Cannot get the Acronis bootable media on thumb drive to work
Dell 3147 w/Win 10. Am trying the back up and restore method to move from hdd to ssd. Have performed back up to ssd w/ no apparent problems. I make a bootable thumb drive. Install ssd w/back up and try to boot from thumb drive I get a no bootable drive message. I have F2'd and F12'd a 100 times to change to boot order to the thumb drive and get the same message. Bios sees the thumb drive just won't boot from it.


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I used all Acronis. The only thing I did outside of Acronis was work within the bios to manipulate the boot order. Just kept getting the same message, no bootable drive.
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Have you checked the "bios" to make sure that boot options do not have a setting that exclude booting from USB devices? The option may not expressly refer to USB devices, it may be included with 'add-in cards', or 'other devices'.
Ian
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I have the same or a similar problem. I built two rescue media from TI2016, one for the LINUX version, one with MPE. My USB Flash IS an option in the Boot Order. I always boot using "One Time Boot", which means I select the source to boot from manually, and choose UEFI followed by the FLASH identifier.
The ACR/LINUX version boots OK and loads OK.
The WINPE version, though selected, simply gets bypassed. The boot manager goes on and boots into Windows the normal way.
I have a case open with ACRONIS since 10 days now, and they have not yet been able to come up with a solution
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Some flash drives (usually SanDisk) will not work as boot media because they report themselves as fixed media devices rather than removable.
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Dear Enchantech,
I know but that is not the issue. I used the same flash drive and the same UEFI settings with ACR/LINUX rescuue media, Paragon Rescue Media, WIN10 install disk, and WIN10 recovery media. They ALL boot OK. ONLY the nedia created for WINPE/ACR do not (and, by the way, the make was not Sandisk).
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