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TI Recovery (Windows app) reverses system partitions.

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I am posting this anew with more info. I have reproduced this on 3 different computers.

I have EFI system. First 2 partitions, in order,  are ESP (might be called EFI) and "Other". This is typical for all UEFI Windows 10, look at it with partition manager software.  When I restore (TI Windows app) image of this it reverses the first 2 partitions.  Still boots and turns out Windows doesn't care where the EFI partition is. However, it is unexpected and concerning for the long run. For testing I did not do the restores to the original drive for fear of messing it up.

The TI rescue boot restore method does not do this and reproduces the original drive exactly. I have ongoing email with TI tech support getting nowhere. They just keep asking for more data and I am asking them to just do it and tell me what they get. Frustrating. 

Can anyone try this? Just check your drive partitioning (using partition manager tool), make an image from windows, restore it (from windows) to a spare drive and look at partitions.

Thanks

 

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Bertram, this is a known issue that has been reported multiple times in these forums with no change from Acronis.

The bottom line here is that the actual order of the EFI System and Microsoft System Reserved partitions do not actually make any real difference and do not prevent systems from booting correctly.

Personally, I try to always use the Acronis rescue media when doing any recovery involving the Windows OS drive. 

Any recovery started from within Windows normally requires a restart into a temporary Linux based OS environment in order to continue the process, and as such, that Linux environment does not work well with some types of NVMe M.2 drives or if RAID is being used, due to lack of support in the OS.

Acronis is moving away from the Linux based rescue media in favour of using Windows PE media.