1 of 4 machines now not auto-booting
I have had ATI 2019 installed on 4 machines for about 2 weeks. Everything was working fine. Yesterday, my primary desktop machine stopped booting and displayed the following on a black screen:
Starting x64 UEFI loader (v.1.1.151)....
Select an item using keyboard:
1. Acronis True Image (64 bit)
2. Acronis System Report (64 bit)
c. Continue booting
I of course pressed C. Nothing happened. I pressed C a second time and the machine completed it normal bootup.
The same thing happened this morning.
What has happened to my normal auto boot up? Why is any action required on my part to get actually boot the machine? How do I fix it?
Thanks.


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Steve,
There is no disc in the disc drive tray and there are no USB sticks in the any of the various USB inputs. I reformatted by recovery USBs from ATI 2017 when I updated to ATI 2019. I created the recovery functionality in ATI 2019 using the new feature offered that creates a partition on the backup drive itself.
Everything was working fine until yesterday. Therefore I think the problem lies elsewhere in ATI 2019.
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I created the recovery functionality in ATI 2019 using the new feature offered that creates a partition on the backup drive itself.
Do you still have the backup drive connected with the Survival Kit on it?
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The backup drive stays connected all the time so it can perform unattended backups daily. It has been that way since I started using ATI several years ago. When I performed the update to ATI2019 I selected the Survival Kit option for the backup. So yes, the backup drive with survival kit on it is connected all the time.
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Very simple test here: Disconnect your backup drive and test restarting the computer and it will come up normally. The backup drive now has a bootable FAT32 2GB partition which your computer is booting from ahead of your Windows OS drive. You will need to go into the BIOS Boot settings and set the boot priority to allow your Windows drive to boot first - for UEFI systems this should be Windows Boot Manager else for Legacy systems, it will be the physical drive.
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Steve,
I actually did something close to what you said when I restarted my machine this morning before reading your suggestion. The boot priority had been changed, so I reset to my preferred order and everything is working fine, specifically the computer now boots to completion without human input. What I don't understand is why it worked fine for several days after updating to ATI2019 and then suddenly the boot order changed. But it is working so thank you for your assistance, which pushed my mind to consider a boot priority problem.
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