MBR was protected, trying to create a Ventoy USB
Hi Folks. Still clinging to TrueImage 2018 'cause it still works great.
On a new Windows-11 laptop, I tried initialize a USB with a bootable product named Ventoy. (ventoy.net, for the curious.) When I ran it, it wiped the USB, as expected, but then I got this message from Acronis Active Protection (See attached.)
The main message (in case it does not display as I think it should) was:
- An attempt by process <path to ventoy2disk.exe> to modify MBR of your disk was successfully blocked.
I must presume the MBR in question was that of the freshly formatted USB. So now we get to to meat of my question:
Short of temporarily stopping the Active Protection service, is there way to tell Acronis to NOT protect the MBR of a USB drive?
How to cure the resulting bricked USB is another problem, beyond the scope of this forum. But if someone know a method that works, please post it. (Google has found me a gazzillion methods that don't match the dialogs I see under Device Manager.)
Thanks much for help!
-- Jake S.
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Hey Jacob!
Could you please share with us if the issue was resolved after applying the solution properly suggested by Steve?
Thanks in advance!
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This is my third attempt to post an answer to Jose. This forum has some issues!
In any case: Yes, I disabled Acronis Active Protection but I don't remember how. I think it was from the "sprocket" icon for [Settings]. I have not re-enabled it.
That said, yes it allowed me to sup up the Ventoy drive and load 4 or 5 boot images on it. The bricked drives, however, remain hopelessly bricked.
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Jacob Salomon wrote:This is my third attempt to post an answer to Jose. This forum has some issues!
In any case: Yes, I disabled Acronis Active Protection but I don't remember how. I think it was from the "sprocket" icon for [Settings]. I have not re-enabled it.
That said, yes it allowed me to sup up the Ventoy drive and load 4 or 5 boot images on it. The bricked drives, however, remain hopelessly bricked.
Hi Jacob. Thanks for the updates, we really appreciate it.
Cheers!
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