Recovery Partition marked as Active instead of System partition

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Restoring onto new SSD in ASUS laptop.
Originally the hidden recovery partition is marked as Primary and Hidden
System partition 'C' marked as Primary and Active

When I attempt to restore to the SSD and select Primary for the Recovery partition the box to select if active or not is greyed out with a tick in it and there is no way to unselect it.

Even if I mark the System partition as Active the summary page then just removes it and leaves the Recovery partition as Active which is wrong and the system fails to boot.

How do I make it reflect what they originally were - Recovery just Primary and System Primary and Active?

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 15:47
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Fixed it!

There is no way in Acronis you can change which partition is active - it always seems to set the first Primary as active if its a hidden system or recovery partition.

As such, after restoring you need to boot up from a Windows installation disk and go to Repair Computer and then to the command prompt where you can use DISKPART to set the correct partition as ACTIVE and the wrong Partition INACTIVE.

Works a treat!

It appears that Acronis always believes the first hidden partition is the boot sector which in ASUS laptops does not appear to be the case - it is purely a Recovery Partition.

Please note that this problem occurs with Acronis 2014 HD that is supplied with Crucial SSDs. I don't know if the 2015 version has corrected this problem.

Fri, 04/24/2015 - 18:32