Acronis Bootable Rescue Media USB flash drive unable to boot
Hi, so I bought a convertible laptop (HP Spectre x360) that comes with Windows 8.1 in UEFI mode (BIOS setting is Legacy Support disabled and Secure Boot enabled). I want to create an Acronis backup of the entire drive using the Acronis True Image 2015 bootable rescue USB pen drive. I'm unable to boot from this USB drive, it's not even listed in the boot options when I activate the boot menu by pressing ESC+F9 during boot as instructed in the manual. Any hint? It's my first experience with a UEFI computer, so maybe I'm missing something. Thanks.


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Depending on how HP have programmed their firmware you may need to do a couple of things in addition to that mentioned by Enchantech.
If once Secure Boot is disabled the UEFI can now see the USB drive but refuses to boot, you may to do one or all of the following.
Format as FAT32 your USB drive and use the HP utility (available I think from the HP website) or RMPREPUSB to make the PC think it is accessing a removable hard drive.
If the above still doesn't work, you could try:
Boot into Windows and start up the Windows Recovery Manager, select make a recovery environment, untick, store recovery file on media. Windows will now format your USB stick and lay down in the BCD the ID that your PC require to boot from USB.
Once that has finished you need to make the True Image recovery environment, as a WIM file.
When that is done, delete or rename the boot.wim on your USB stick and replace it with the True Image one. Rename (just to make it all easy) the TI one to boot.wim.
Your system will now or should boot into the True Image recovery environment.
Where the boot.wim file lives depends on whether your system is 32 or 64 bit system. for 32 bit systems it lurks in the sources folder in the root directory, for 64 bit systems you need to look in the EFI folder.
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I'm having a very similar problem after purchasing a new Motherboard (Gigabyte H97M-HD3, i3 3.7GHz processor, 16GB ram).
I'm currently using ATIH 2012 and never had a problem until now. I've updated the BIOS to V8, used ATIH usb and CD with quiet = no acpi command line options. So far nothing has worked, and the only problem is with this particular Motherboard. It works on all my older systems. I can only get as far as loading kernel, then the software hangs. I never make it to the home screen where I can restore or create a backup.
Does anyone know if the upgrade to TIH 2016 will fix this problem?
Thanks,
MAS
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Mas,
I suggest downloading the trial version of TI 2016, make the recovery CD (it will always be able to recover an image) and see if it works with your new motherboard. I suspect it will.
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