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Hello, I've got the Acronis True Image 2016 6571 and tried to make a bootable usb pendrive in FAT32. Tried both Rescue Media Builder and Acronis Universal Restore in two separate times. When booting from it stays on the message "Starting Acronis Loader..." but doesn't progress. The pendrive has a led and it blinks and then doesn't, and the cycle repeats continuosly every two seconds or so.
Previous version of Acronis True Image that I've tried (2014, 2015, I don't know) worked perfectly.


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Steve Smith wrote:invertez, what size of bootable USB pendrive are you using here?
See KB document: 58108: Acronis Software: Using USB Sticks with More than 32GB Capacity for some known issues.
Also, when booting from the USB pendrive, please ensure that you are doing so in the same mode as that which your Windows OS boots, i.e. if Windows boots using UEFI then the USB must do the same.
See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS
Thanks for answering. The usb pendrive is 8GB size Sandisk Cruzer and works perfectly if I install there linux-usb-bootable or anything.
My PC uses BIOS (is from Mid 2010 I think):
Info IBS Callback_BootEnvironmentDetect: Detected boot environment: BIOS
What I do is: format the pendrive in fat32 with windows 7 and then run Acronis True Image -> Tools -> Rescue Media Builder -> Acronis Bootable Rescue Media -> select drive for the pendrive.
If it the first message "Starting Acronis Loader...", not the second one that has the same exact message buy just when entering the GUI:
This is a picture (tried to use IMG bbcode but doesn't work): http://i66.tinypic.com/2saikj6.jpg
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Finally I solved it myself. It worked formatting the pendrive in FAT (FAT16). Then installing there "ACRONIS BOOTABLE RESCUE MEDIA" or "ACRONIS UNIVERSAL RESTORE" worked like a charm, alghouth I prefer bootable rescue media because the other has the option "Boot to operating system" that doesn't work.
The pain in the ass, is that you just can't delete all partition on a 8GB pendrive and put there a FAT16 partition. So what I did was the following:
- Wipe some MB the start of the pendrive with linux or cygwin under windows:
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc"
and hit Control+C after some MB. Note that sdc is in my case, don't copy if you don't know. - Open EaseUS Partition Master Free and create a FAT (FAT16) partition in the unpartitioned drive (maybe you need to remove it and put back again). Select Primary, FAT and apply changes.
- Open Acronis True Image, go to Tools -> Rescue Media Builder -> Acronis Bootable Rescue Media -> select the usb drive.
Alternatively, you can create the ISO file with Acronis Bootable Rescue Media and copy it in raw mode to the pendrive and wait until finishes:
"dd if=AcronisBootableMedia.iso of=/dev/sdc". This is what I did the first time because of my linux background and when exploring the pendrive I noticed that it was FAT16, so it made me thing about it and hit the nail in the head.
Those that don't want to use linux or cygwin commands can just use HDD Raw Copy Tool 1.10 to directly write the iso or any other file directly to the pendrive at block level.
If you want Acronis Disk Director to be included on AcronisBootableMedia.iso, you must install first True Image and then uninstall and reinstall Disk Director. That way both will be present when on the acronis recovery. To check from the program if they will be present on the iso or pendrive, go to "Acronis Universal Restore" -> Next -> Windows-like representation -> Next.
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Thank you for providing feedback with the solution you found to this issue, that is always helpful is other users are looking for help.
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I found the way to make it always work. It seems that sometimes formatting the pendrive may result in a corrupt partition table. So to fix it:
- Connect the USB flash drive to the computer
- Hit "Win-R (Start-Run)" and type "cmd" to show the command-line icon
- Right click on it -> Run as administrator
- Type "diskpart" to run the Windows diskpart
- Now type "list disk" to list all disks attached to the machine
- Once drives are listed then type "select disk [number]" to select the appropriate flash drive
- Then type "clean" to remove any formatting from the selected disk
- Now type "create partition primary"
- Once the partition is created, please type "select partition 1" so you select the only partition that is available on the flash drive
- Next type "active" to mark the partition as active
- In order to format the drive, type "format fs=fat32" so you format the disk in FAT32 (otherwise the drive will not be bootable)
- Once done, type "assign" to assign a drive letter
- Now type "exit" to exit Windows DiskPart utility
- Once the USB flash drive is ready, run your Acronis product in order to create the universal restore media on USB flash drive
More information:
* Using diskpart utility: https://kb.acronis.com/content/1526
* Creating Universal restore bootable media: https://kb.acronis.com/content/56637
So watch out when using Acronis Disk Director, EaseUS Partition Master or even the windows Administrative Tools -> Disk management. They can create a non-totally standard kind of patition.
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