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cannot backup system - "Recover now" is greyed out

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I have a full backup of my system drive on a second hard drive.

I had a system crash and had to replace the MB

When I reloaded windows and installed Acronis True Image 2018, when I go to Recovery and select the backup and the destination drive, RecoverNow is greyed out. 

Do I have to create an Acronis recovery boot disk to do this operation?

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Bruce, welcome to these public User Forums.

Any recovery of the Windows OS drive is recommended to be performed when booted from the Acronis Rescue Media.

I would recommend creating the Windows PE version of the Acronis Rescue Media as described in the KB documents below.  I would expect this to be more reliable.
KB 60820: Acronis True Image 2018: how to create bootable media
KB 60091: Acronis True Image 2018: how Simple bootable media creation mode works

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

See KB 60131: Acronis True Image 2018: how to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

When doing the restore of your backup, this needs to be done as a Disk & Partition restore and at the top Disk selection level.

Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.