Make Bootable 'greyed out' on ATI Home 12
Ive used ATI Home 2012 for over 3 years now and I have made dozens of disk backups for my OS but have only had a couple of occasions when I actually needed it to restore and it has always worked fine.
Recently I had a 'system drive' failure and when I tried to restore it, none of the recent backups(3 of them) would boot. I had not changed any of the backup settings for the 'system' backup but after starting from scratch and reinstalling the OS/settings, I went to make a new backup and noticed that the 'make bootable' option was greyed out and I suspect that is why there was a problem with the other backups.
That being said I was unable to get the 'make bootable' option to where I could check it........ am I missing something?
Any help is appreciated
Chas
Are you using removable media (DVD)? The "make this media bootable" option becomes available only when using removable media, which I never do (these days, images could span 10 or more DVDs). Much easier and faster to create the images to a different partition, or better, a different HD altogether. Those images don't need to be bootable. You restore those images using either ATIH in windows (if the system will boot) or using the Acronis bootable Rescue cd (created in ATIH windows using the media builder).
You boot to the rescue cd, choose recover, browse to the HD location where your image (.tib) is stored.
If you created an image on your HD then burned it to DVD or any other medium, it would not boot.
Andros,
Thank you for your reply........ I dont exactly remember when or how it happened but it seems that most of my 'restore' problems have been caused by having the bootable option checked when the backup was made. This is not something that I remember 'choosing' but I will double check all my backups in the future.
Thanks,
C
Hi Chas,
when you say "none of the recent backups(3 of them) would boot", do you mean that after you successfully restored the image, your system would not boot? Or do you mean that you attempted to boot from a DVD that would not boot?
Hi Chas,
when you say "none of the recent backups(3 of them) would boot", do you mean that after you successfully restored the image, your system would not boot? Or do you mean that you attempted to boot from a DVD that would not boot?
Hi Andros,
Sorry for the confusion. Yes the restore was completed but would not boot. I am not booting from a DVD. I think the problem is the double boot records that were created on two separate drives(because the 'make bootable' option was mistakenly checked). I dont know if you noticed my other post 'OS wont boot' but I suspect the problem might have been created when I reinstalled windows and somehow a 2nd drive was created as Boot. I plan on trying to fix the boot record on the system drive by running the repair disk w/command- bootrec /fixboot. Ill let you know if that fixes the problem. Thanks
Yes, the 'OS wont boot' post provides a bit more detail (this has nothing to do with the 'make bootable option' in ATI). You have a System Reserved partition. Windows creates this partition under certain conditions. If the SR partition is present, windows will not boot without it. You can read more about it here:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/gg441289.aspx
You may also want to google the term System Reserved partition to get more information. As ftrpilot says in the other thread, you may do best imaging in disk mode to let ATI handle the partion scheme.
In order to make your system bootable again, a fairly straight-forward way is to use a System Repair CD (created within windows, downloaded or boot from your windows install cd). Here's a simple explanation:
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/231133-recover-windows-7-…
As the post states, you may have to run the repair multiple times. Read the entire thread.
In order to make your system bootable again, a fairly straight-forward way is to use a System Repair CD (created within windows, downloaded or boot from your windows install cd). Here's a simple explanation:
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/231133-recover-windows-7-…
As the post states, you may have to run the repair multiple times. Read the entire thread.
Andros,
Thanks for the info...I was unaware of the capabilities of the System Repair CD. I have bookmarked the sevenforums for future reference.
FtrPilot
Yes, it's got a lot of good info and tutorials. There are also linsk across the top of the page(s) that have links to the Eight forum & ten forum. The anandtech.com forums are pretty good also.
Thanks to both of you for your help and links. I use the sevenforums alot. There is a lot of good info there and I think I will be able to figure it out with the advice and info that you both offered.
I feel the problem was created(inadvertently) when I reinstalled Windows and did not notice that Windows had put the boot on a separate drive and the ATI backups made after that depended on that setup. My mistake, but this required Acronis to use the multiple partition backup, which is NOT the way I had always done it previously without problem.
I keep some older(2mo) 'disk' backups that I am confident will work and I dont think I will lose much data because I keep all my 'non-OS' data on other drives. Things are working okay now but I do want to put the boot on the same drive as the OS but I want to wait until I have more time to read the provided links and fool with it because my plate is pretty full right now.
Thanks again for the help,
C