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Simple Way To Get Rid Of "Non system disc, press any key"? I Can't Find It

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So my new Crucial SSD came today with the "complimentary" Acronis cloner. I had to use a rescue usb to start Acronis because it would not restart with windows as instructed. Just Non Systetm Disk, Press Any Key" EVERY time I reboot. I have seen most of the solutions but they are not working. Is there a Acronis Clean Out tool or something for this common problem? Windows Acer Netbook Windows 7

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jrwc - just curious abou the rescue usb not working - do you have secure boot enabled?  If so, it will need to be disabled.  Also, depending on your machine, you may need to try your boot overrided\one time boot key after reboot and see if the USB showes up twice - once as UEFI, and once as not UEFI (legacy).  Try the UEFI mode as I suspect it may be defaulting to legacy mode, but if your system is set to UEFI boot it will fail.

As for cleanup, there is an Acronis cleanup tool, but I suspect it won't work for the OEM version that came with the drive.  You can try it though and see how it goes.  Check in my singature for the link with instructions and the download. 

Thanks for your  reply. The USB boot did work but the non system disk continued to appear at boot but I have since installed an SSD and will save the original hdd and only use it in case of ssd failure or transfer in the future. 

Thanks for the Acronis clean tool that I may have to use in the future.

I just noticed that you're using an Acer Netbook as well.  Is this by chance a 32-bit only system?  If so, I'd be curious if the version of Acronis that came with the Crucial SSD is WnPE (see if you have a "sources" directory on the boot drive and boot.wim inside of it).  If the system is 32-bit only and you are using WinPE, as of Acronis 2015 and later, the WinPE is only 64-bit and not capable of booting on a 32-bit only system. Hopefully they bring 32-bit back to Acronis True Image Home as even the default Linux bootable media (at least for the paid versions), don't always have the necessary drivers to find the hard drives and/or NICs on some systems either. 

I used the Acronis Rescue on USB and booted from that. Not sure if that is PE. I believe I used the 2014 version. Will this rescue USB work on other PCs? Yes, I have the 32 bit version of Win 7.

Thanks again.

Yes, the USB should work on most systems (at least for booting to it - driver support may be another issue though).  

The default bootable recovery media created by Acronis is Linux based so yours is probably not WinPE as you would have had to purposefully created the WinPE version after installing the Windows ADK (see my signature for direct Microsoft downloads if interested at all).  

I can't remeber if 2014 supported MBR/Legacy/BIOS and UEFI systems or not though.  If not, both bios types are definitely supported in 2015 and 2016.  

The downside to the default Linux bootable recovery media is that new systems sometimes require drivers that are not yet available for Linux (for instance newer PCIE NVME hard drives like the Samsung 950 Pro, as well as a few of the newer INTEL nics).  In those cases, WinPE versions of Acronis are the work-a-round/solution until newer Linux drivers are made available in the default bootable media.  

Generally, the newer the version of Acronis you have available to create your bootable recovery media, the more likely you are to have better driver support with your offline bootable recovery media for different types of systems.  Tthis months update to Acronis 2016 (hoping one comes out, but it's about the right time based on previous releases) should hopefully bring driver support for the Samsung 950's but we're still waiting to see it and won't know until we get to try it out.