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MBR image recovers to UEFI install

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Yesterday I did the free Windows 10 upgrade since I wanted to reserve the free Windows 10 update for my system. After noticing a slew of errors in the Windows event manager as well as various problems with the system I decided to revert to a 2 days old backup of my Windows 8.1 Professional system.

However, when I use an Acronis boot stick to recover the image, Acronis only offers me the option to recover to an UEFI image. I do not want this for various reasons. How can I make Acronis correctly recover the MBR image to an MBR install?

EDIT: Apparently, this is standard behaviour. Acronis seems to be too dumb to differentiate between UEFI only and mixed boot, so it always defaults to UEFI. Rather stupid, I think...

Anyway, disregard this topic.

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