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Trouble writing a recovery image of a UEFI drive to new disk.

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I created a backup using Acronis 2016. The original hard drive crashed and I am having issues writing the backup to a new drive. When writing to the bank hard drive, Acronis asks for the location of partitions 1-1, so I choose the new drive, then it asks for a partition for the C: drive, I have backup several machines with partitions and I usually just choose the whole drive, included two partitions and MBR. With this drive after choosing the first partition there isn't another option for the target. 

I then when ahead and created the partition, which I have never had to do, and selected the partitions Acronis took an unusually long time to write the 500 mg backup to the hard disk. When I put it in the machine it doesn't find the drive. Shows up in the Bios, but during boot, its no boot device found. 

The only difference between this machine and some of the others is it says its a UEFI drive. We usually image the drives offline and then install them in the machines.

Thanks for any help.

 

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Brian, welcome to these public User Forums.

This is a well known issue with Acronis software!

The developers decided in their wisdom to match the BIOS boot mode of the computer where any backup is being restored or disk cloned, ignoring the partition scheme used by the original computer that the same was taken from.

The net result is that if you attempt to restore a backup of a Legacy BIOS / MBR drive using a PC booting using UEFI / GPT BIOS boot mode, then that backup will be converted from MBR to GPT.

Acronis bootable rescue media is capable of booting in both Legacy and UEFI boot modes to allow for retention of the correct format when restoring or cloning, assuming that the PC being used can boot in either mode!

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

Ensure that the new hard drive is properly recognized in the BIOS. Verify that the boot order is correctly set, and the drive is selected as the primary boot device.