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Startup Recovery Manager fails to activate

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When I try to install Startup Recovery Manager it give a error message that it failed to activate. No F11 Option shows up when I boot up.

It is running on a Mac Pro 3.1 running Windows 10 through Boot Camp. The original Apple HD has been removed, so it will boot to Windows directly, which works fine.

I also tried to create a recovery image on a USB Stick. I am able to get into the boot manager through pressing Alt and the USB is showing up as a bootable volume "UEFI Boot" but when I try to boot from it, it won't boot up.

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Forian, welcome to these User Forums.

I do not think that the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (ASRM) is supported in your environment where you do not have a native Windows system.

See KB 60181: Acronis True Image 2018: comparison of feature set in Windows and MacOS which shows that ASRM is only supported in a true Windows environment, and is not supported for the ATI for Mac program version.

I can only recommend that you open a Support Case direct with Acronis Support if the above does not satisfy your question.  I have no direct experience of using Mac computers, so probably do not understand any finer points here with running Windows through the Mac Boot Camp process etc.

On the question of the USB stick, what exactly are you trying to boot here?  From your description, it sounds as if you have made a backup to a USB stick and expect this to be bootable?  If so, that is not correct - any .TIB backup image is purely a containing file holding your backup data.  You can create a bootable Acronis Rescue Media USB stick, but this should be done using the ATI 2018 for Mac application if it is to be used on your Mac Pro computer.

See the ATI 2018 for Mac FAQ document which has the following statement:

What is Acronis bootable media? Do I need it?

 

Acronis bootable media is a USB flash drive that boots on a machine and enables recovery a crashed operating system.

In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

It is a native Windows 10 System, just the hardware is a Mac Pro 3.1. It boots native into Windows and the Apple Partition is physically removed.

The stick is exactly that: An Acronis Rescue Media USB stick I created in Windows 10, ATI 2018 for Windows I am trying to boot from. I can select it in the bootloader, but it will not boot from there.

Florian, it sounds like all should work OK but I don't know how different the hardware is for your Mac Pro computer compared to a standard Windows one?

Does your USB Rescue media stick boot OK on any other computers you have access to?

In reply to by truwrikodrorow…

It's basically all Windows compatible hardware. I am running Windows 10 on it just fine. The stick boots other Windows machines. I also tried a Windows and a Linux version of the boot stick, but they both don't work.

The only thing I can imagine being the problem is the boot loader Apple is using.

I can only suggest either opening a Support Case with Acronis to have them help you investigate this issue, or else (or both) open a new topic in the ATI for Mac Forum to see if there any other folk out there who have tried to do the same with Mac hardware running native Windows?

I managed to create a bootable USB drive by booting into OS X and creating a Recovery Media in Acronis for Mac. But when I boot from it and launch Acronis to recover the Windows Media, it will tell me that Acronis for Mac does not support Files created under Acronis for Windows.

I am running out of options here. Anybody have an idea what else i could try? In a nutshell, i need to boot from a external volume on my Mac Pro 5.1, running ONLY Windows 10 (not through bootcamp) which contains a version of Acronis which is able to recover a disk from a backup made with Acronis True Image 2018.