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Re: Running Acronis on MacBook Pro w/Windows



Eddy,

It's more complicated than that, but please bear in mind that this is a mailing list for questions and discussion regarding the Darwin kernel, not Windows applications. You would be best off raising the issue with Acronis, or any of their competitors.

 = Mike

On May 3, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Eddy Quicksall wrote:

Duane, Intel Macs do not use the legacy Master Boot Record, they use the
GUID Parition Table scheme. EFI uses GPT where BIOS uses a Master Boot
Record (MBR).


Acronis's problem is that it does not support the GUID partition format.

What I'm wanting to know is if there is a way to over come the Acronis
shortcomings.

Eddy

-----Original Message-----
From: Duane Murphy [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 1:25 PM
To: Eddy Quicksall; email@hidden
Subject: Re: Running Acronis on MacBook Pro w/Windows

--- At Sat, 3 May 2008 08:20:03 -0400, Eddy Quicksall wrote:

The Acronis backup program will not run on a MacBook Pro which is
running Windows. I believe the problem is due to the fact that Bootcamp
does not use the legacy Master Boot Record.

That would be an incorrect supposition. Boot Camp works specifically because the MBR is used to boot into Windows.

...Duane


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References: 
 >Running Acronis on MacBook Pro w/Windows (From: "Eddy Quicksall" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Running Acronis on MacBook Pro w/Windows (From: "Duane Murphy" <email@hidden>)
 >RE: Running Acronis on MacBook Pro w/Windows (From: "Eddy Quicksall" <email@hidden>)



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