How to creat a MBR/Legacy boot stick with Acronis ISO image?
I noticed that a Acronis boot stick is not booting on my 3 OS system (win7, Linux, Win10) PC.
I can call the BIOS boot menue (F12) and see the stick, but after choosing ist, the system bypasses Acronis and starts the Grub2 Linux OS Boot menu (like it is without the Acronis USB Stick).
How can I creat a Acronis boot stick for MBR/Legacy Systems?


- Log in to post comments

Thanks Steve,
yes, I downloaded the Acronis ISO from my Acronis account and installed it first with Rufus than with Unetbootin. Non of them worked. I see the Stick in the Moot Menü, but it does not start. Rufus showed only the UEFI target, but all of my SSDs and HDDs in the PC are BIOS/Legacy.
I try to avoid unecessary software on my PC, so I did not want to install Acronis on it because I only need the stick for system backups of the 3 OS. No way to get around the Acronis installation?
- Log in to post comments

Klaus, see forum topic: Create a bootable USB device for BIOS with MBR partition - which may help here?
Also topic: USB boot drive on older model laptop "Operation System not found".
The other thought here would be to try burning the ISO image to a CD or DVD and see if this will boot correctly in Legacy mode, or try a different tool such as ISO to USB
- Log in to post comments

Check your machine bios and see if you have both Legacy CSM and UEFI boot enabled, I think you do. If you do then change this option to Legacy CSM boot only. If Rufus and/or Unetbootin have written both type boot files to the medium you're using then that medium should show in the boot menu without the UEFI notation.
If that fails then you need to make sure that when you use these tools to create the medium that you specify that creation will be MBR/Legacy so that the boot files written to the medium wil be written to the medium.
- Log in to post comments