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TI 2010 and W8 MBR partitions

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I used TI 2010 to copy an Upgraded (from Windows 7 to Windows 8) Windows 8 partition/disk from a hard disk to an SSD on an older system. It appears to work ok. What am I missing - everything says TI 2010 does not work with W8? Is the TI 2010 problem with a fresh install of W8 that creates a disk formatted as GUID? I have TI 2013 running on a new system that has a fresh install of W8 and it too works but the boot disk is formatted as GUID so I did not even try TI 2010. Am I heading for trouble using TI 2010 on an MBR W8 system? I am slowly warming up to TI 2013 but I'm "old" and am very familiar with the TI 2010 interface and have acquired a high trust level in it's results!

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Ken,

I hear you load and clear.

The old saying "It if isn't broke don't fixit it" comes to mind.

Using 2010 with Windows 8 seems risky, but if you have it installed and have tested restore/recovery to your system from both file and disk/partition backups using Windows and the Rescue Media, and are satisfied that it is working for you, so be it. Certainly this installation of 2010 is not supported by Acronis.
I'm not sure if you could even install 2010 from scratch on a Windows 8 new install even if the disk setup was MBR. That could be a potential problem if you reinstall Windows 8 on this system.

The problems will arise when an update for Windows 8 comes out that breaks 2010, or you need to replace some hardware on this system that the 2010 boot media or the Windows version of the 2010 application itself won't work with.