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I am in a panic!

I backed up Win 10 before attempting some changes. The changes predictably failed.

So I restored my verified disk  backup to a formatted GPT disk but it fails to boot. Something called Intel Boot Agent appears and fails. I have never seen it before. I have UEFI bios enabled.

How do I restore bootabilty? I tried Acronis MBR format with the same result.

This is serious, everything for the past 10 years is on that backup so sleep is impossible!

I live in hope,

David

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David, please can you provide more details of exactly how you did the restore of your backup as this may help us to better advise you?

If your target disk drive was formatted as GPT then this implies it is a UEFI BIOS boot system and the restore must only be done using the same boot mode, not using MBR / Legacy boot.

In the BIOS for UEFI Boot you should have / see 'Windows Boot Manager' as the boot device and not the actual disk drive by make / model.

The approach that you should be following for the restore is:

Create the 'Simple' version of the Acronis bootable rescue media (on a USB stick / DVD) and test that you can boot this in UEFI mode.

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

KB 69472: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: how to create bootable media

Once booted to the rescue environment, do a Disk level restore of your backup (clicking on the top Disk option when it is presented, not on the individual partitions below that level which are selected automatically when disk is clicked).

KB 69427: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

After the restore is completed successfully, check the Log for the task before leaving the rescue environment, then remove the boot media and external storage drive before attempting to boot into Windows.

Many thanks for the advice. I am afraid that at 82 I'm not as switched on as I used to be. I'll readdress this AM

1. I have restored my disk backup to an SSD gpt disk from my laptop using latest Acronis 2021 like the backup.
2. I have assumed that Acronis has advanced enough in the last 5 years to recognise any irregularities and deal with them.
3. The restored ssd now has a small 128mb (fs 'other') partition flagged 'gpt,msr'  followed by E: NTFS 931gb GPT Primary with my win10 using 62gb.
4. Have not tried to boot it yet because it's past my bedtime! Anything I should know before I try? Does that'other' partition require attention?
5.Confused by 'restore must only be done using the same boot mode' as I saw nothing about this when I restored??? How do I change the mode prior to the recovery?

Thanks again,

David