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Failed to activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

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Planning on replacing my laptop drive with a SSD so making every endeavour to ensure that I have full ability to transfer everything to my new drive.

I am trrying to activate the Startup Recovery Manager but from Windows get the following error (as have many other subscribers):-

"Failed to Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (0x7E)
Tag=0x2DEF7741238DA"

Following advice from a search to try to activate it from the Boot Media Disc I gave that a try, only to get the same error as above (+ a bit more code).

Is it possible to overcome this failure in the product or am I destined to become another complainer?

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Same problem and same error code.

Acronis is the embodiment of complexity and this does not seem to be that complex.

Greetings Both,

rjbsec... No idea what version or build of Acronis you are using??? Nor do we know if your system is OEM, home built or what OS you are running.

JRMich, is it possible that a BIOS setting is keeping the Boot Record of the disk from being modified?

Thanks for the reply. I am using TI 2016 and have looked at bios settings. I had a real problem trying to get the rescue disk to boot and changed settings on my Asus z97a motherboard. Finally, the settings were correct and I can now boot with the rescue disk. Would still like to boot with F11 as this is a secondary method, should the boot disk or optical disk fail.

Not sure what you mean by "keeping the Boot Record of the disk from being modified"? I have really suspected Bios and perhaps you can help clarify for me. TI is a great product but experience is more important than intuition.

Thanks for your interest,

jerry