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Starting Acronis Loader...Acronis Loader fatal error: boot drive partition not found

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When attempting to perform a Clone in Windows and when booting to the Acronis Bootable Media CD. I get the following error:

"Starting Acronis loader...Acronis Loader fatal error: boot drive partition not found"

I have attempted to deactivate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager - no change same error.

Any suggestions would be welcomed.

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Have you ever successfully booted from the ATI bootable Rescue Media on that PC?

No, in fact this was the first time I have attempted to boot to the recovery CD on this computer.

Is this a UEFI computer which requires a change in the Bios before booting and selecting change to legacy mode?

If yes, after finsihing with the CD, don't forget tochange back to the original boot setting s.

It is possible to restore only the mbr from one of your backups but I would definietely check the source disk for disk errors as well.

It is also possible that the CD Linux kernel will not work on your system and you may need to create a WinPE disk which is based on Windows drivers.

I believe I would also create a new Recovery CD just in case this one did not burn well.

I ran into this with my TI 10, on 2 Win 7 Dell Inspirons, using the Emergency Boot CD.
"Starting Acronis loader...Acronis Loader fatal error: boot drive partition not found"
Which was a bit baffling, as I thought an Emergency Boot CD would boot!
(yes I am aware TI 10 is outdated.)

Solution:

Go into the BIOS setup for the 'Advanced Chipset Features', and change the SATA mode from AHCI to ATA.
The PC's would then boot from the Acronis Emergency Boot CD.

Gotcha memo:
If your Windows 7 was installed/built for one setting, you will have to return to that setting when done using the Acronis EBD.
If you alter that setting in BIOS to get the EBD to 'boot' , reverse that setting to boot from Windows.

There are Registry changes one can make to alter what Win 7 expects at boot time, but thats beyond the scope of this post.