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Try & Decide my favorite software

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Hi guys,

Frist I'm sorry if there's already some post about this. Didn't find the search function on site particularly good. For one I could not sort on date or relevance.

Okey, Try & Decide is my favorite software. I've been using it alot sense my Windows reinstall, first time sense I upgraded years ago.

Here's the "problem"

When using Try & Decide the boot order is changed in bios but never changed back. AND because I also use Acronis Survival Kit installed on my External HDD which is contacted atm. Whenever I use T&D and decline changes (maybe if I allow too) I'm booted in to Acronis recovery thingy because the boot device (order) has changed from Win10 on my SSD to the external device.

To workaround this I just quit the recovery and change the boot order. But as you can imagine that's quite annoying after a while so please correct this, thnx.

Oh, and for god sake, add Swedish keyboard layout in the recovery environment. Took me awhile to find the keys when I had to use it to delete an entry in BCDedit.

Nextup, Topic about save or autofit columns in window when navigating backup

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My understanding is the bios determines the boot order. Each bios can behave a bit differently though. Basically, each time try-and- decide is invoked, the partition scheme on the disk is modified and hence the disk drive identifier is changed. Because of this, the bios then has to decide the boot order (since the disk is not seen as the exact same one anymore). It may  keep the drive as the primary or something else by default (usually a DVD drive) is selected instead if an exact match for the previous bios configuration is not found.

I don't personally use try-and-decide based on bad experiences from other users with earlier versions of ATI resulting in unbootable systems caused by the Windows bootloader being modified by the temporary ATI Linux environment. Is seems like 2019 had much less issue with this, but I still am not willng to take the risk and instead use VMs or just a backup and restore if needed to revert. Glad the overall reliability is working for you though!

Make sure you send direct feedback to Acronis developers in the ATI application too for the keyboard optione! That's one of the best ways to send them feedback and/or suggestions.

I did some limited testing with one of the beta builds for ATI 2019 and encountered no problems. I do not use it at all for day to day purposes. Given the issues mentioned in prior post, I would make sure I have a working recovery USB stick and do a backup before playing with try and decide.

Ian

I tested Try&Decide with several ATI versions including the latest "2020, Build 25700."

It always resulted in a "missing BootMgr" and I had to use a stick to restore the last backuup - which takes several hours every time.

My mainboard ASUSTeK Modell Z170-A (LGA1151), Version Rev 1.xx has an UEFI Bios (s.Annex)  and this obviously is being changed by a LINUX action.

I had several contacts with friendly ACRONIS service teams but no solution - now after reading posts in this community I understand I'm not allone !

I'm not going to use it again !

I have managed to get it to work - different hardware to you, Aorus GA-AX370-Gaming 5 with Ryzen 1700X CPU. This was during beta testing for ATI 2019 and ATI 2020. Are you using a SATA or SATA Express drive - I was using a M.2 NVMe SSD.

My recollection is that recent builds of Windows 10 include a Sandbox which can be used for testing. Could still be in development but worth considering. Yes, just did a quick seacrh and there are multiple references to it on the web.

Ian