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MBR was protected, trying to create a Ventoy USB

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Hi Folks.  Still clinging to TrueImage 2018 'cause it still works great.

On a new Windows-11 laptop, I tried initialize a USB with a bootable product named Ventoy. (ventoy.net, for the curious.)  When I ran it, it wiped the USB, as expected, but then I got this message from Acronis Active Protection (See attached.) 

The main message (in case it does not display as I think it should) was:

  • An attempt by process <path to ventoy2disk.exe> to modify MBR of your disk was successfully blocked.

I must presume the MBR in question was that of the freshly formatted USB.  So now we get to to meat of my question:

Short of temporarily stopping the Active Protection service, is there  way to tell Acronis to NOT protect the MBR of a USB drive?

How to cure the resulting bricked USB is another problem, beyond the scope of this forum.  But if someone know a method that works, please post it.  (Google has found me a gazzillion methods that don't match the dialogs I see under Device Manager.)

Thanks much for help!

-- Jake S.

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Jake, you have the option to either temporarily turn off AAP or else to set an exclusion for ventoy2disk.exe in AAP.

KB 60193: Acronis True Image 2018, 2019 and 2020: Active Protection blocks legitimate applications

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Hey Jacob!

Could you please share with us if the issue was resolved after applying the solution properly suggested by Steve?

Thanks in advance!

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This is my third attempt to post an answer to Jose.  This forum has some issues!

In any case:  Yes, I disabled Acronis Active Protection but I don't remember how.  I think it was from the "sprocket" icon for [Settings].  I have not re-enabled it.

That said, yes it allowed me to sup up the Ventoy drive and load 4 or 5 boot images on it.  The bricked drives, however, remain hopelessly bricked.

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Jacob Salomon wrote:

This is my third attempt to post an answer to Jose.  This forum has some issues!

In any case:  Yes, I disabled Acronis Active Protection but I don't remember how.  I think it was from the "sprocket" icon for [Settings].  I have not re-enabled it.

That said, yes it allowed me to sup up the Ventoy drive and load 4 or 5 boot images on it.  The bricked drives, however, remain hopelessly bricked.

Hi Jacob. Thanks for the updates, we really appreciate it.

Cheers!