UEFI and "MBR and Track 0"
Aconis True Image 2016 (Build 6571)
Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
ASUS GL552VW Laptop
The ASUS GL552VW Laptop is entirely UEFI. CSM is greyed.
The hard drive is a 1 TB GPT.
I made an entire Disk mode backup of the hard drive.
When the drive failed, I replaced the hard drive with an identical model.
During the recovery process, TI shows "MBR and Track 0" as one of the checkboxes.
Since the system is entirely UEFI based, why does "MBR and Track 0" appear?
What is it for since UEFI does not use the MBR for CSM disabled systems.
Thanks in advance.


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MBR is master boot record. It exists on both MBR and UEFI systems which is listed as the "system parition" id disk management. When restoring a full disk image, restore all partitions and you should be good to go. The backup process is not creating these paritions and they already exist on the drive when they are being backed up in the full disk backup. To keep things as simple as possible, if you take a full disk image, then restore the entire disk too - there are almost no times when I have needed to not restore the selected paritions of a full disk backup.
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A good rule of thumb is if you are restoring to a new disk then select the MBR and Track 0 for inclusion in the restore. If you are recovering to the original disk then the MBR and Track 0 should be left out of the recovery.
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