Windows 8 Upgrading options
I currently have a Windows 7 machine with ABR 11.0 with Dedupe and Universal Restore. This works fine backing up and restoring an Intel ICH9 Raid drive config.
I am now building a separate new machine to replace this machine, which is an HP Z420 workstation with a LSI Megaraid 9260-8i controller and Windows 8 Enterprise. Apart from having separate partitions for the pagefile and the 350Mb System partition, I have two main partitions which are my C: and D: drives. The C: is an NTFS (MBR) partition and the D: is NTFS (GPT) partition.
My questions are these:
1. According to some of the literature on the Acronis site, ABR 11.5 does not support Secure Boot and won't do so until the next version but the datasheet says that it is Windows 8 compatible. So is Safe Boot a problem for 11.5 or not? I don't mind if I have to turn off Safe Boot in the BIOS but I would prefer not to.
2. Am I going to have any problems with backing and restore a 3.6Tb GPT partition? I am assuming that my Acronis media disk will need the necessary LSI Megaraid drivers adding to its config as it was the adding of these drivers to the Win 8 install that enabled GPT in the first place.
Thanks
Thank you very much.
I have now purchased 11.5 ABR Advanced with Dedupe and Universal Restore. I have downloaded the executable (abr11.5a_37608_en-eu.exe) but because it is not listed in my products (only the old 11.0 versions are shown), I cannot find an MD5 or SHA1 checksum to verify it against. Where should I find this or could you send me the checksum? Please note it is the en-eu version rather than the en-us version.
If you register the serial number in your Acronis account 11.5 should appear in your downloads too. However, if you need to verify that installer is downloaded correctly, you can check digital signature in file properties - if in digital signature details button 'this signature is valid' appears, then it's not corrupted.
I needed to be more patient. I didn't need to register the serial numbers but I did need to wait 12 hours before the systems caught up with the purchase. Thanks for your help.
I also tried to backup a WIndows 8 machine with UEFI secure boot set.
I could boot from the Acronis Bootdisk (made with 37608 build), but when the backup starts, it aborts with an error:
Code: 0x135003D
Module: 309
Owner: root
and
Code: 0x190009
Module: 408
Owner: root
message: Feature disabled.
Why the feature is disabled? Does this come due to the fact that windows 8 uses UEFI and secure boot?
Rebooting the Win8 machine over the network (PXE also with build 37608) it stops immediately with the message:
Network boot-IPV4 has been blocked by the current security policy.
Today I download the 37613 release, but I do not have the windows 8 machine anymore, so I have to wait and test this again.
'Feature is disabled ' error occurs because of missing license. What licenses did you specify during bootable media creation? Did you manually extract kernel and ramdisk from bootable disk to write the mo some other media?
I just created the bootable media from my Workstation from which I could make a backup. But I wanted to try this media on a different PC, but then I was not able.
I also installed now the latest version 37613, and I see that the PXE server issue is solved now (tested with VMware).
I will create a Bootable Media again with the latest release, maybe the issue I was seeing is now also solved.