Bootable disk not working on dell latitude Windows seven
Hello I have just bought acronis 2017 and have made a bootable recovery disk but it will not boot on my Dell latitude computer. Can anyone help please. I've looked at some forums and the technical level required is far beyond my ability. I was led to believe that this product was easy to use.
Hello MVP thank you very much for your response I will try this. As it happens my new computer was exactly the same model as the old one so I was able to simply plug-in a USB drive with the A2017 back up tin file and transfer across that way ( I.e. as though I was restoring back to the original computer)
Obviously I still need to set up a bootable recovery disk. I just don't understand why Acronis do not mention the bios prepping or provide simple instructions like you provide above in their A2017 help manual. When I contacted the robotic Acronis chat helpline all they could do was to refer me to other documentation which had so many acronyms that it seemed almost impossible To understand what one had to do. I have a Dell laptop, a very common computer, why doesn't Acronis hive simple BIOS prepping instructions for the most common computers ? Fortunately I've used Acronis9 for many years so at least had some notion on what was expected. However Joe public will just give up and go find another product.
Oh well to those of my life that I will never get back. I hope someone as a Kronos monitors this message boards/forums.
Oh well there goes to days of my life that I will never get back. I hope someone Acronis monitors this message board/forum.
Once again thank you very much
Hello MVP thank you very much for your response I will try this. As it happens my new computer was exactly the same model as the old one so I was able to simply plug-in a USB drive with the A2017 back up tin file and transfer across that way ( I.e. as though I was restoring back to the original computer)
Obviously I still need to set up a bootable recovery disk. I just don't understand why Acronis do not mention the bios prepping or provide simple instructions like you provide above in their A2017 help manual. When I contacted the robotic Acronis chat helpline all they could do was to refer me to other documentation which had so many acronyms that it seemed almost impossible To understand what one had to do. I have a Dell laptop, a very common computer, why doesn't Acronis hive simple BIOS prepping instructions for the most common computers ? Fortunately I've used Acronis9 for many years so at least had some notion on what was expected. However Joe public will just give up and go find another product.
Oh well to those of my life that I will never get back. I hope someone as a Kronos monitors this message boards/forums.
Oh well there goes to days of my life that I will never get back. I hope someone Acronis monitors this message board/forum.
Once again thank you very much
Hi Peter, best of luck - I'm sure you'll get things working - we are a primarily Dell shop in my office and Acronis has served us well on these systems. Every time there's a new Dell system though, we have to go in and play with the bios settings a little bit since the options keep changing with newer hardware (like how Dell is setting new laptops that use PCIE NVME hard drives in RAID mode by default instead of the AHCI SATA mode were used to seeing with the traditional SATA SSD hard drives).
Can't really speak for the documentaiton provided by Acronis. However, there are a LOT of different motherboards and firmware versions out there that have different settings and/or limitaitons to what they can do and it would be hard for any application to provide exact details for each system. For instance I have an HP DM1Z netbook that is only legacy and has no secure boot, I have an ASUS T200 that is only UEFI and comes with secure boot enabled, I have a custom Gigabyte motherboard desktop that allows everything but came with UEFI and secure boot enabled and took some of my own fiddling to get to work with some other bootable media. Also, a similar ASUS or MSI motherboard will have similar features to my gigabyte board (in functionality), but the menus and settings will vary for the different firmware that comes from those manufacturerse and can change anytime a new firmware update is installed.
Good thing is.. once you have it set and can get it booting and working, you shouldn't have to mess with the bios settings much after that. UEFI has certainly made things a bit more difficult for end-users in the last couple of years since manufacturers are still supporting legacy, but trying to get UEFI as the default on most new systems.
Hello Bobbo
Despite your kind advice. I am still unable to boot from a rescue disk. When I boot the rescue disk I get this message on a black screen "Invalid partition table!" but when I hit the return button Acronis Rescue media boots and I go to a blue page "Acronis Rescue Media" with a 2 choice menu "Acronis Universal Restore (32 -bit)" AND "Continue OS booting".
