recover many OS
I use Acronis True Image 2016.
On my PC I installed 3 Operating Systems with Windows 10.
I created a USB-Rescue Media. I cannot use it at all.
How can I proceed to recover the images??
Thanks
Hello Steve,
i try to explain.
My PC has 3 OS win 10.
I can change to the OSes with MS Manager.
The Acronis Image 2016 is installed on OS1 (SSD).
I created a USB-Rescue Media.
Now I start the PC, but I don't sea the Menu of Rescue. So I can't recover any OS.
I don't want to clone disks.
You want more details I'll sent you.
Radu,
If the media is not being detected to boot from, please check a few things in the motherboard bios:
1) make sure secure boot is DISABLED (it must be off)
2) The media can be both UEFI and/or Legacy (MBR). You want to make sure the media is booting in the same manner your OS was installed. The best way to verify this, is to use your bios "one time boot menu / boot override menu".... EXAMPLE
3) Can you try the media on another system to see if it boots on it as well?
4) How did you create the boot media (directly in Acronis or first to .iso and then use a third party tool to convert the .iso to USB)?
ATIH media is UEFI and Legacy and supports 32 and 64 bit machines. It is capable of booting on every type of machine I have ever tried it on (and that is a lot of them), as long as the media being used is good and properly created. You may even want to try a different USB stick to test and I'd also suggest burning a CD/DVD and test it instead of the USB drive to see the computer can see it.
Last, you can also try creating the media using the universal restore media builder. It can create the same media, although, in a slightly different manner. I actually prefer the univeral restore media builder sometimes as you can pick the applications in the media you want to include, whereas the default one, gives you no choice.
Hello Radu,
Have you upgraded to the latest ATIH 2016 Build 6559, if not, I would recommend doing so as the support for drives in the default Acronis Rescue Media has been enhanced and may help with this problem.
If the problem relates to booting the USB Rescue Media, then you need to ensure that you do so in the same way that your Windows OS boots, i.e. if Windows boots using UEFI, then the USB media must boot the same way.
See http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/29504-bios-mode-see-if-windows-boot-uefi-legacy-mode.html for information on how to check your OS boot mode.
If the above does not help, please try to capture some screen shots showing the steps you are taking and what you see.
Hello Steave,
Hello Bobbo,
My PC is brand new(Medion, Lenova) and has no BIOS but UEFI.
Then I created the boots media's: rescue media and universal restore direct on ATI2016 again.
I tested the Sticks and DVDs, all was perfect.
Only one exception for universal restore: I can't leave the program.
FINALLY THE PROBLEM WAS, MEIN STICK WAS DEFECT.
Thanks for your help.
Hello Radu, thank you for giving feedback - you are not the first person to tell us about defective memory sticks! Glad that you have an answer to this problem.
Glad to hear it! I think this is more common than most would believe. Not all media is created equal, and even suppodedly known and trusted brands can have a bad batch, or perhaps bad formatting with another tool or product has changed the partition scheme at some point in time.
As for the unable to leave UR, if UR has been applied and says successful adn you quit but it does not close, you are safe to reboot the machine physically - it will not impact your OS or internal drives. Acronis is loaded into a virtual Ramdisk (running from memory) once the bootable media is launched so there's nothing you can damage by hard powering it off (if no current operations are in progress like an ongoing backup or restore to another disk).