When recovering from an image, Acronis does not allow you to select the desired disk (receiver), what's the catch?

Question

Backup

Good afternoon, dear colleagues.
I suddenly encountered a problem while using Acronis True Image 2018, please help me to resolve it.
Given:
I was doing the quite trivial task of migrating a laptop operating system from an HDD to an SSD.
Created a bootable Acronis flash drive, booted from it, took a full HDD image.
Then I started the recovery process. At the source selection stage, I selected all the sections that were in the image.
And then I ran into a problem. When choosing a destination (receiver disk), the SSD to which I actually want to deploy the image becomes inactive, I cannot select it. Only my other drives larger than 1 TB are available for selection.
Previously, I had already deployed images from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD and everything was smooth, but now I can’t figure out what’s wrong.
HDD
Seageate 1TB
5 partitions
Total occupied 112 GB. 256GB Western Digital Green
Primary
SSD Unallocated Primary Connected via USB docking station.

Answer 1

Only my other drives larger than 1 TB are available for selection.

It is logical, given that you have a 1TB disk image.

Previously, I had already deployed images from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD and everything was fine, but now I can’t figure out what’s wrong.

You probably did it not through an image file, but by direct cloning - then Acronis can reduce partitions according to the target disk. But if you have a finished image - alas.

please help me to resolve it.

Yes, easily.
Boot into the original system, and with the help of acronis, or a regular disk manager, compress the partitions.
That is, for example, you have a 100GB partition and 10GB of data in it - compress it to 15GB.
In general, you want all partitions to be no more than 240GB in total, at the same time you can put things in order and remove unnecessary sections by dragging information from one to another.
After that, you also make the image with Acronis and it will deploy it to a 256GB SSD without any problems.

Answer 2

Acronis True Image 2018

And why did you choose him? There are other backupers and cloners, incl. and no less famous - say, Norton Ghost. In addition, the option to create a disk image and clone it is available in many advanced partition managers - for example, in Paragon's HDM and AOMEI Partition Assistant. This is me hinting that if Acronis TI creates problems, then the world has not converged on it like a wedge.

I was doing the quite trivial task of migrating a laptop operating system from an HDD to an SSD. ...removed the full image of HDD. Then I started the recovery process.

Your choice of how to accomplish this task is incorrect. Regularly for this, in the same advanced partition managers there is an option "Automatic migration of OS to SSD", it is more correct to use it, since it guarantees correct operation for different sizes of the source and target disks (well, it takes into account some specific nuances). It is also not clear why you needed a disk image for this procedure - it is more appropriate for backup, and cloning can be done without intermediate operations, directly from disk to disk.

Previously, I had already deployed images from a larger HDD to a smaller SSD and everything was smooth

Perhaps this time you launched exact copying, which takes into account not only files, but also the space not occupied by files, but you should have enabled the option to ignore it (many backupers/cloners have it).
And one more nuance.

Created Acronis'a bootable flash drive,

This is extra work, which also made you a pirate (you hardly bought Acronis TI, which costs several thousand rubles, right?). It's better to get used to using the universal repair and recovery LiveDVD/LiveUSB. It is enough to create such a tool once and for all, and not to do it for each application, as you do. Personally, I use MultiBoot , which I recommend to you too. It contains all of the above programs and several hundred others, and would be useful not only in this case, but also in thousands of other cases, similar and completely different.

Answer 3

I have a similar problem.
I made a bootable flash drive. I stuffed it with everything I needed and was happy to boot from it. Naturally, I made a full sector-by-sector backup from it, so as not to lose it.
I decided to put an office, since there is plenty of space on the flash drive (119Gig) and something went wrong. The flash drive stopped loading the computer, and when I stupidly decided to restore the saved backup to the same flash drive, Acronix wrote at the bottom Cannot restore the selected disk.
Checked the image. Everything is clear. Offered to restore to a larger USB flash drive - Acronix allows. But for the same one, no. Then I suspected that the flash drive was physically worn out, I took out a new one exactly the same - no! I also did not want to restore it to the same brand new one.
How to make Acronix restore its own archive to the same flash drive? And what are these tricks?