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Rescue Media is not booting

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TIH 2012 with PP is installed on Win7 64x, all with newes updates.
Win 7 is installed with EFI "GPT" (not UEFI) on Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3-F5
The Rescue Media is not booting, all options in the Awardbios are set for booting from CD.
The Rescuemedia contains no EFI-Loader.
What is the way to boot from the Rescue-Media?

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How did you create the Recovery media CD-R?

Try logging in to acronis.com, go to product updates, download the iso for bootcd, burn it to cd using imgburn or other good CD burner. See if that boots. How win is installed shouldn't matter for whether the bootCD boots up -- booting form the CD only reads the code on the CD for boot up, not on the windows disk.

In Windows 7, you don't need any third-party software. Right-click the .iso and select Burn disc image.

Thanks for your tips.
The CD is created with TIH 2012 from the menu.
The CD starts on my Win7 32 Laptop.
My PC (EFI) will not boot from this CD. When the PC is starting only a short blinking of the CD-Drive occurs, then the OS is loading from HD.
As I mentioned before, the BIOS is configured to start from CD, HD boot is disabled.
TIH seems not to install the EFI-Bootfolder.
Under this conditions TIH is nealy useless, if the systemdisk has a failure.
This can't be true!

Are you able to boot from any other bootable CDs?

No, even the original Win7 is not booting on this EFI machine.

I found that it is no benefit for me, when I am only able to boot from the system partition.

I regret, that I used the EFI option to install Windows, I was not aware of this issue.

There is no way back without reinstall Win7 on a blank HD, changing manually GPT to MBR.

I will try it next weekend. 

Thanks for your assistance.

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Rho28790,
Could you switch the BIOS away from EFI booting? Many BIOS have this option. That might allow you to boot from DVD/CD...

Rho28790 wrote:

No, even the original Win7 is not booting on this EFI machine.

Ah, okay, that sheds a different light on this. This is not an Acronis True Image problem, this is a more basic issue with your system. I'm not familiar with EFI, so I'll leave you in Pat's capable hands.

There is a option called EFI CD/DVD Boot option. This is the only EFI option in BIOS. I switched this to EFI.
But now after WIN7 Installation it is not the way to boot from CD. It has just no effect.

The BIOS "knows" that there is a GPT-Partition and not MBR.

I found this on :
http://technet.microsoft.com/de-de/library/cc737510(WS.10).aspx

Seems to be a fundamental problem but thats not to be discussed on this forum.
Maybe Acronis finds a way to build rescuediscs for EFI systems.