Windows 8 Backup and Recovery to Smaller Drive

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I just started my trial of Backup and Recovery 11.5 workstation and so far I'm not impressed. My problem is I have a client who has an existing installation of Windows 8 Pro on his laptop. He want's to move to a SSD. Typically you make an image and restore it. No worries. I've found conflicting information about restoring a Windows 8 drive and haven't found any answer. According to documentation it should work.

So,
1. Has anyone ever tried this?
2. Has anyone ever got a Windows 8 restore to work.
3. How did you make it work. Is there a walkthough of sorts.?

I've got the latest version of 11.5 installed, no available updates. I installed Windows PE 4.0 (Automated Deployment Kit 4.0?? something)

I created a new backup using 11.5
I'm stuck restoring. One error message says "Cannot use Active Restore if recovering to a GPT volume when my volume is GPT.

There was another says "Active Restore cannot be used on Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and later systems."

??????

Help...

Thanks,

Perry

mar 22/10/2013 - 20:07
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You don't need Active Restore, just ignore this warning. If 'OK' button is not active, however, there must be other warning that may give a clue why is it so, or some 'required' and not filled sections on the page.

mer 23/10/2013 - 07:54
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Ok is grayed out. I spent 2 days working on this and have given up as it looks like 11.5 Disk Director and Backup and Recovery 11.5 will not restore a Windows 8 image to any other drive and have it be bootable. I've tried from smaller drive to larger on the target computer and a bench computer. I get stuck every time with errors saying Acronis will not work with windows 8, server 2012 or later or that it can't make it boot because its not a GPT disk, when I change the disk to GPT it says it can't restore to GPT.... VERY frustrating. hopefully the next version will support windows 8 fully.

Is there a white paper about this hidden somewhere?

This has really effected my decision to purchase Acronis......

mer 23/10/2013 - 19:47
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If OK is grayed out, there are some required and not filled fields. It may looks like in the attachment. You need to specify where to restore MBR and partitions (or without MBR in case of GPT disk). If the original system booted from GPT disk (i.e. in UEFI mode) and you want to keep it UEFI-booting, then you need to use 64-bit bootable media and boot it in UEFI mode as well, otherwise it will attempt to convert recovered system to MBR booting mode.

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jeu 24/10/2013 - 18:53