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Can't boot any of 4 disks..!!!

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I sure hope somebody can help.

Acronis 2020 (wish I had never heard of it)

Windows 7 Ultimate 1TB hd

I cannot create a bootable hard drive after restoring a tibx backup. The following problems have occurred with different hard drives and backups.

If I go into the bios I see the small window that says “select boot device” If I select “windows boot manager” Selecting this send me directly into the EFI shell.

However none of the EFI or UEFI commands work. For instance “Boot” returns “boot is not recognized as an internal or external command” Same result with the other shell commands I got from EFI shell command references

Available boot options shown:
UEFI: built in EFI shell (Shown twice.)
Windows boot manager
Sata: WDC WD 30EFRX…….. My secondary data HD
Sata: WDC WD 1003FZEX…….. My Primary supposedly bootable HD
Sata:ASUS DRW-24B1st … My dvd drive
And
"Enter setup: "
Which kicks me into the bios settings screen. There the boot options gives me one slightly different option… “[UEFI: windows boot manager]…. And does NOT show me the Sata: WDC WD 1003FZEX…….. My Primary supposedly bootable HD
Selecting … “[UEFI: windows boot manager] simply sends into the EFI Shell again.

Selecting the primary; hard drive directly – when I see it – gives me “MBR error 1” Press any key….
NONE of this ever happened with TI 2018.

The swear jar is overflowing.

I had 2 perfectly bootable hard drives sitting on the shelf. Now when I go to boot from them, neither one will boot. Absolutely nothing was done to them between the time I tested them (and ran a couple of days on one) and when I put them in one after another and nether would boot. They just kept giving me various error as described above.

Does TI2020 mess with the bios?

Chat support was totally worthless. Kept telling me the most basic things. "Go into bios and set the boot order."

I sure hope somebody can help.

I am so flumoxed.

Thanks,

Anthony

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Anthony, as far as I am aware, no version of ATI makes changes to the BIOS settings when recovering drives - these have to be set correctly by the user.

The best advice that I can offer here is to disconnect all drives other than you OS boot drive, then if this is a UEFI boot system, check in the BIOS that you see 'Windows Boot Manager' shown as the boot option.

If your list of boot options copied below that you wrote above is correct in terms of the order shown:

Available boot options shown:
UEFI: built in EFI shell (Shown twice.)
Windows boot manager
Sata: WDC WD 30EFRX…….. My secondary data HD
Sata: WDC WD 1003FZEX…….. My Primary supposedly bootable HD
Sata:ASUS DRW-24B1st … My dvd drive

Then look at the the order of the drives themselves in the BIOS and ensure that your primary drive is first in the list, so that if you have an EFI partition on both the WD drives, that you are seeing the Windows Boot Manager from the correct drive.  Ideally your boot drive should be connected to port 0 of the SATA controller on the motherboard.