Acronis Loader: No Configuration File Present Press <ENTER> To Reboot.
I have gotten this message five times or more in the past few months and frankly, I'm a little pissed. Seeing as I have not messed with the loader's directory AT ALL, I don't see why this message keeps occurring. I know there are other threads for this problem, and I have posted in them here.
I want to know why this keeps happening! Acronis OSS is one of the main reasons I bought DD. Now I'm stuck with disk management software that has been striped of it's features and a boot loader that constantly spazzes out on me. I'm one hiccup away from attempting to get my money back and just using GRUB2!
I had that same issue this morning, and I don't know what triggered it. I had to repair the mbr with my Win7 installation disk, then could boot back successfully into my Win7, started the OOS-selector from there and reinstalled it. It asked if I would like to repair, which I okay-ed.
So now, in addition to my normal boot-options (Win7, Vista and Linux) I find some strange rogue entries in the start screen of OOS, which I don't dare to touch atm, but would like to get rid of.
By the way, I was a bit dismayed when I noticed that my bootable Acronis-CDs would not offer any OOS-repair function. I remember faintly, in one of the previous versions, that I could repair OOS with a bootable media of Acronis. What did I miss here?
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Cheers,
Anestis
Anestis,
What are the rogue entries? Were they added at the time of the repair? If you don't want to delete them, you should be able to hide them. That way, they won't be cluttering up the menu.
You didn't miss finding the OSS CD programs -- they don't exist. This is a major problem to may users (including myself) and we are hoping it will be fixed in the first update to DD 11.
Those entries showed up after repair, yes. They are like "$~Vista english" or so (cannot check at the moment), and in their preferences/files I see that they want to grasp files of my valid OS-es!!
I would like simply to delete them (without deleting the system-files they point to), but I dont dare. Hiding them will help my aesthetical demands, true, but my geek within wants to get rid of them :)
Anestis
When I booted back into my Win7 after repair, I missed some links that I had put on my desktop. Some research via google suggested that there might have been some windows task that cleansed my OS from links that it did not consider essential.
And: I find a fresh oos-selector-link in my root-directory C:\ with today's creation-time. So I guess it must have been created during repair?
So my question here is, could - theoretically - some windows task have fuzzed around with links that are vital to OOS to boot properly? Just an idea here ...
Anestis
The OSS repair shouldn't have deleted any desktop shortcuts.
You can try deleting the rogue OSS menu entries. It should work okay to remove them. Just keep in mind that OSS may redetect them after deletion. I would also recommend that you make a backup copy of the BOOTWIZ.OSS file first (instructions can be found here).
MudCrab, what I meant was: could it be that *before* I had that error the original poster mentioned (OSS not finding configuration files), some windows task could have deleted links/files (for example deleting that oos-selector-link in the root directory) - which then in its turn caused OOS not to find its necessary paths?
It's definately possible something like that could have happened.