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Acronis True Image 2016 and MBR

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Hello,

I have an image created by Arconis True Image 2012 (created Nov 2015) which I want to restore on a harddrive.

Because of using Windows 10, I was forced to buy True Image Acronis 2016. I implemented the old image to it (containing MBR boot layout) and use the recovery function. Acronis True Image 2016 now automatically converts the target drive to GPT boot layout. Unfortunately my old system cannot handle GPT boot disks. Due to the target drive is only 64 GB, there is no need to convert the disk to GPT. Also track-to-track recovery does no changes.

How can I tell Acronis True Image 2016 to use the same boot layout as stored in the image?

Best Regards,

Ingerd

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You do not need TI 2016.

 You need to boot the TI 2012 recovery media in Legacy/MBR mode to do the restore. Do not try the restore from within Windows on a UEFI/GPT system. This will cause the restored disk to be converted from MBR to GPT format.

Thanks for your advice using a TI 2012 recovery CD. Because I never created one, I reinstalled Win7 on an old PC and used TI 2012 to perform the recovery. Importing old images to TI 2016 seems senseless if the application isnt able to recover the data the same way as it is stored in the image file. I dont know why TI 2016 has no expert mode where you can choose the boot layout or simply ask the user which boot layout he wants...

Ingerd, the way you boot the Rescue Media determines the disk layout as Mustang advised above.

If you boot the rescue media in MBR / Legacy mode, that is what you get on restore.

If you boot the rescue media in EFI / UEFI (Secure boot) mode, then MBR gets converted to GPT on restore.