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Can't boot from Recovery CD after W10 Anniversary Update

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I have a Recovery Medium CD built with T2016 Build 6571 for emergency recovery. This worked fine so far - also with Windows 10 Pro x64. Now I have updatet my ThinkPad and DELL Laptops with the latest W10 Anniversary Update and on both systems I can't boot from the CD. Every time I get the message screen attached and I ist's not possible to load the Acronis Loader. Booting from an USB-stick works fine.

Any idea to get the Acronis "offline" running from a CD?

Gerhard

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Gerhard, the message screen would seem to be suggesting that your laptops think you are starting a new upgrade rather than booting from the recovery media?

Message screen wrote:
Apparently you have started to upgrade and performed a startup from the installation media.
If you want to continue the upgrade, remove the media from the PC, and click "Yes".
To instead start a new installation, click on "No".

Have you tried clicking on "No" or "Nein" to see if it continues to boot from the Recovery Media on CD?

Hi Steve,

neither YES or NO  enables booting from CD.

Gerhard

Gerhard, thank you for the update.

Have you checked that there are no further Windows Updates requiring a restart pending on your system?

Please try doing a normal Restart to ensure that Windows Fast Start is not getting involved here and just putting your system into a hybrid sleep / hibernation state.

I haven't seen any other posts reporting recovery media issues with the Windows 10 AU version - I can't try this myself as my systems haven't received the AU yet and I haven't gone looking for it via such as the MS Media Creation tool as am not currently at home.

Hi Steve,

I'm sure, not to have "fast boot" or other features enabled.  Other W10 updates haven't been downloaded or pending.  I just installed the AU and I got the problem on both systems, where booting from CD before AU wasn't an issue.

Do you have dual drive bays - any chance you're accidentally booting to another disc or have the wrong one installed in the tray?  I never use CD's for boot so have not tested for this behavior myself, but don't see how an Acronis CD would cause the OS to think it was about to be upgraded. 

I have created a new boot CD from the ISO-download and this CD works perfectly. The one which doesn’t work has been created with the internal media builder of the application.

Thanks for your support.

Gerhard

Gerhard, thank you for the update on your solution to this problem.  I have no idea why the local media builder version should have given the symptoms that you have seen.  It would be interesting to know if a new local build of the media still gives the same problem?