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Restore disk does not boot, blinking cursor

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Hi,

I have made a backup off a Samsung EVO 850 SSD disk using Acronis True Image 2017 Rescue Media. I then created the restore on the same PC with the Acronis True Image 2017 Rescue Media onto an external disk which is a Western Digital Blue. All components of the system remained the same (Motherboard, CPU, RAM, GPU).

The problem is that the system will not boot from the restored HDD.

I have selected the new disk in the BIOS as boot disk. But the display is only showing a black screen with a blinking cursor on a black screen upon boot up.

I made further tests of making partition C to be active. Then I get the message (as it should be) that the boot manager is missing. When I make the system reserved parition active the system does not boot again with no error message. This test tells me that it should not be a missing driver issue for the HDD.

We have made the restore twice. We have connected the restored disk to another PC and from all aspects we checked it looked fine.

I had the unusual situation that I could not install Acronis on the system I made the backup off. It booted fine, but it did not had enough disk space. Alas I am moving to a bigger disk. I created the Acronis Rescue media by installing it on a different PC (with a no name motherboard) and write the DVD there. Then then used that DVD to make the backup of the PC with the AsRock motherboard. Did this cause any problems?

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Please insure that you do not have both the source and the target disks attached to the PC when you attempt to boot the recovered disk.  The new target recovered disk should be installed to the same SATA data port as the original source drive was attached and the orginal drive should be removed from the PC so that boot to the new disk is successful.  You also need to make certain that your boot order in PC bios is correct.  Windows Boot Manager should be first in the boot order list.

Lukas wrote:
I then created the restore on the same PC with the Acronis True Image 2017 Rescue Media onto an external disk which is a Western Digital Blue.

Are you trying to boot from an external disk and is this connected via USB.  If so, then this is not possible due to restrictions imposed by Microsoft (nothing to do with Acronis).

Steve Smith wrote:

Lukas wrote:
I then created the restore on the same PC with the Acronis True Image 2017 Rescue Media onto an external disk which is a Western Digital Blue.

Are you trying to boot from an external disk and is this connected via USB.  If so, then this is not possible due to restrictions imposed by Microsoft (nothing to do with Acronis).

Ditto to that - Micrsosoft limits this as your license is tied to to the motherboard UUID.  Otherwise, you could just restore your OEM licenses to an external USB drive and boot it from any hardware.  This is only "officially" supported and licensed by Microsoft if you have an Enterprise version and build a Windows-2-go hard drive.  There are unofficial tools that can do this as well, but none of them would be properly licensed according to the EULA in the terms you agree to when you originally register the licensed OS to your system.

Dear Enchantech and dear Steve Smith and dear Bobbo_3C0X1, Thank you so much! We unmounted the drive from the USB HDD enclosure, connected it internally to the same SATA port and the system booted immediately without any probnlems. Issues closed. You guys are so cool and a life saver!

Lukas, thanks for the feedback and glad to hear that all is working correctly now.

Glad to hear Lukas, thanks for the feedback!