True Image 2013 - Cannot boot from Flash Drive - Hewlett-Packard Ultrabooks
I have always preferred backing up my operating system, using an Acronis boot media, rather than Live from within Windows.
Having recently upgraded to Windows 8 (64 bit) on my desktop, purchased True Image 2013, and a new HP Ultra book (Spectre XT 13-2100 series), I have created a recovery media on a Flash Drive!
This works perfectly on my desktop, and is much faster loading than a CD recovery media!
Having proved that the Recovery Media on a Flash Drive works on my desktop, I was a little surprised to discover that it failed to work with my HP Ultrabook - The operating system on this is also Windows 8 (64 bit)!
I get a message:- Selected boot image did not Authenticate. Press "Enter" to continue
I have successfully created Acronis images, live from within Windows (Not yet recovered).
Just wondering whether anyone else has experience this problem.
I think that it is probably something to do with the new UEFI BIOS - Possibly Acronis is not authenticated!
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Thanks guys for your comments; nice to know that you are not alone!
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This is Secure Boot feature that is required for Windows 8 certification. This feature may be disabled in some computers. If you have a True Image
Plus Pack you can use WinPE-based bootable media instead (from CD, not USB stick).
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Thank you dev-anon, for your message.
I am a little concerned, however!
I bought the latest version of Acronis on the understanding that it was fully compatible with all versions of Windows 8; this is stated in the system requirements, given in the following link: - http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/#requirements.
But from what you saying, it looks as if you need to disable Secure Boot, for Acronis to run from a boot media; an option which may not be available in all computers!
The system requirements, specified by Acronis specifies "Windows 8 all Editions", but makes no reference to a necessity to disable Secure Boot!
So it now looks as if I may have two problems:-
(1) The original problem, which I opened this topic with - Cannot boot with an Acronis Boot media, saved on a Flash drive!
(2) The possibility of not being able to restore an Acronis image of my operating system, which I previously created "live" from within Windows.
I have not, yet tried to restore my operating system, created, as (2) above, live, from within Windows.
However, as this process, involves closing down Windows and re-booting, is there a possibility that the Secure Boot (if not disabled) would prohibit Acronis from running on boot up, and thus stop restoration of the operating system!
All very worrying; I have only just got my head around Acronis Image; not sure that I could cope with "True Image
Plus Pack " and this was not stated as a necessity to run Image on Windows 8 !
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At the moment to use the Linux based recovery environment (this includes the Acronsi Start Up Manager and rebooting in Windows to recover an OS system) requires the Secure Boot system to be disabled and in some cases the UEFI ability set to Legacy or CM mode. Once the recovery has taken place these settings need to be returned to their default values.
To my knowledge, no Secure Boot systems were available to 3rd party developers apart from those directly involved with the OE manufacturers. TI 2013 was tested on RTM versions of W8, these versions don't require Secure Boot nor do those purchased at a PC shop.
When TI 2013 was released, there were no OEM systems available, the only people who had W8 would be those who had access to MSDN and Technet versions, therefore this problem hadn't appeared. I assume Acronis hope to address this problem when the next build of 2013 is released. I'm not sure if this is actually a wide spread Linux problem or not.
The Plus Pack is only required if you have GPT disks or wish to make a WinPE based recovery CD/Flash drive. Obviously it is also required for bare motherboard recovery as well.
As far as I know all OEM systems allow for the Secure Boot systems (Tablets excepted) to be disabled, not all but most allow UEFI to be switched to legacy mode.
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Thank you for this info Colin; any thoughts about my second concern!
(2) The possibility of not being able to restore an Acronis image of my operating system, which I previously created "live" from within Windows.
Restoring from within Windows! As this process, involves closing down Windows and re-booting, is there a possibility that the Secure Boot (if not disabled) would prohibit Acronis from running on boot up, and thus stop restoration of the operating system!
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Brian,
Correct, if you start the recovery process from within Windows it will fail due to the fact it reboots into a Linux environment. If the image being recovered does not contain the OS system then there is no problem as data only disks are recovered from within Windows, it is just that the OS can not be running as it locks files and memory locations which prevent proper restore of the OS.
It is recommended to always recover the OS disk/partition from the recovery media so that the OS cannot interfere at any point.
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