Acronis Loader Fatal Error; need fix
After a recent restore I get the following message upon booting up my computer. If I hit "enter", the OS boots fine. I notice there is a tiny remnant partition left after I deleted the ASZ, Is that the problem? If so how do I get rid of the partition remnant and this message. A search on the internet gets lots of hits but no solutions.
"Acronis Loader Fatal Error;
boot drive (partition) not found
press <enter> to try to boot your OS."
Best info was that on bootup there is a search for a partition or drive with a boot flag and it finds an Acronis partition flagged as boot but not boot files on it. Also my BCDedit shows this:
Why device "unknown". Shouldn't it read device "boot"??
Windows Boot Manager
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identifier {bootmgr}
device unknown
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {fc56103a-dff6-11dd-83f2-848ea607aecd}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30
resume No
Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (recovered)
recoverysequence {572bcd55-ffa7-11d9-aae0-0007e994107d}
recoveryenabled Yes
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {60d40c0b-a380-11de-a9fe-806e6f6e6963}
I have a very similar problem. After restore I get the following during boot:
"Acronis Loader Fatal Error: boot drive (partition) not found
press <enter> to try to boot your OS."
The only problem is that my OS (XP SP3) does not boot any longer. Booting from the Rescue Disk generates the same message. I'm stuck.
More information on restoring the standard Windows MBR can be found here.
You can also download the Acronis MBR fixing program from the Read Before You Post thread.
The booting partition also needs to be Active.
Oh, I already did the repair from Recovery disc..trouble is that it is an HP Recovery disk and so restores it probably to use F11 to boot to the HP Recovery Partition which has been deleted and. I guess that is part of the problem. Yes, the partition is active.
The BCDedit did change it to "boot" from "unknown" but still have boot up error message.
The Unallocated sliver of a partition does not show up in Vista Computer Management, only when you go to create a SZ within the Acronis 11 software and it shows you the layout of your disks, Here's a screenshot:
http://creegah.com/acronis/acronis11unallocated%20partition.JPG
Have used Acronis for 6 years; have not had one problem UNTIL I upgraded to Acronis 2009 and decided to use the F11 option and SZ...have reverted to Acronis 11 and tried SZ and F11 again and then Try & Decide...now have a disaster on my hands.
Lesson to be learned -only use the basic features of Acronis and avoid Acronis 2009. :)
Jury-rigged the situation by using an old Acronis 2009 disk from my last adventure with that version of Acronis and booting from it I activated the F11 option - got rid of the error message and now have the Acronis F11 at bootup. That tiny partition is still there and it is 260 kb's in size. I presume it contains the F11 bootup files and when you deactivate the F11 feature, it just decides to stay there and hang around forever.
Anyway, I can live with this, I think, but whenever I do a recovery through Acronis I will have to jump through the same hoops to get my mbr working...it used to be so simple to use Acronis True Image - no more.
The Acronis Fatal Error: Boot Drive not found, found its way onto my computer. Acronis True Image has been among my utility tools for at least Seven years. My current version is Home 2009. This is the first time I have had the pleasure of such an annoying and frustrating experience with Acronis.
But, I find the problem was of my own doing. Using a foolish shortcut to regain the drive space taken up by the Acronis Secure Zone, I simply deleted it. By doing so I also caused the deactivation of the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. Eventually I found my way to the tool’s menu. The first item in the pull-down menu is, activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. A few seconds after clicking the activation line, a message appeared to tell me the recovery manager was activated.
After closing the open files and timidly clicking the windows restart, my computer was back to performing like my old friend again.
This is one of the few times I have tried to share a solution with others having the same problem. If my answer was difficult to understand, too wordy, too long, etc., I apologize.