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Acronis Replaced WIndows 7 Boot Program?

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I'm building a new PC with Windows 7 on it. I loaded ATI 2015 and made a complete disk backup.

I want to check this all works before I load all my data onto it. So using the basic Acronis recovery CD I rebooted and recovered what I just backup up. Using the recover the whole disk including MBR.

However, after this this I now get the old Windows XP starting screen (with the horizontal progress bar). Also, if I have a CD loaded I get an Acronis message asking if I want to load Windows or do a recovery.

Is there a way to stop ATI replacing the MBR boot program? Is the Windows XP one even OK with Windows 7?

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Mark:

To prevent ATI from replacing the boot loader, do not select the checkbox for "MBR and Track 0" when recovering partitions from the recovery CD. However, your symptoms are very unusual. Did you activate the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (on the Tools menu under "More Tools"? If you have the recovery CD you do not need to activate this; you can just boot from the CD.

To remove the Startup Recovery Manager or to just return to the standard Windows 7 boot manager, boot your PC from a Windows 7 installation DVD and replace the MBR as illustrated here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/32523/how-to-manually-repair-windows-7-b…

I need to do a full backup/restore as I have a number of programs which store license information in the MBR area.

I created the CD from the Tools/Rescue Media Builder: selecting the Acronis Bootable Rescue Media. I didn't select anything to install a boot manager anywhere. On my other system (using ATI 2014) I've never had this behaviour.

Thanks for the MBR tip, I'll try that.

Does anyone know how to stop Acronis from replacing the MBR bootloader program?

It is definitely the Acronis CD Recovery program which is replacing it. I can't find anything in the documentation about this.

When loading it shows the Windows XP progress bar but still seems to load ok. Surely, they must be differences for the Windows 7 version apart from the graphics?

The boot loader in the MBR is extremely simple and dumb. It knows nothing about graphics. Any graphic progress bars that you are seeing come from a subsequent stage of the boot process, not from the MBR. In Windows 7 it's the fifth stage in the boot process that displays the graphic, and the program responsible for this is "Winload.exe". This happens long after the MBR code has executed and has nothing to do with Acronis True Image.

Have a look at this article for a possible solution: http://www.askvg.com/fix-windows-7-boot-screen-changed-to-vista-styled/