I have a laptop that has an SSD with Win 8.1 + programs, and an HDD for projects. They are both formatted GPT. When I launch Macrium, for some reason my SSD is now GPT 1 and the second drive is now GPT 2. This is confusing because I'm used to imaging the top line of partitions which is usually my OS. Now that the GPT numbers are reversed, I have to be careful when doing my backups.
Does anyone know how to change this assignment so that the SSD will be GPT1 again?
I know exactly what you mean orlando1974.
I recently installed an SSD to my machine, and in Macrium, the top line is of course ''GPT 1'' but it pertains to my original HDD>which is now purely a storage drive - the annoying thing is, I was able to delete all the original partitions off it that Windows 8.1 had set, aside from some anonymous 128MB ''unformatted partition'' - it's some sort of Windows partition of course. Due to this, Macrium assumed that HDD also needed to be backed up, as it had a System partition on it.
The good news is that in their newest update which was literally only released, the software can ascertain the correct bootable disk (in our case, the SSD) and if you select the task ''Create an image of the partitions required to backup and restore Windows'' it selects GPT disk 2 which is correct again in this scenario.
I however understand that you want to have full control over how you use the software, I don't have an answer to your original question though sorry. I'm sure we'll be careful enough not to be careless when selecting the appropriate backups