Even if you’ve never had experience with rescue boot media before, don’t worry. Making a bootable DVD or CD is not difficult and it ensures you can get your system running, even when it doesn’t want to.

What is rescue boot media?

Oct 05, 2009 Starting Acronis Loader Acronis Loader: No Configuration File Present Press Enter to reboot. I understand that there may be an alternate iso file that will correct this problem. I am using TI Workstation with Universal Restore version 9.1. Any help would be appreciated. Starting Acronis Loader. No configuration file present. Press to reboot So, I tried my version 10 boot disk. I still get the same message. Nothings wrong with the boot disk as it works on another.

Normally when powering your computer, the system “boots” (a.k.a. starts) from the operating system (OS) that is installed on your hard drive. Whether it is Windows, Linux, macOS, or something else, the OS tells all of the components of your computer what to do.
But sometimes you cannot use the installed OS, either because it is damaged or because you’re going to make changes to the OS that you cannot make while it’s in use. That’s where boot media comes in: it’s essentially a small, stripped down version of your operating system that can get your computer running when you can’t use the OS on your hard drive.
You can create boot media on a DVD, CD or Blu-ray disk that is loaded through your optical drive, which we’ll describe below. (You can also store your rescue “disk” on a USB drive, but the process for creating and using USB boot media is different.)

Configuration

'Acronis Loader: No configuration file present. Press to reboot.' The last thing was before I tried to reboot my system modifying the LAN/Ethernet PCI card's IP Address, Subnet Mask, etc. For Sygate Personal Firewall Pro v5.5. I ran disk2vhd on a recently built Windows 8.1 x64 machine. The conversion completed successfully, but I'm having no luck finding the right recipe to booting it in Hyper-V on a Server 2012 R2 machine. I've tried both Gen 1 and Gen 2 (with and without Secure Boot enabled). In both cases it apparently fails to find a boot loader.

What’s needed to make a bootable CD or DVD?

To create a bootable disk, you’ll need three things:

  1. Your computer must have an optical read/write drive,
  2. A blank DVD or CD that will become your boot disk,
  3. A software utility that will create the boot media. While there are other tools available, we’ll be using Acronis Disk Director 12. It is fully certified to work with all Windows operating systems up to and including Windows 10, and can run in the Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE). With WinPE-based media you can boot a crashed machine or one without any operating system.
DID YOU KNOW?
You can also create a Linux-based boot media disk using Acronis Disk Director 12.
You can find instruction on how to do that here.

How to make a bootable DVD or CD

Making a rescue boot disk using Acronis Disk Director 12 a simple process.

  1. In the main window, click Tools and open the Acronis Bootable Media Builder:
  1. On the welcome screen, click Next:
  1. Next, select Windows PE for the bootable media type, and Windows-like representation for the drive:
  1. To create WinPE boot media, your machine must have the Windows’ Automated Installation Kit (AIK) installed. If it’s already installed, Acronis Disk Director 12 will detect it. If not, you will be prompted to download and install it. (For instructions on Windows AIK, refer to this article.)
  2. You’ll then be able to Create WinPE automatically, and the WinPE preparation will start.
  1. If you have compatibility issues with the machine's hardware and the WinPE media, you’ll be able to add any specific drivers you need:
  1. Then simply select the type of media to create. Generally you’ll want to select an ISO image, but if you are creating a custom WinPE image, you have the option to create a WIM image file.
  1. Then you just choose where to save the image file and click Proceed.
  1. Once the WinPE media image is created, simply burn it to a disk.

How to boot from DVD or CD rescue media

  1. Go to your computer’s BIOS settings and confirm that the optical drive is listed first in the boot sequence. If it is not, reorder the list so the optical drive is first. That ensures your computer to boot from the DVD (or CD) instead of the hard drive as it normally does. (Most computers with an optical drive are already have it as the first boot item, but you should check first.)
  2. Insert the rescue boot disk into the optical drive.
  3. Restart your computer. You can do that from within Windows or a hard reset using the power button.
  4. Stay alert! Depending on your system, you may be prompted with a message to “Press any key to boot from CD or DVD” and you will only have a few seconds to respond.
    If you do not press a key, your computer will go to the next device in the boot sequence list, which will likely be your hard drive...so you’ll have to restart the system again.
  5. Your computer should start using the rescue boot disk.

Troubleshooting boot disk

If you followed all of these steps above, everything should be working fine. But if you find that your system is not booting from the disk like it’s supposed to, there are a few things you can check.

  1. Check the BIOS boot order again. Go back and make sure the optical drive was saved as the first in the boot order... an incorrect BIOS configuration is the most common issue.
  2. Is it the right disk drive? If your computer has more than one optical drive, insert the boot disk into the other drive and try again. Your system might only boot from a specific drive.
  3. Create a new boot disk. While unlikely, it is possible that the disk used to create the boot media was faulty. Rather than retrying the same rescue disk, burn a new one and see if that works.

You can restore Windows Boot Loader manually using Windows utilities

Introduction

Should you need to restore Windows Boot Loader, proceed as described in this article.

One of the symptoms when you need to do this, is when you have the BOOTMGR is missing error on an attempt to start Windows.

Solution

Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Installation CD

Boot the computer from the installation CD, start Recovery Console and run fixmbr and fixboot commands.

Further information is available at:

  • Windows 2000: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/229716/
  • Windows XP: see here
  • Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326215/

(!) If the system partition was not restored to its original position, then the boot.ini file needs to be updated.

This can be done with the Recovery Console command bootcfg /rebuild

Further information is available at:

  • Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317521/
  • For Windows 2000:
    • Create a boot disk first: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/301680/
    • Then change the boot.ini from Windows: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311578/

Windows Vista or Windows 7 installation CD/DVD

Boot from Windows Vista installation disc, select language and keyboard or input method, click Next and choose to Repair your computer. Then you will need to select the operating system that you want to repair. In the System Recovery Options dialog box click Command Prompt and type the following:

Bootrec.exe /FixMbr
Bootrec.exe /FixBoot

If you want to completely rebuild Windows Vista Boot Configuration Data, then you should issue the following command:

Bootrec.exe /RebuildBcd

This command scans all disks for installations that are compatible with Windows Vista. Additionally, this option also allows select the installations that you want to add to the Boot Configuration Data store.

Further information is available at https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/927392/use-bootrec-exe-in-the-windows-re-to-troubleshoot-startup-issues

Windows 8/8.1

Acronis Boot Loader No Configuration File Present Free

See instructions at Microsoft Knowledge Base http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2622803/

Windows 10

Repair MBR in Windows 10: click to expandConfiguration

1. Boot from Windows 10 installation DVD.

2. Press any key at the “Press any key to boot” message

3. When you get to the screen with 'Install now' button, сlick the Repair your computer button in the lower-left corner.

4. Click on Troubleshoot

5. Click on Advanced options, then select Command prompt

6. Use Bootrec tool to repair the MBR by running the following commands in command prompt, one after the other:

Acronis Loader No Configuration

  • bootrec /RebuildBcd
  • bootrec /fixMbr
  • bootrec /fixboot

7. Exit and reboot the computer

You can find more information at https://neosmart.net/wiki/bootrec/#Bootrec_in_Windows10

More information

Please keep in mind that fixmbr is supported only on x86-based machines.

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