If I do nothing there is a counter that on reaching zero goes to a black screen which says "starting Acronis loader..." but this appears to fail and just loops back to the previous screen.
If I select "Acronis Universal Restore (32 -bit)" A new window appears "acronis Universal Restore" afterr two versions of this window I have a new window "acronis Universal Restore with these presets
Operating sytem - Windows 7
Automatic Driver Search - Search Removable Media - ON
Mass storage drivers to install anyway Add driver
I now plug in my other usb drive with my back up Acronis tib file and select OK at the bottom (from OK, Reboot, Turn Off).
I tehn have a window that tells me that Applying Universal Restore was successful. I click OK and screens returns to Acronis Universal Restore page as before.
If I hit OK it just loops as above. If I reboot it just turns off with some DOS type message that is too quick too read.
FYI Secure Boot is Disabled.
Raid is ON but when I set it to AHCI all the above still happens.
IN desperation I thought I would try the Windows assisted method you suggested but when I went to the link you provided. I have this message even though I am logged on to Acronis.
Access denied
You are not authorized to access this page.
Any help would be most appreciated. I will send this mail to Acronis Customer Helpdesk too, just in case they can help.
Once again many thanks
Also Just as an aside. I forgot to change the BIOS back to RAID but I can still boot Windows 7 as before. Do I need to have RAID selected??
Hi Peter,
I think there is something wrong with your rescue media, or you built it with the universal restore media builder instead of from within Acronis. You should have an option for 1. True Image by default and it sounds like it's not there. I would suggest opening an administrative command prompt (right click and run as administrator. Then type
diskpart <enter>
list disk <enter>
take note of the disk # that matches your USB recoery drive
select disk X <enter> (change X to the # of the flash drive you noted after runnin "list disk" - make sure you pick the right one!)
clean <enter>
create partition primary <enter>
active <enter>
format fs=fat32 quick label=ATIH17<enter>
exit <enter>
With your newly FAT32 formatted USB flash drive, go into the Acronis GUI and run the media builder from there. Screenshots attached. Then try to boot it in UEFI mode... (restart/reboot and quickly tap F12 and then pick the UEFI entry of your USB drive).
Also Just as an aside. I forgot to change the BIOS back to RAID but I can still boot Windows 7 as before. Do I need to have RAID selected??
AHCI is fine. Are you using an NVME PCIE hard drive or a regular SATA drive? If SATA, leave it as AHCI. However, if using an NVME PCIE hard drive, they are capable of a much higher processing queue depth when set in RAID vs AHCI. But, unless you're doing some super hi-intensive processing (and/or don't have an NVME PCIE drive installed anyway), you'll never know the difference with a single SATA boot drive. If you are using an NVME PCIE hard drive and can switch back to RAID without any boot issues, I'd say switch it back though to take advantage of the NVME PCIE drives full potential. If you're using a standard SATA SSD drive or spinning drive, just leave it along. Windows 7 is not particularly found of switching back and fort and may BSOD unless you prepare it first (from within the working OS) before switching back in the bios.
Can someone could help me?
I have almost the same problem, I have a boot acronis true image version in two pendrives, 4gb and 32gb. It works in all PCs and laptops I tried. But doesn't work on Dell latitude 3450.
I got the following error message:
Invalid Partition Table!
If I set BIOS to Legacy mode, I have a screen with thousand of messagens but it freezes
So I can't do disk images of my Dell Laptop
Hope someone could help me
thanks
Ricardo, welcome to these public User Forums.
Do you have Acronis True Image 2017 installed in Windows on your Dell Latitude computer, and if so what build version is shown on the ATI GUI Account page?
What version of Windows OS do you have?
What type of ATI rescue media is on your 2 USB pendrives?
Finally, how does your Dell Latitude boot into Windows? Is this using UEFI or is it Legacy boot?
If you look in the BIOS, if it shows 'Windows Boot Manager' then it is UEFI, otherwise Legacy.