Rescue Media Failure on Test to See if it Works
I just built a brand new computer and installed my copy of Acronis True Image Home 2012 on it. I did a backup to an external hard drive, which works and it is still there. Of course, I immediately enabled the Acronis Start Up Recovery Manager AND I made a Rescue Media emergency recovery DVD. Everything looked good up to this point. I made a successful backup to my external and my emergency media was successfully made.
I am using Acronis True Image Home 2012 Build 6154, updated to latest.
So then, I put my emergency disk in my ROM drive, reboot and the recovery loader starts. I get the Acronis True Image Home screen with the three choices:
Acronis True Image Home
System Report
Windows
I click on the top choice, Acronis True Image Home, to test and see if I can see my backup on my external drive so I can recover in case of an emergency.
Upon clicking this choice, I again am presented with an Acronis splash screen, and then suddenly, my screen goes blank (black)...I see the DOS cursor blink several times. I hear my ROM drive continue to spin for a while. Nothing comes up! I get a blank screen, no blinking cursor and my ROM drive stops spinning. I sat there for 10 minutes hoping that something would suddenly come up...but nothing!
I have an ASUS motherboard with UEFI BIOS.
I read some knowledge based articles saying Home 2012 does not support UEFI IF IT IS A GPT which it is NOT a GPT drive.
I have used Computer Management Console in Windows and verified that ALL of my drives are NTFS, including my 1 Teribyte boot hard disk...which is:
c:\Primary Contiguous hard disk, 931.51 Gb, system boot, page file, active, crash dump, primary partition.
I also have two other internal hard disks, a 2T and a 500 gig and they also are NTFS.
>>There is no GTP drive on my computer.<<
Here is my hardware configuration information:
Asus P8Z68-V GEN3 motherboard (all drivers are current and updated from the ASUS site)
UEFI BIOS Ver 3101, no boot issues noted on the ASUS site
Intel Core i7 2700K 3.5 Ghz CPU
16 Gigabytes, DDR3 1600 Mhz RAM
Windows 7 Professional 64 bit
I read some knowledge based articles saying Home 2012 does not support UEFI IF IT IS A GPT which it is NOT a GPT drive.
There is no such artcile or you recall it incorrectly.
GPT is not a file system, it's a partitioning scheme, i.e. the entire disk can be GPT type nad contain NTFS partitions. If your system disk has no 200 MB FAT32 partition you are not using UEFI booting anyway, and the problem is hardware incompatibility with linux-based media. In this case you may either used WinPE-based media (Plus Pack required) or troubleshoot the linux-based media booting.
Greetings James,
I believe build #6154 is compatible with your system (see my sig). The latest version/build has support for uefi bios and GPT but, that doesn't apply here.
The behavior you are describing sounds software in nature, but it woud be helpful if you could answer a few questions:
What video are you running? Onboard built into sandybridge connected via VGA, DVI or HDMI or descrete GPU?
Do you have any external devices connected to the PC? Any usb 3.0 devices on those ports. Mouse and keyboard??
*** sorry, was composing this while dev-anon posted... seems we agree.