Unable to make a "Bootable Media Builder" CD
Dear Forum Members
Although I believe I have all the necessary Acronis software installed I am unable to create a bootable recovery CD.
First of all, here are the applications I have:
1) Acronis True Image Home 2009
2) Acronis Disk Director Suite 10
3) Acronis True Image 2009 Addons (Bart PE)
4) WinXP Pro SP3
Also, please see the attached screen print of my opened "Bootable Media Builder".
Note that the tick option for "Acronis True Image Home (Safe Version)" has a red "X" beside it and cannot be selected.
Also, the "Start automatically after" item, along with the box containing the number of selectable seconds, are both is greyed out.
OK now here is the story, whenever I try to burn a bootable CD the CD gets created but the CD is not bootable. In fact, the CD is just the same type as the ones I used to create with the free Western Digital version of Acronis.
Therefore, is there something that I am missing, something that I could add or something there that I should not be in the mix.
Awaiting someone that can explain what is happening.
UK Bob
PS. When I first installed ATIH2009 it was done without deleting the free ATI-WD version.
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Hi Tuttle
Good question, I do not have any other bootable CDs - I've never needed to have or create one before.
I bet your next question will be, how can I be sure that my Acronis CD cannot boot? Well, please take a look at the new attached screen print you will see the final words, in the information box, "No autostart configured".
I'm guessing that this has something to do with with the "Start automatically after" item, being greyed out (shown in my screen print on my previous post).
If "Start automatically after" could be be "un-greyed", i.e. made into a selectable choice, I believe that any CD I create from then on would be bootable.
However, I think I am missing a software component which I should add, so what is this component and where can I get it?
UK Bob
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I think that comment simply means you didn't select one of the apps (true Image, System Report, etc.) to automatically launch after a default delay upon booting the disk.
You need to edit your BIOS to set booting from optical drive (DVD/CD).
Or, set it to boot from USB and create the bootable Rescue Media to USB flash drive. Or, set both as higher priority than hard drive, which is what I do.
Do a web search for BIOS and your model of computer. Access to BIOS differs, so I don't know how to enter yours. Usually you reboot while holding a function key, say F2 or F8. Once in BIOS, you access a menu such as Boot Options or Boot Sequence or Boot Order. You would then set your optical drive to higher priority than your internal hard drive.
Some systems also have a Boot Menu that lets you select a temporary boot device just for the next bootup, without changing BIOS. On my system I acccess Boot Menu by pressing F12 at startup.
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Hi Tuttle
You said:
I think that comment simply means you didn't select one of the apps (true Image, System Report, etc.) to automatically launch after a default delay upon booting the disk.
Well, no I selected everything, just check my last screen print again (bmb2.jpg) and you will see that everything has been selected. Something, a software component, is definitely missing and I need to find and install that item.
About the last part of your post, I think you have drifted off into a problem that does not exist because my PC does already check my CD/DVD RW before booting from my hard disk, because I configured it that way already.
Please understand that I am not new when it comes to the workings of a PC, after all I did assemble this machine I am now using and that was because store-bought computers have built in limitations (as well as skimping on various hardware components). My PC works exactly as I designed it to work because, with the help of a more knowledgeable friend, I carefully selected all my hardware, configured the bios and chose WinXP Pro as my O/S rather than going for Win7, which was available at the time.
So please, no more "you don't really understand your problem" type explanations, that sort of thing is for novices only.
My problem is that, for some reason, my Acronis applications will not create a bootable CD, this has lead me to believe the necessary software component, needed to implement the boot facility, is missing.
UK Bob
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I asked: "Are you able to boot from any other (non-Acronis) bootable CDs?"
You replied: "Good question, I do not have any other bootable CDs - I've never needed to have or create one before."
That's why I suspected that perhaps your PC was not set to allow boot from CD/DVD. You said nothing to contradict that suspicion.
Please try booting from another (non-Acronis) bootable CD or a bootable USB flash drive, so we can know if it works on your PC.
I don't assume you're a novice. I base my responses on the information you provide. If you provide incomplete information, I must ask other questions or make assumptions. I still don't know if your PC boots from CD/DVD or from USB flash drive.
If your PC already allows boot from CD/DVD, and this truly is an issue with the particular CD, then you can create one a different way.Login to your Acronis account and download the latest bootable Rescue Media ISO, burn it to a disk. In Windows 7, you don't need any third-party software. Right-click the .iso and select "Burn disc image".
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