Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

CharlyB767, welcome to these user forums.

With the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, ASRM - the F11 key should just launch a Linux OS based environment from which the Acronis True Image application would be launched.  If you are seeing the F11 prompt on booting, but not going further than that point, then it suggests that your computer BIOS settings either do not allow the booting of the Linux environment or this is incompatible with the same.  

Try checking what your BIOS settings are, and in particular, if you have Secure Boot enabled, try with this disabled.

A lot of the MVP's do not use the ASRM because of the modifications it makes to the Windows boot configuration files and problems such as these with UEFI / Secure Boot systems.  Also please understand that if you have a disk failure that the ASRM will also be lost too as it is essentially a part of the boot configuration and a hidden folder on the disk drive.

You can test the Linux side of the above comments by creating the standard Acronis Rescue Media on CD or USB stick and see if this will boot in the ATIH application or not - this is essentially the same as used by ASRM.

Thanks Steve

My bios indicates secure boot enabled ( disabling  isn't straight forward ...  ) 

I have created an Acronis Rescue Media  USB stick , my C drive system is backed up on my F drive (.tib file)  

My PC will boot to a USB drive, so will I be able to recover my system by this method instead of the F11 method?

Many thanks Steve for your help

Yes, you can recover after booting from the ATI Rescue Media. In fact, that is the method recommend by most of us MVPs. I dislike the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and the Acronis Secure Zone.

Create the ATI Rescue Media now and see if your system will boot into it. You want to check this now, not wait until an emergency.

If you are able to boot successfully from your USB stick Rescue Media and do your backups that way, then this should be fine for any future recovery you may need to perform.  This approach would always be needed should your hard disk drive fail and you had to do a 'bare metal' recovery from your backup image file.

Some motherboards use F11 key for selection of boot devices, which may explain what you are seeing. ASRock use F11 for this purpose. It may also be that boot mode selection is somehow diabled in the bios.

Ian

Thanks for your help guys, Ill check the USB boot now and let you know 

Ok just booted from USB, I clicked on the USB drive in the bios boot section and selected number 1 and it took me to Acronis :-)

Thanks all, much appreciated

Good!

After creating a backup, Boot from the ATI Rescue Media, choose a files/folders restore and restore a couple of files. That will give you high confidence that you'd be able to do a full restore in an emergency.