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Try&Decide function is greyed out

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Hello,

Using the current version, I cannot activate try&decide.
Under options, I cannot select the partition or disk containing the operating system.

if its of any help, I am using an Intel SSD drive or OS disk.
I have installed Win7 using EFI.

thank you for any help

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Greetings,
First question.... Are you using Non-Stop Back Up? These features cannot be used simultaneously.

What about free space? Where did you plan to save Try & Decide data?

Some reasons why T&D cannot be started:
NSB running - It should suspend when T&D is selected, but might be having an issue
Not enough free space available
Required service or component missing or not running
ATIH not installed properly - perform a repair
UAC conflicted with earlier builds of 2012 - shouldn't apply to you if latest 7119
Might be related to your SSD, but doubtful

http://kb.acronis.com/content/24018 : Try&Decide cannot be used to protect GPT disks
And as OS is installed using EFI, the system disk is GPT.

dev-anon wrote:

http://kb.acronis.com/content/24018 : Try&Decide cannot be used to protect GPT disks
And as OS is installed using EFI, the system disk is GPT.

I think you nailed it, dev-anon.
I m not very familiar with EFI, do you know if there is a way to revert somehow to old style setup and be allowed to use try&decide?
Thank you in advance,

On a side note, what are the benefits of EFI in the first place?

Dev-Anon,
Much thanks. I should have trusted my gut feeling. I did key in on that when I read the post, as I have UEFI capable hardware myself, but believed T&D was supported on basic disks. I see clearly GPT has the limitation you pointed out.

@Yianna,

This is a great article

Thank for the article shadowsports, it did clear some things, but I have one more question:

Try&decide is an important feature for me, is there a recommended way to go back to older style setup? to be able to enable it

Thanks a bunch guys.

If you PC can boot in 'old' BIOS way from MBR disk, you may either
1) switch the BIOS from 'efi' mode to 'bios' and then reinstall windows, repartitioning disk to MBR
or
2) Backup your current installation, switch to bios mode and then restore it using Trueimage bootable media. Version 2012 is able to restore EFI-capable OSes in such way. It may be necessary to reinitialize disk as MBR before restoration.

In addition to what dev-anon stated...

Handy trick:

diskpart can be envoked during windows 7 setup by pressing (SHIFT+F10). You can use it to add/remove partitions, as well as remove the GPT partition structure on the disk if you wish.