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Unable to boot into Windows 7 after restart

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Hello. I am a new Acronis user and did a reinstall of Windows 7 on my computer a few days ago. I have Acronis TrueImage 2013 (w/ Plus Pack) installed. JJust a few minutes ago I needed to reboot my computer after installing Windows Updates. However, the OS will no longer boot. A message appears that says "Loading Acronis UEFI Loader... Press F11 for Startup Recovery Manager" or something to that effect. When I let this prompt time-out, a message comes back saying "Reboot and select proper boot device. Or insert boot media and press a key". Pressing a key just displays the message over and over. Reboot does not help. If I press F11 at the prompt, the Acronis logo displays and says "Loading..." but just hangs.

I have 2 disk drives installed in the computer, a boot drive (SSD with Windows 7/Acronis installed) and a data drive (regular hard drive with files on it). Both drives are using GPT format and a UEFI motherboard/OS install.

Please help ASAP as I cannot use my computer!

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Gil,

Is this the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager or one provide by either Microsoft or your PC maker?

Had you enabled the Acronis Recovery Manager?

This problem only happened after you updated Windows? When you say reinstall, was this a reinstall from a Windows install media or a recovery of an image of your system?

First thing to try is to boot from your Acronis CD and select 'deactivate Acronis Recovery Manager', if it is the recovery manager that is causing your error message, then reboot and see what happens.

It might be something has somehow made your system drive none active, that can be solved by making it activate again via the Windows install media, however, that depends on what is giving you the Recovery Manager message.

I just had the same problem with True Image 2012. New Windows 7 Home Premium 64 o/s. Acronis loaded and ran fine. Today I made an Acronis emergency boot disk and set up the F11 recovery key. My system wouldn't boot, with same process as above. I finally went in and re-set the BIOS to system defaults, and Windows booted. The problem is I want to use the recovery functionality, as I did on my XP box. What do I do to fix the problem?