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Partitions do not restore in the correct order

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Okay, so here is what I am trying to do:

I have used Vmware to create a system image of Win7 x64, and when I go to restore that image onto my laptop, the partitions don't come in the right order, so I can't boot into Windows.

The image was created using a UEFI VM because the laptop is UEFI.

The 128MB MSR partition just seems to be gone when I restore. What I get when I restore is

100MB EFI system partition
99.8GB Windows (C:)

In between those two there should be a 128MB MSR partition, but it just disappears. Any help appreciated.

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There are quite a few issues to overcome here.

First I would try performing a clean install on the laptop in UEFI mode to see if Windows 7 will even run in UEFI mode on your hardware. I tried installing Windows 7 in UEFI mode on two different UEFI computers and it wouldn't load past the Windows starting screen where the orbs come together on either machine. Windows 7 would only function on those machines in CSM mode from a MBR disk.

If a clean install will boot on your laptop then you can recover just the Windows 7 partition from your backup over the Windows 7 partition from your clean install. This will also result in your partitions being in the correct order.

The Windows 7 you installed in the VM isn't going to boot on your physical machine without using Universal Restore to patch the Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer. The following link has more information on Universal Restore.

https://kb.acronis.com/ati2015/aur

Good luck

Thanks.... You're right about the clean install in UEFI mode. It won't run. Gets stuck on the orbs exactly like you said.

I will look into universal boot, and prepare Win7 MBR/legacy images instead :)

Is universal boot free for Acronis customers or do I have to pay again?

Thanks for the help!

One thing I didn't mention: I generalise my images with Sysprep before deploying them. So they are already hardware independent. It seems like what Universal Restore does is exactly that, which i've already done with Sysprep/Audit mode. Anyway i'll try it without Universal Restore first and if that fails i'll try Universal.

You should be good to go with sysprep