MBR was protected, trying to create a Ventoy USB
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.
Hey Jacob!
Could you please share with us if the issue was resolved after applying the solution properly suggested by Steve?
Thanks in advance!
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.
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!
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