21733: Acronis Backup 11.7/11.5 and Acronis Backup & Recovery 11: Bootable Media with Linux-Like Representation Cannot Access NTFS Disks

Last update: 01-04-2016

Switch to Windows-like disk representation

Symptoms

  1. You boot from Acronis Bootable Media with Linux-like disk representation;
  2. When booted, you attempt to access an NTSF partition;
  3. The attempt fails with the following error:

    Read-only file system

Cause

The Linux-style bootable media cannot write a backup to an NTFS-formatted volume.

Solution

Switch to the Windows style to write to an NTFS-formatted volume.

To switch, click Tools -> Choose media style.

 

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