Partitions rearranged on restore another question and observation
I had asked this earlier but did more experiments:
Here Mustang reply was:
Acronis doesn't backup the MSR partition when you do a full disk backup. If you restore to the same disk, the MSR partition is left in place. If you restore to a new disk, Acronis creates a new MSR partition. Since the MSR partition is an empty unformatted partition, there can be no data loss.
Which wasn't the case for me. After a full backup this is what and how it restored after wiping drive with diskpart clean.
The Winre rescue media restored the drive exactly as it was with the 16 MB partition exactly at the correct place.
The Linux rescue media did not place all correct, it created a 128 MB unformatted as first partition and placed the efi partition second. But it booted fine.
Why would the Winre and the Linux rescure media restore differently? I have a support ticket in, but maybe someone here has experienced this and knows why. Images included showing after each restore. The correct one is the one with efi 260 MB partition as first partition.
Edit:
The Linux rescue also changes the last partition from 1000 MB to 999 MB, no idea why.


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@Mustang both restores was done as a test to the same disk from same Windows 11 computer after a diskpart clean.
The Acronis Winpe boot media restored the drive back exactly as it was.
The Acronis Linux boot media is the one that did not restore the disk back correctly.
I would think that either one of the Acronis boot medias would restore a disk the same.
Are you saying the Linux Ancrois boot media will not. Which is the issue, why not?
Note, I have used in the past Terabyte unlimited Image for Linux (works for WIndows also), and Image for Windows.
Both IFL and IFW restore a disk to the exact same state, which any restore should do if it's the same disk (not a different size).
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With regard to Linux based media, then there are a myriad of different distros that can be involved, all of which will have different capabilities. Acronis uses a very small distro called BusyBox which has a number of known limitations hence is not the recommended rescue media to use versus Windows PE / RE which is recommended.
Other companies will use different Linux distros.
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I even tried the latest build 40713 as was suggested by Acronis support, but same thing.
I told them I'd stick to using the Winre boot media as it does restore the drive to original (exact) state it was in.
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