UEFI And Macrium Reflect vs Acroins

mick wrote:
On 22/12/2014 11:01:50, "...winston?" wrote:
mick wrote:

If you want to do a recovery CD which works for certain Win 8 64bit
machines you may have to purchase the Premium edition like I did. The
normal Acronis True Image Home just would not detect the hard drive
after making the recovery CD. Fourteen emails backwards and forwards to
Acronis support could not resolve the problem (February this year).
There is also a lot of info about it if you search:
acronis boot disk cannot find hard drive

Not True for ATI 13, 14, and 15. Have used each version to Image and
Restore Windows 7.0, 8.0 and 8.1 (all Windows Pro versions and 64 bit)
via installed program UI and also with Acronis Boot Media (created by
Acronis Program on CD and bootable USB or download of iso and creation
of CD boot media.
- my Win7 and Win8x systems are both 64 bit

I don't waste my time writing things that are not true, especially
having spent hours trying to resolve the issue using Acronis True Image
Home 2014 and Acronis support services. You were lucky that everything
worked for you, but if you search the internet or go to the Acronis
Forums you will find it is a common problem if you have to use the WinPE
ISO builder to create a bootable recovery disk.
Here is the last email of 14 from Acronis support on the issue:
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Hello Mick,

Thank you for your responses.

With reference to your previous email, it seems like Linux bootable
medias are missing drivers for your hard drive. Therefore, WinPE
bootable media is able to find your hard drive.

Mick; unfortunately, we do not have WinPE ISO builder in our
standard/upgrade version. It is only available in the Premium edition.

Fore more information, you may refer to the below articles:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/44344

It would still be untrue based on your original statement which lacked
any reference whatsoever regarding the need to use WinPE to create a
bootable recovery disk and what 'certain' W64bit machines were involved
in your issue.

Bottom line - ATI 13-14-15 works fine creating bootable media (program
UI or account download) on 'certain Win8 x64 machines' without the need
for WinPE.


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....winston
msft mvp consumer apps