ATI 2014 Bootable Media
I tried to boot my laptop from a cd that has the bootable media. When I booted the laptop, the display showed that itwas loading Acronis from the cd/dvd drive. After a few seconds, a message appeared saying it could not load. Do I need to install Acronis on my hard drive first in order for it to recognize the bootable media?


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I created a bootable media from my installed Acronis ATI 2016. It works fine when using that laptop. I just bought a new laptop and wanted to restore some files from backedup archive located on an external HDD. So, I haven't installed ATI on it yet. I was trying to boot the new laptop using the bootable media I created from my old laptop. Do I need to buy a new license for my new laptop in order for the bootable media to run?
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The bootable media can be used without purchasing a new license as the action of creating that media on a licensed system copies the necessary license information to that media. If you want to use the installed ATIH product on your new laptop then you do need a license to do so - you could either purchase an additional license or could move you license from your old laptop to the new one.
Licensing is essentially a matter of trust - using it as you have indicated above is fine for an occasional use. If you are intending to use the media to perform all your backups on that second laptop then you should purchase a license for that computer.
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On the new laptop you may have to check some of the bios settings to boot the media. Often times, you must disable secure boot and/or enable csm mode which is disabled by default on UEFI systems. Or, you can try your one time boot menu or boot override menu in the bios. Once you get the bios configured, your new laptop should be able to boot there recovery media.
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Thanks for your help. I finally got my laptop to boot from the bootable media from the cd/dvd drive. I had to play around with the BIOS settings. I noticed that if I don't have the cd in the cd/dvd drive when booting to the BIOS, the cd/dvd drive will not appear as an option in the bootable device list. Also, even after saving the new changes to the BIOS, after rebooting and removing the cd fromthe drive and then going back into the BIOS, the cd/dvd drive disappears as an option from the bootable device list. Now I real more comfortable using my new laptopand will buy a new ATI license so I can install the app on my HDD so I can use the other features.
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Yeah, it's a bit of a crap shoot as motherboards (and ultimately the firmware) vary so much from system to system. The important thing is you know how now.
I am finding my Gigabyte motherboard to be a total PITA whenever I remove the PCIE NVME hard drive to test a restore to a reguar SATA SSD. Other than this behavior, it operates like I would expect it to, but it took me hours of trouble shooting to determine that just pulling the PCIE NVME drive causes my motherboard to "freak out" (it has to hardware reset itself automatially 3 times before it then works like it's supposed to... and what really through me off was that adding the PCIE NVME drive works just fine!)
But enough about me :)
At some point, you might want to create a bootable USB flash drive (must be a flash drive and not an external hard drive) with the media builder in Acronis. Typcially, the USB drives will boot Acronis faster, are less likely to fail (no scratching, etc) and might be more convenient to have readily available. I stopped using CD's/DVD's for boot media long ago as I got tired of coasters and found that I could just update my USB drives when new versions came out.
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