Understanding acronis startup recovery manager
Hi,
Could someone explain me: when ypou click on "activate startup recovery manager", what does acronis do?
1. In the EFI partition: an acronis folder is being added, with a asrm.efi file
2. An entry is added into the EFI list (bios) to point to this file
But what else? Where is the true image program being stored? All my HDDs are encrypted, so I am really wondering where it is.
Thanks


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Thanks Steve. I figured it out:
c:\acroldr //A Hidden folder.
Hence my next question is: is it supposed to work if C drive is encrypted with say veracrypt?
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Serge, well done on identifying the hidden folder - I don't use ASRM on any of my systems anymore as I didn't like some of the side effects it seemed to cause for me, like exposing hidden partitions.
Please see KB document: 56619: Acronis True Image: Compatibility with BitLocker which is relevant to your question about encrypted drives. The key statement in this KB is: You cannot back up encrypted disks in Acronis bootable media.
ASRM is in essence the same as the standard, linux based Acronis bootable Rescue Media, therefore that statement applies also to ASRM.
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