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True Image has not found any hard drive - solved

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Lenovo B50-80 laptop, Windows 10, UEFI, Secure Boot, GPT disks. All attempts to boot Acronis True Image 2015 rescue media via USB, CD or PXE gives the same error message. True Image has not found any hard drive Event Code: 0x000101F4+0x000A01FD The above is given regardless of changing BIOS to use Legacy, Secure Boot disabled etc. This defeats the purpose of having Acronis True Image 2015 to create a recovery image of this laptop if it cannot recognise GPT disk drives. This is of particular concern because the free AOMEI Backupper 3.1 program creates rescue media that has no problem finding the GPT drive on the same machine with the same BIOS settings. Searching in the Acronis Forums show this same problem being reported for multiple previous releases, supposedly fixed in 2014 and later. I am a long term Acronis True Image user having purchased from version 9 and all versions since but will now need to seriously reconsider if this issue cannot be resolved to allow recovery in the event of a hard drive failure.

Update: 8th December 2015

I have managed to resolve this issue and have successfully booted from rescue media and have full access to my hard drive partitions etc.   
The steps taken are described in the attached PDF document.

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Attached are an Acronis True Image 2013 System report (zip file) and a photo of an attempt to run Acronis True Image 2015 System Report which never produces any output report - just hangs as shown in the photo.

Note: To get the Lenovo B50-80 to boot from CD media requires that the BIOS OS Optimized Default setting be changed from Windows 8.1 to Other OS, and UEFI boot mode changed to Legacy boot, then options for both EFI and SATA boot from the integrated Optical drive are shown - the EFI = UEFI boot, SATA = Legacy.

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