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So i have been using incremental backups for about 18 months and one of my PC's stopped booting up. The configuration was pretty simple 1SSD, 2 HDD, windows 8.1 ASUS Z87 Pro UEFI bios.

I replaced the SSD and tried to then restore the backup and thought , great this will be easy.

So my first issue, why an earth do i have to decide what partitions on the backup go where on my SSD drive. Why is this not automatic, i just want a system restore and know nothing aboout UEFI Fat32 boot partitions. I picked what i thought looked like the right mapping , the restore was sucessfull , yet the computer did not even boot up.

SO basically am i wasting my time and is Acronis totally useless on windows 8.1 UEFI machine, or is there someone out there who knows how to do the restoration. I can supply a lot more information but won't waste my time if the product is in reality not fit for purpose.

SO far i have lost all faith in the product and will be dumping it once i know what the experince of others is.

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First, the backup needs to include all the partitions on the original disk, and all partitions are not necessarily selected by default. The recommendation is to switch to disk mode when you create the backup task and to select the entire disk.

Second, when you restore, the partitions are not necessariliy listed in the right order. To avoid any confusion, check the box at the disk level when you select what to restore.

The product does work very well, but it is not super simple to use and users can easily make mistakes. Then, just like any backup software, the technology is evolving with UEFI secure boot GPT implementations.

OK Pat i will try Disk backups instead of Partition backups next and see if that works on this PC. Clearly it seems that i am not going to be able to recover the system , but once i have a basic insatllation i will test Acronis and see if it works. If not i will report back , but i have to say , i am pretty certain i selected all partitions, and i am getting the dinstinct impression that there is no guarantee that Acronis works on UEFI and GPT systems.

I really hope this is not the case.

Is anyone else having these kind of basic restore issues ?.

Can anyone confirm that Disk backups works over Partition Backups ?

Scotty wrote:
pretty certain i selected all partitions,

We strongly recommend full disk mode backups, to eliminate the "pretty certain" risk that it wasn't done properly. Disk mode ensures that you have everything.