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Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Try&Decide

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Hey, guys!
Is anyone having the following problems?:
1) Acronis Startup Recovery Manager does not work with GPT partition, nothing appears on the black screen (or what would be on the blue screen of Windows 10). I deleted the partitions and converted GPT > MBR, reinstalled Windows and worked perfectly (it worked before entering the new blue screen boot Windows 10).
2) If the computer restarts with the Try & Decide enabled, no boot screen appears asking what to do, it undoes all operations and does not start together with Windows.

Does anyone know how to solve
Thank you very much

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Rafael, welcome to these User Forums.

ASRM has typically used a Linux Kernel OS in order to launch the offline ATI application, and this may not play nicely with your UEFI BIOS Secure Boot settings.  Turning off Secure Boot may have allowed ASRM to work with your system when it was using GPT.

Personally, I do not like or use ASRM, it has the significant weakness that any fatal or critical disk failure will destroy its ability to work, given it resides on the same disk as your OS.

With ATI 2019 you are better served by creating the new Survival Kit on your external backup drive, then testing that you can successfully boot the computer from this external media, which would then allow you to do both Backup and Recovery actions without any need for ASRM.

Please see forum topic: ATIH 2018 and 2019 TRY AND DECIDE, no blue screen at the restart, doesn't start after a few reboot - where I have been working with user Daniel with mixed results.

Again, I personally do not use TnD and my recent experience working with Daniel in his topic, has only strengthened by view that TnD is not a reliable feature of ATI 2018 / 2019 at this time.

Steve Smith wrote:

Rafael, welcome to these User Forums.

ASRM has typically used a Linux Kernel OS in order to launch the offline ATI application, and this may not play nicely with your UEFI BIOS Secure Boot settings.  Turning off Secure Boot may have allowed ASRM to work with your system when it was using GPT.

Personally, I do not like or use ASRM, it has the significant weakness that any fatal or critical disk failure will destroy its ability to work, given it resides on the same disk as your OS.

With ATI 2019 you are better served by creating the new Survival Kit on your external backup drive, then testing that you can successfully boot the computer from this external media, which would then allow you to do both Backup and Recovery actions without any need for ASRM.

Please see forum topic: ATIH 2018 and 2019 TRY AND DECIDE, no blue screen at the restart, doesn't start after a few reboot - where I have been working with user Daniel with mixed results.

Again, I personally do not use TnD and my recent experience working with Daniel in his topic, has only strengthened by view that TnD is not a reliable feature of ATI 2018 / 2019 at this time.

Thank you very much for the time you made available to help me.
I solved this problem by converting GPT > MBR with the Mini Tool Partition Wizard. I thought Windows would not start, because the backup with Acronis True Image was done in GPT. Thank you very much
I'll use MBR. All the problems cited were solved with the MBR. 

Rafael, thank you for the update / feedback, glad you have a solution that works for you here!

The MBR issue is interesting. During beta testing of both ATI 2018 and ATI 2019 I tested Try&Decide and it work on the main test machine which had UEFI and GPT for the M.2 NVMe ssd boot drive and had no issues. However, the conditions under which I was testing were somewhat different to those that I believe are mentioned earlier in the post. Also tested on old PC that was BIOS/MBR without issue.

Ian