I have scratched my head a bit here. I have an R7 with an mSATA SSD, and I use that pc for guests and "extra duties". I had another SSD go dead on my main working laptop a Friday night a few weeks ago, and I had to use the one from the R7. So I took a full image with Acronis DriveImage of the SSD when it came out of the R7 and then put the backup (luckily I always have current backups of everything) of my work computer onto the SSD. So the weekend work was saved (yeah, pretty pathetic to be happy to be able to work in the weekens, but sometimes you must...
I got a new, smaller SSD for the R7, no need for more than a 128, and I had a 256. And now I'm having a big problem getting the stuff back in. For some reason Acronis won't put the partitions back in such a way that I can boot from the thing. I tried to install Win 8 from the ground up, and that worked without a hitch, so there's nothing physically wrong. I would like to get it back the way it was, it takes some hours to set up a computer to my liking. Not to mention that I hate a computer that tries to fool me!
So what is the correct setup with all those partitions on an R7? Flags (hidden, unhidden, active) partition type (logical/primary) and sequence? Hope somebody can help me, this is annoying!
Btw forgot to say that I called Acer support here in Norway, and I got a lady who had no idea what a hidden or active partition was... Asked to be sent to a tech support person, but they didn't have any. I've been working with computers, both as a service tech and in other ways for 25 years, and it's the first time I call something designated "tech support" (you had to choose between other types of support and tech support in the phone menu) where they have no tech knowledge in any way! They could as well have a recording: "Have you tried restarting your computer? Have you remembered to plug in the charger?" 