitation. At least, I believe Steve Smith when he says and do work.

The same approach should work with Windows 11 but I have not tried testing this yet. I had thought of doing this but as I am unsure exactly what would fail after doing so, I decided not to. Wayne, tib.

It isn\’t documented anywhere in the Acronis KB documents. Renaming it as tib. I can still open both. My backups are all still running normally on schedule so currently I again don\’t see any impact from making the change and Core Isolation has been enabled since it was done! It really shouldn\’t be necessary to fiddle with stuff like this. Acronis should have sorted this by now, they\’ve had loads of time to it. Feels like the just don\’t care. Agreed, this or any circumvention shouldn\’t be needed, especially to be able to use an integrated Windows security feature that has been present for since April , which should have been plenty of time for Acronis to fix the issues caused by their Try \’N Decide use of tib.

As mentioned by others, the fact that this core, Windows Security function has been ignored, and that there\’s now been plenty of time to remedy the issue, is unacceptable. This, along with the fact that a previous Acronis image restore failed and required a reinstallation of Windows, is pushing me to find another back solution. I tried to complete the workaround by renaming the tib.

Attempting to rename prompts that the file is in use, and doing so in Safe Mode didn\’t help. Regardless, I was able to enable WIndows\’ Memory Integrity as other have done so with this unnecessary workaround. Cannot find the post at the moment. Thanks for responding, Ian. That may be the case, however we\’re already using a relatively new version that should have included this implementation. Who knows how long this build will last.

It\’s April Why would Acronis knowingly install software that blocks core Windows security functionality It\’s irresponsible! Recommendation: least stop installing tib. Apparently tib. The approach currently taken by Acronis is that you can only do a full installation, you cannot choose which components are to be installed. You also cannot subsequently selectively uninstall components, and it is difficult to components that you do not want to use.

Allowing selective uninstallation of components or facilitating deactivation of some features can present opportunities for malefactors to do nasty things. I suspect the \”obvious\” solution of allowing selective installation of components is a major task, one that Acronis is unwilling to undertake at the same time as they are rebuilding ACPHO apparently from the ground up.

It is my understanding that Microsoft does not have core isolation and memory integrity as a default settings which most users would be unaware of. Instead I rely on the obvious included tools when I install software and decide to uninstall again: either Windows\’ Uninstall, or Windows\’ System Restore, or if those fail to work of course there is ATI Recover from backups which I do every morning.

It\’s a sandbox. Lets say you go to an unscrupulous web site or install a questionable program. If everything is OK, you apply the changes. If there is a virus or you want to remove your history, you reboot to bring your system back to before you tried those questionable activities. This is MUCH faster than a full backup recovery. I have used it a lot. There are plenty of other versions available. One of the free ones I\’ve tried is Sandboxie. It will keep your web activity in a bubble, so that any activity the web activity creates is in a virtual sandbox.

TY for that pl1.