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Acronis TI 2016 MBR to GPT

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Hello,

I use Acronis TI 2016 to create CF cards with Windows 7 embedded. Everything is working fine when Acronis is installed on Windows 7. Bet when it is installed on a computer with Windows 10 it always wants to convert the MBR layout to GPT and the CF-Card will not boot. Is it possible to force Acronis to create a CF card with MBR.

 

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Mick, welcome to these user forums.

You will need to expand on your description of the process you are using here to create your Compact Flash cards with Windows 7 embedded.

Note: see KB document: 8603: Acronis Products Do Not Support Windows Embedded

I'm guessing it's how you're booting the recovery media to push the image.  If you are booting to the recovery media in UEFI mode, it will create a GPT formatted disk.  IF you boot the recovery media in legacy mode, it will create a MBR formatted disk.  It's a similar limitation to that of a Windows installer.

This thread may help:

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/121829#comment-378318

 

Thank you for the answers.
Maybe i don't use Acronis in the way it was intendet... I use it to distribute our Software. I create a Backup of our actual Master Flash and give the Backup to our mechanics in different countries. So if there is a Problem with a CF-Card at a customer they recover the disk on an new CF-Card and don't need to wait until i send it. It worked well until some got the Windows 10 update. I think since some Computers are booting in UEFI mode and some in legacy Mode I will need to find a new way to do this.

 

 

Mick, I think you're using it for the correct purpose. You may need to have your end-users use their one time boot menu to select the other boot method though when they start Acronis.  Chances are, you have a legacy image (MBR), but these newer machines are defaulting to UEFI.  If it's possible to enable legacy/csm mode in the bios, then they should be able to boot Acronis in legacy mode and restore the image as they have in the past. 

is the CIF card itself "bootable"?  Could you not just duplicate the data from one card to the other?  If that's all it needs, you can do this with copy/paste or robocopy or a free sync tool like allwaysync.  If the CIF card is bootable though, then image and restore is the way to go, but you'll still run into issues with different machines if you are 

Yes it is bootable, but I found a solution. When I create the partitions I need with the extra tools in MBR Layout and restore the volumes it works.