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Cannot get the Acronis bootable media on thumb drive to work

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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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What method did you use to make the thumb drive? It is best to use the applications Media Builder tool to do this. Using other tools /methods often do not work.

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.

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

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

Some flash drives (usually SanDisk) will not work as boot media because they report themselves as fixed media devices rather than removable.

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).