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activating recovery manager f/ windows vista

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I have Acronis Image Home 2009 installed on Windows Vista Home Premium. I was going to activate the startup recovery manager on Acronis, but to activate it it reads that my System disk MBR (master boot record) will be changed. Does anybody know if the MBR that it's refering to is the Recovery Drive included with Vista? And will it interfere with it ?

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Hello John,

Thank you for using [[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ | Acronis True Image]]

Frankly speaking, I am not sure that I understood your question correctly. When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot record (MBR) with its own boot code. But it will not interfere with the recovery partition.

If you mean that there are systems that have the F11 key pre-assigned for a specific task (e.g. to run automated system recovery on your laptop), you may change the default F11 key used to run Acronis Startup Recovery Manager to a different one.

The f11.cfg file stores information on what key is assigned to invoke Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. Editing this file lets you change the default key to any other or even to a key combination.

In Acronis True Image Home 2009 you can find the file at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Acronis\TrueImageHome

Open f11.cfg with any text editor (e.g. Notepad). The section of interest of the file's contents is the following:

[bootmgr]

echo Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager...

default continue

delay 30

bootmenu 389

Change the numerical key code in the bootmenu string (the default 389 code stands for F11):

F Key Code
F1 315
F2 316
F3 317
F4 318
F5 319
F6 320
F7 321
F8 322
F9 323
F10 324
F11 389
F12 390

Change the Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager... prompt in the echo string, so that it shows the key you put in the previous step;

Save the file as f11.cfg;

Reactivate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.

Thank you.

Are there additional codes instead the F1..F12 keys?

I have a logitech small keyboard without the F keys. So something like ESC or CTRL-A would really help

I think ALT-A would be 286

ESC is 385 I think.

I posted earlier today a problem I'm having - that is startup recovery mgr isn't working for me. After I direct ATIH 2012 to set up recovery manager I get the message that the operation was successful, but pressing F11 during the boot sequence gets no result and my computer boots to windows. I did not know about f11.cfg and wonder if I need to edit it:

[start]
echo Starting Acronis True Image...
initrd ramdisk.dat /s
kernel kernel.dat quiet
quiet on
mbrcrcs on
vga vesa

[continue]
sysboot /active

[bootmgr]
echo Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager...
default continue
delay 30
bootmenu 389