Default drive after Clone disk
G'day all, after arm wrestling MS for a couple of weeks and losing, Acronis solved my problem in less that an hour from the time I went to Google.
I needed to clone my primary drive on a Windows 7 64-bit system. No problem for Acronis except that it then made the cloned drive the new primary. Into the BIOS and restored everything to its original order.
Is there any way to instruct Acronis to leave the original drive as the primary so that the cloned drive can remain on standby?
Thanks and cheers, Mac
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Many thanks Scott for a very comprehensive answer. I will do exactly as you suggest. If the only task is to restore after a primary crash, that is not a hefty price to pay. My problems started when I created a system image of Windows 7 64-bit. When I attempted to restore the system image to the primary replacement I got this:
"Windows cannot restore a system image to a computer that has different firmware. The system image was created on a computer using EFI and this computer is using BIOS."
These are my hardware components and clearly there is a problem with the boot of the Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 and Windows 7 64-bit. So the system image is saved with an EFI partition but it does not appear to be possible to boot the computer from the MB in UEFI mode unless the MB detects the correct disk in the DVD draw. The default is BIOS. I am working on a work around like snatching the EFI Disk from the draw and replacing with the image disk but no success yet.
Thanks again, Mac
Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5: EVGA GTX580; Intel Core i7 3960X; Corsair 16GB Kit (4x4GB);Intel 250GB SSD; 200w PSU: 1200w PSU: Corsair H100 Cooler: Win 7 64bit:
Performance. Processor 7.8: RAM: 7.9: Grapics 7.9: Gaming Graphics: 7.9 HDD 7.6.
MS Flight Simulator X
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ATI 2012 supports UEFI. Consider:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/24018
and
http://kb.acronis.com/content/5684
Be sure that when you backup/restore, you get all the OS partitions, including the system Reserved partition, which contains the boot manager. I recommend doing a diskmode backup and restore.
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Thanks, Scott, good reading. I have upgraded to Acronis True Image Home 2012 (Family Pack) so I think I have the problem covered now. Very happy, Mac
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