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Rescue disk won't boot

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I am running Acronis 2021 home edition. I am trying to create a Windows format Rescue Disk and bootable restored image. I can create a Windows format Rescue disk on a RW CD, but it won't boot.

Environment: Dell Optiplex 3040 with KingFast SD as primary drive/Windows 10 with BIOS in UEFI mode

                       Windows 10 Pro

                       Acronis 2021

                      RW CD connected via USB

                    

1) Open Acronis 2021

2) Choose "Rescue Media Builder"

3) Choose "Simple"

4) Choose "ISO file"

5) write ISO file to disk

6) Use Windows Explorer and burn ISO file to RW CD

7) Make sure CD is in optical device

8) Reboot computer to BIOS menu and force RW CD to first boot device

9) Exit bios and boot

The machine freezes at the Dell LOGO displaying traveling sequence of dots.

Note: if I repeat process and choose "Advance" and "Linux-based Media'; burn CD. The CD I get does boot successfully and it will generate a backup tibx and I can use that tibx to restore to a USB sata drive. However the restored USB sata drive won't boot.

I strongly suspect the issue is related to a missing driver on the Rescue disk (Windows version) and the restored USB image, possible caused by the fact that the original Windows installation is a KingFast SD. I have Acronis Universal restore, but have no idea what driver might be missing or how to find the correct .inf file on the running Windows 10 to use with Universal restore.

So how do I get Acronis to generate a working Windows 10 Rescue CD and how do I get Acronis to restore a bootable  image to a USB sata drive?

 

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Craig, booting PC's from optical media can be problematic and is a matter of how the PC BIOS manages the optical device and media.

I would recommend using USB rescue media as far as possible as that is much more reliable and to create this direct from either the Acronis media builder program or using the MVP Assistant rescue media build tool rather than first making an ISO image file then using a third-party tool to burn to media (same applies to CD/DVD media).

However the restored USB sata drive won't boot.

That is expected behaviour - Microsoft actively prevents Windows from being booted from external USB media and restoring a backup to a USB drive will not overcome this Microsoft restriction.