Hi there Sysnative gurus!
I KNOW this isn't necessarily directly concerning my Win 7 SP1 x64 (with all the updates installed) but on the other hand there is a big possibility that it truly is, since this flaw appeared suddenly. I think that this might originate from something having gone wrong with my Boot Sector or MBR or whatever, since I only recovered my whole PC from Acronis backup v11.5 (including MBR's since I recovered my DISKS - not partitions) and after that my PC started booting very slowly. Meaning that when doing a cold boot, the BIOS screen is okay but right after that there is so called ACRONIS STARTUP RECOVERY MANAGER (ASRM) which is activated via Acronis software inside Windows so it always executes before Windows starts to load - offering a possibility to press F11 and boot into Acronis environment without Win OS so that one can restore PC even if Windows has rendered unbootable.
My Acronis support period is long since over and their Forum couldn't offer any concrete help from other Acronis users so I had to write to You.
Be noted that earlier (before the full restore) the ASRM worked wonderfully; the "Press F11 to enter Acronis Backup" appeared right away after BIOS screen, Actually there is a text "Starting Acronis loader..." which lasted earlier only for 2-3 seconds before the F11 prompt, but now that "Starting Acronis loader..." text is stuck for 2½ minutes before the F11 prompt appearing. And that's so annoying since I have no clue that what might cause this.
I have and IDE environment and not AHCI, which some people have long ago said that might be the cause for this issue (I have had this same problem in some of my earlier OS installations on this same PC with the same configuration) but it can't be the absolute reason since just 10 days ago the ASRM worked just like it should, and NOTHING has been changed in BIOS. I tried initializing my Boot sector with commands like bootrec /FixBoot and /FixMbr etc. and then (since ASRM got erased) enabled ASRM again, but with no success.
I'm sorry to bother You with this Acronis stuff but it cannot be JUST Acronis since it has been working fine earlier. This has to have something to do with the MBR etc. At least I think it might have.
I have no attachments to include in this thread since I don't know that which files or info to include. If there are somekind of a 'bootlog' files somewhere then I could provide them but I don't know anything about that deep stuff.
And one more thing; I have this Acronis Boot CD also which basically is has the same info than this ASRM Acronis environment, but booting up from that CD is just as slow now. It wasn't before either some 10 days ago.
I appreciate You having this service freely available, I really do. Can You help me?
Thank You in advance!
- Tommi Tiihonen
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I have a MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard, Intel i7 processor @ 4,5GHz, 16MB RAM. The system drive (C:) is a solid state drive. But my software and user profile is on my drive D: which is a RAID0 drive consisting of 3 HD's.
I KNOW this isn't necessarily directly concerning my Win 7 SP1 x64 (with all the updates installed) but on the other hand there is a big possibility that it truly is, since this flaw appeared suddenly. I think that this might originate from something having gone wrong with my Boot Sector or MBR or whatever, since I only recovered my whole PC from Acronis backup v11.5 (including MBR's since I recovered my DISKS - not partitions) and after that my PC started booting very slowly. Meaning that when doing a cold boot, the BIOS screen is okay but right after that there is so called ACRONIS STARTUP RECOVERY MANAGER (ASRM) which is activated via Acronis software inside Windows so it always executes before Windows starts to load - offering a possibility to press F11 and boot into Acronis environment without Win OS so that one can restore PC even if Windows has rendered unbootable.
My Acronis support period is long since over and their Forum couldn't offer any concrete help from other Acronis users so I had to write to You.
Be noted that earlier (before the full restore) the ASRM worked wonderfully; the "Press F11 to enter Acronis Backup" appeared right away after BIOS screen, Actually there is a text "Starting Acronis loader..." which lasted earlier only for 2-3 seconds before the F11 prompt, but now that "Starting Acronis loader..." text is stuck for 2½ minutes before the F11 prompt appearing. And that's so annoying since I have no clue that what might cause this.
I have and IDE environment and not AHCI, which some people have long ago said that might be the cause for this issue (I have had this same problem in some of my earlier OS installations on this same PC with the same configuration) but it can't be the absolute reason since just 10 days ago the ASRM worked just like it should, and NOTHING has been changed in BIOS. I tried initializing my Boot sector with commands like bootrec /FixBoot and /FixMbr etc. and then (since ASRM got erased) enabled ASRM again, but with no success.
I'm sorry to bother You with this Acronis stuff but it cannot be JUST Acronis since it has been working fine earlier. This has to have something to do with the MBR etc. At least I think it might have.
I have no attachments to include in this thread since I don't know that which files or info to include. If there are somekind of a 'bootlog' files somewhere then I could provide them but I don't know anything about that deep stuff.
And one more thing; I have this Acronis Boot CD also which basically is has the same info than this ASRM Acronis environment, but booting up from that CD is just as slow now. It wasn't before either some 10 days ago.
I appreciate You having this service freely available, I really do. Can You help me?
Thank You in advance!
- Tommi Tiihonen
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I have a MSI Z77A-GD65 motherboard, Intel i7 processor @ 4,5GHz, 16MB RAM. The system drive (C:) is a solid state drive. But my software and user profile is on my drive D: which is a RAID0 drive consisting of 3 HD's.