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Can't boot to USB windows 8 with build 6514

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It just bypasses the USB drive even though I created bootable media in True Image 2013. It is a Lenovo Twist new from the store. I have made no changes to Bios and inclined to do so. The product should work properly

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Did you disable Secure Boot? I believe that is necessary, or your system will prevent you from booting to any bootable flash drive, not specifically True Image.

You migth also want to check if USB boot is first or second in boot order.

Or you might have to press F12 at start to get the boot-menue ( UEFI)

jumboloan wrote:

I'm not supposed to have to change the BIOS in build 6514

The latest build allows the Rescue Media to work on systems that could not use the previous build. However, if your PC blocks boot from USB, then there's nothing that any bootable app can do about that.

Are you able to boot from any (non-Acronis) bootable app from USB flash drive? If not, then you must adjust settings on your PC, and this is not a True Image issue.

According to Sticky: Windows 8 Secure Boot Machines with Acronis Loader Hotfix, the issue has been fixed so it will work with the BIOS. However I am not experiencing the fix with the latest build. If Acronis requires me to change my BIOS they are not stating this anywhere and I would say that the BIOS is set a certain way for good reason.

jumboloan wrote:

I'm not supposed to have to change the BIOS in build 6514

6514 is not the latest Rescue Media build.

Try newly downloading the Rescue Media ISO from your Acronis.com account. The web site lists it as the same build number as previously, but is actually a newer version build 6528.

And, you still did not answer my question:
Are you able to boot from any (non-Acronis) bootable app from USB flash drive? If not, then you must adjust settings on your PC, and this is not a True Image issue. You must set USB boot as higher priority than HD.

I don't know how to make another HDD from USB and not interested in all of these experiments. The product should be working. Also it does boot up if I put the flash drive in the other USB port. But then the problem is that neither the keyboard, track pad or pointer stick is unresponsive. So I have a program just sitting there with no way to select anything.

I don't know to download an ISO and I'm not going to invest a lot of time in another experiment. THis is a fresh Lenovo Twist straight out of the box from Office Depot.

6514 is what I downloaded from Acronis when I got the product a week ago. If there is a later build it is to updating.

Jumboloan,

Build 6514 is the latest build available for the Windows install, however, Acronis have released a 'hot fix' version of the recovery environment which is build 6528. This recovery CD can be downloaded from your account (under the Media tab) as an ISO which you then burn to a CD, or if you have a USB stick that is Grub or similar enabled copy the ISO straight on to a stick.

Your problem may be solved if you use this version of the recovery environment to boot your system. Note, starting a recovery of your OS drive from wihtin Windows won't work as this will be using build 6514 components, nor will using the Acronis Recovery Manager if you have enabled that.

Hopefully at some date in the future Acronsi will have a new build of the Windows based True Image. I suspect they intend to roll up a number of fixes into that build.