UEFI BIOS
Hi Guys,
I have had and enjoyed True Image Home 2010 for an number of years and it just works great ...
However, now I have a new computer with an UEFI Bios and Win 10 and it looks like my 2010 version is outdated.
The problem being that Acronis 2010 does not recognize my primary disc with the operating system on it and since it can in fact, see my secondary disc just fine, I am assuming it has to do with the new BIOS.
I have another machine with widows 10 and and a GIGABYTE MB and that works fine, so .....
Can anybody confirm that Acronis 2016 will work with an UEFI BIOS ???
Just wat to be sure before I upgrade..
Thanks in advance
Rgds
Kim

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Hi S22,
Thanks for replying ..
So, I guess that it will not do any good to upgrade at this point...
Wonder if we will get a fix for this - I really miss the easy back up, that I have become so dependent on ...
I will have to make do with the windows back up for now, then ..
Rgds
Kim
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Hello,
Kim Ulsing wrote:Can anybody confirm that Acronis 2016 will work with an UEFI BIOS ???
Look at this discussion, it seems UEFI works :
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/100263
Cheers.
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Kim
of Course this may all be Hardware and for sure driver related and ATI2016 may work with your system.
I would suggest downloading a test version of ATI2016 and try out before you buy it
S22
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Hi Alaini,
Thanks for answering ..
That does sould like it might works after all ...
Have you tried it and does it work like described ...
I do also run 64bit and it does make sense that stuff has happend since the 2010 version.
Just wanted to be sure before I upgraded - I do miss it a lot - it is so easy to use ...
Rgds
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Kim
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Hi S22,
It might very well be, but have you seen the reply from Alaini and maybe tried that ??
Rgds
Kim
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Kim Ulsing wrote:Have you tried it and does it work like described ...
I have not tried it yet, because my new computer has not been delivered yet (new purchase).
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Hi
i tried serveral ways (and of course i tried UEFI boot as well) with different HW and different results....
So far only my Surface2 Pro seem to work proper with ATI2016 now (after adding third party UEFI cert to Surface bios).
i have 3 other tablets were it works partially only........
I would really suggest try before buy....
S22
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Hi Guys,
Thanks for the answers - should any of you come up with a solution, please post it in this thread and I will also do so, if I work it out...
If anybody from Acronis sees this, please let us know what to do ....
Thanks again,
Rgds
Kim
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Hi
i think we must make differnce between two things:
1 to get ATI2016 booting in UEFI environment at all
2 ATE Boot environment to support hardware its used on.
I did get ATI2016 booting on all of my UEFI devices but on 3 of them i cant see system disk after booting.
on two devices (64 bit systems) i can use ATI2016 WinPE env and within this i can see the system harddrive
one question: is your primary disk using bitlocker?
Your second disk is an internal drive as well?
S22
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Hi,
My primary disk is a Samsung SSD and it is not using bitlocker.
My secondary disc is a WD hard drive which is installed internally....
My old boot disk from Acronis 2010 will boot OK, but since it will no see my SSD disk, I can't make a back up or restore ..
Hope that makes sense ...
Rgds
Kim
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I'm not sure we can compare a computer and a tablet, there are big hardware differences.
I didn't even know ATI could work on a tablet.
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Alaini wrote:I'm not sure we can compare a computer and a tablet, there are big hardware differences.
I didn't even know ATI could work on a tablet.
Basically if the tablet is using a normal windows (not windows RT like Surface and Surface 2) we for sure can compare Tablets with Desktop computer.
I think differences more come from Hardware components that are used (like SSD drives, Sdcard readers or Mainborads with different bios implementations)
MY desktop is using Intel Chipset my Tablet as well
S22
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Hi,
Just to finish up on my problem - I went ahead and bought the 2016 update and it seem to work.
I have created a backup of my C-drive without any problems and I have also created a boot media on a USB stick and that works as well...
I have not yet tried to restore an image, but I don't expect any problems with that, either...
I guess my 2010 version was just to old and needed an update ....
Hope it will work out for you as well and thanks again for the response .. :-)
Rgds
Kim
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@Kim,
Make sure you can boot the computer on the rescue medium *and* restore a couple of files from the backup.
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I have tried booting from my USB disk and that works fine...
I have no reason to belive that the restore won't work but I will try as soon as I feel brave enough .. :-)
Rgds
Kim
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Hi Kim,
It's always a good practice to really test a restore.
I have successfully restored my disk (which is UEFI) on itself, without any problem.
But when I tried to restore it to a new disk (identical to the original disk, same size, same model, same manufacturer), it was more difficult, because of an ATI bug, which doesn't display the new disk.
The solution is to install Windows 10 on that new disk, exactly as you did on the original disk, so that Windows creates the same partitions. Then you can restore your disk using ATI.
Look at my message last night here :
https://forum.acronis.com/forum/101403
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Hi Alaini,
Thanks for responding.
I am trying to work up the nerve to try a restore and I will probably do it this weekend.
It is reassuring that you say it works fine when restoring to the original disk, since this is most likely the way I am going to use it.
I will try this weekend and let you know how it goes ...
Rgds
Kim
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When you recover you can select all partitions, but if your disk is UEFI/GPT do not select "MBR and Track 0 box" for recovery.
If your disk is MBR, I don't know if you need to recover "MBR and Track 0 box" or not.
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Hi Alaini,
OK - I did not know that - thanks for the info .. :-)
I am running UEFI/GPT, so I guess I should only do recovery on the data particion then ...?
Rgds
Kim
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As an example, here is what ATI boot media allows me to select for recovery (on each line the first word is my decision to select or not for recovery) :
YES : C: (that's my Windows 10 partition)
YES : D: (that's my data partition)
NO : MBR and Track 0.
YES : Recovery partition (450MB).
YES : EFI System partition (99MB).
Of course, if you have made important modification to files in C or D since last backup, copy it elsewhere, because it will be deleted.
I guess you could also recover only some of those partitions, but I didn't test that.
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Thanks - I will try working with this - Will let you know how it goes...
Fortunately, my PC is rather new, so if everything goes wrong, I could just start from skratch, but I would like to avoid that...
On the other hand, I have to try - otherwise I will not trust the software and then I will not dare to mess with the PC and after all, that is part of the fun of having one ... :-)
Rgds
Kim
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Hi Alaini,
I promised to give a feedback and I can say that everything is working the way I want it to .. :-)
I did a recovery according to your specification and it just worked so now I can mess with mý system, the way I want and always have a working image to go back to...
I will probably, for 99 per cent of the time, do a restore back to the original disk and I can see from your other threads, that you are also wolking with restoring to a new disk and that is something I will have to adress if my HDD breaks down, so it is good to know that ATI 2016 also handles this part ...
Thanks again for all you help with this .. :-)
Rgds
Kim
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