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Windows 8.1 and Backup with Recovery CD

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I am seeing a lot of sporadic issues with ATI 2014 and Windows 8.1. Will I be safe to do a disk image of my fresh 8.1 installation, using the Recovery CD??? Boot into the CD and run a full disk image.

If it works well with 8, I don't know why it would be an issue with 8.1.

Thoughts?

Thanks

Bob

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Well, I just went ahead and did it and it works, for anyone interested! BTW...one sidenote. To backup 600 GB of Data using 2013 with the recovery CD, it took about three hours. The backup with 2014 takes about six. Double the time????

Any thoughts on that?

Backup time should be similar between 2013 and 2014, assuming all other settings are the same.

Tried it again, today, and much faster. Moved my external drive from the Intel USB 3.0 port to Asmedia. 600GB backup and verify in about 2 hours plus. Interesting that Asmedia much faster...

I don't know what Asmedia is, but I'm glad to hear it's working well for you. :)

Intel motherboards come equipped with anywhere from 4-6 of their own USB 3.0 ports built in. My Asus Sabertooth z77 has six Intel USB ports and 2 Asmedia USB 3.0 ports. Asmedia and a few other companies put extra ports on different motherboard brands. Asmedia, under normal circumstances, is slower...but NOT in this case. My laptop (HM67 chipset) has Renesas USB 3.0 ports. Just different chipsets for USB hubs

Ah, okay. You may find that some of your USB 3.0 ports aren't fully supported at USB 3.0 speeds in the Rescue Media. At least, that seems to be the experience of some users. My USB 3.0 ports are Renesas (formerly Intel) and they run at USB 3.0 speeds in both Windows and the ATI Rescue Media, but it's possible that some newer hardware doesn't yet have full support.

I have a question. First, I have UEFI and GPT partitions on Window 8.1. There is no BIOS. I can't set the boot order as before. I can not find how to "boot" to the DVD. If I can't boot to the recovery disk or flash drive, what will I do when and/or if my PC crashes. It seems to me that it is easy to run Acronis IF you can start the PC. But, that's not really what we have Acronis TI for. We have it for when we get the BSD. What then? How do you get that DVD running?