acronis secure zone resulted in boot problem. Unable to enter BIOS setting or boot menu either
Hi, I am on windows 8 pro on my dell XPS laptop.I tried to install Acronis secure zone on my hard-disk .It asked for a system restart and the process started after the restart. The process was taking a long time so I decided to cancel it in the middle.(I guessed hitting the cancel button reverts the process).It took arround 10-15 minutes after I hit the cancel button for the system to restart again. But the whole problem starts here.I am stuck to windows 8 "Preparing Automatic Repair " screen.The F2 , F12 ,F8 and Shift+ F8 key wont work. All keys except F2 leads me to same window "Preparing Automatic repair" loop screen. The F2 leads to a blank screen with a cursor on top left which is not blinking.
Is there any solution to get past this problem.
My system is a dual boot system with windows 8 and windows 7 .The recovery disk for windows 7 also wont work as it does not boot to recovery.I also have windows 8 bootable USB but it wont boot to it either.
Please help me .I am desperate to get some help.
Thanks
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Pat L wrote:Yeah, I'd refrain from using the Acronis secure zone, the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager on a new Windows 8 machine. These machines have mostly GPT disks and UEFI boot.
It looks like it is not quite the case for you. So I am assuming you have a MBR disk.
Because you canceled the process of creating the secure zone, the status of your disk layout is uncertain....
Boot the computer on the recovery CD and inspect the disk with Diskpart (list disk, list partitions, etc.).
If the Acronis secure zone is created, delete it using the Acronis recovery CD. If it is not created, try to use the Windows 8 installation DVD to repair the startup of your computer.
The thing is that it does not boot into windows 8 Disk or any other bootable media .I tried many of them. I tried acronis boot disk also but it did not boot through that disk also.
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If you have UEFI BIOS, try to disable secure boot and UEFI and enable legacy boot to boot on the recovery media.
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