Often times, you may need to disable secure boot and even if the system is UEFI by default, if there is an option to turn on CSM/legacy mode, that may also be required to boot to 3rd party bootloaders. Getting your bios configured though may take some playing around if it doesn't boot right away. Acronis can boot both Legacy and/or UEFI mode and works on 32 bit and 64bit machines. You don't actually have to complete the recovery, but if you have a spare/extra hard drive, you could pull the original and restore the image to the extra hard drive instead and test booting with it to make sure all is well withotu risking your original hard drive and/or data.Īs far as the bios goes, some computers allow for both UEFI and/or Legacy boot at the same time, one or the other (but only 1 at a time), or only one type at all. Before you run into a situation where you need to recovery, you should test your recovery media now and make sure that 1) it boots up, 2) start a "mock" recovery and make sure you can navigate to the backup file and 3) during the mock recovery, make sure it sees your internal hard drive so that you know you'll be able to restore down the road. The limitation you're referring to is going to be similar to all offline recovery media, as it is dependent upon how your bios is configured.
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