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I created a flash drive boot along with my backup.
I needed to change the boot sequence to the flash drive first, switched it to Legacy Boot and Acronis 2013 loaded and ran fine. Since its a touch screen tablet I did have to use a USB keyboard and mouse.
The restore commpleted successfully but when I switched back to UEFI and rebooted to the GPT disk, it was exactly the same. There was no restore at all.
I believe with GPT disks and UEFI Acronis has been become rather worthless.
So the I finally got to the point where a restore was successful. Tried all partitions and just the C-drive to restore. No change, the restore just doesn't plan work even though it says it was successful.
Any other ideas on how to restore a Win8 machine?

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So I'm starting over again. I restored the entire system from the Acer recovery disks, reinstalled True Image and doing a new backup to a different external drive. Only thing I can think of is that maybe there was something wrong with the other backup image and the recovery terminated without throwing an error message. I want to see this work before I start using this tablet. If True Image is having problems with GPT disks then I need to know up front before I reply on it for backups.
Its not a Win8 issue since I have no problems with my Win8 laptop that does not have GPT disks and UEFI.

Make sure when you restore that you don't select the MBR restore option, this won't work with a GPT disk and will cause strangeness.

Thanks Colin. I have tried with the MDR restore and without it.
I did 3 restores last night with just restoring the C-drive and all said successful in True Image but only one sucessfully restored the drive.
Now I need to retest and see what the differences were between what was successful and what wasn't.
All I know is they sure didn't test this very well with UEFI and GPT disks. Least they could have done is modified it so you aren't trying to install their boot loader or do a restore directly from Windows 8 when neither will work at all with UEFI. Windows 8 compatible its not.

Finally got a good restore.
I ended up with a ATI restore ISO image on an external hard drive with grub4dos since ATI wouldn't make my USB hard drive into a recovery drive. I needed to go into the bios and pick legacy boot and the USB hard drive as the first boot drive. After a successful restore I then has to change the bios back to UEFI to boot off the restored hard drive.
Why ATI wasn't restoring from my flash drive I haven't a clue (32gb sandisk cruzer). And what's even stranger is that ATI was reporting the restore was sucessful. I even copied the backup image off the flash drive onto the USB hard drive and tryed that image again and it worked. So it all comes down to the flash drive. Very strange.

BTW if anyone if working with a Tablet, you must have both a USB keyboard and mouse since neither the touch screen nor the bluetooth devices work with ATI. And in my case I needed a USB hard drive rather than using a flash drive.
I'm not sure booting off the flash drive and then restoring from a hard drive image would have worked. I didn't try it since my Acer tablet only has 3 USB ports and they were taken up by the keyboard, mouse, and boot device.

Rich Muller wrote:
I even copied the backup image off the flash drive onto the USB hard drive and tryed that image again and it worked. So it all comes down to the flash drive. Very strange.

Was the flash drive connected to the same port you used for the USB HD? If not, was it via a hub or remote port? That can cause a less-than-ideal connection which prevents ATI from restoring the image.

Don't connect via a hub, a port in a monitor, a USB extension cord, etc. Connect the external drive directly to a USB port on the rear of the computer case.

Thanks for the reply. The tablet only has one USB port so to get an external drive, USB keyboard, and USB mouse all working I have to use the docking station which only has 3 ports. Since its like a built in hub within the docking port all 3 ports should be the same. At any rate, all my tests were done with the same port order, the lower one had the mouse, middle had the keyboard, and the top was either the flash drive or external hard drive. You would think regardless of which port was used or type of external drive, if the external drive booted and went though all the motions of restoring the internal disk and even reported a sucessful restore that it would indeed have restored the internal drive. In this case, the flash drive just wouldn't do its job.
Its either some kind of fault associated with it being a flash drive or maybe the difference in the ATI program between the flash drive and the ISO image used on the external hard drive. While the basic programs were the same the flash drive did have some options preselected by ATI where I had to make more choices doing the restore using the ISO image. Without comparing the 2 side by side, I'd suspect these preselected options will hold the key as to why the flash drive restore was failing.
This is a Acer W700 tablet with Win8 and after buying and returning 3 different Windows tablets I found this was the best buy for the buck. I test software so the abilities to restore multiple and different backup images which contain different setups is a must, ATI has always been my first tool for that job. Its just finding the right combination with ATI that takes way too long. They really need to make this software a little better plug and play...