Acronis backup 11.5 Update 5 - Trouble recoving GPT partition
My dell laptop died within its warranty period and they suggested I remove any data from the unit before sending it in for repair. Since the unit was non-functional I purchased a Startech NGFF SATA adapter removed the M.2 SATA drive from the laptop and hooked it up to my desktop. I created an image of the drive and then cleaned the drive before re-installing it back into the laptop and sending it off for repair. When I got the laptop back I removed the drive hooked it up to the desktop PC and went to restore the image. I get an error message and can't proceed with the restoration it says "Acronis Active Restore: Can not use active restore to recover a GPT partition". For kicks I selected the desktop backup image (which is MBR) and it allows the option to restore. I'm not sure I understand why it would allow me to make a backup of a GPT partitioned disk if restoration was not possible. What I read about active restore suggests its used for restoring databases which I'm not really doing but I can't say I understand what its function is. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

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I've looked but I don't see a place on the recovery screen to disable active restore. I've looked in the program options but don't see an option there to disable "active restore". I have also googled for "disable active restore" and not found anything that talked about disabling this feature. Please advise.
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Hello Mike,
Thank you for providing a screenshot, that is helpful! On your screenshot I see, that not all recovered items have been matched with the target drive. I believe that is the reason why the button Ok is grayed out and the message about Active Restore is just informational.
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