Creating Bootable Rescue Media using Acronis TrueImage Home

What I normally do with Acronis is make TWO boot cd's every time I copy my image files from my second HDD to DVD's.

There is always the possibility that one of the cd's goes bad and at least you'll have the second one to boot from.

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I use Acronis but it is my understanding you can boot from the cd the software comes on. Why do you need to make a cd?

Many people - perhaps most - download Acronis and have no CD.

18-Aug-2009

Acronis TI bootable CD does not work on my Toshiba laptop with SATA drive unless I change the properties of the drive in the BIOS (to non AHCI) and then I fall into other problems when I want to restart after replacing an image file for my C:.
There is a workaround though by not using a bootable CD--but then Windows on C: must still boot!

I too have tried to use Acronis on my Toshiba laptop without any sucess. It will not make proper backups on an external drive or my network drive. Their support personel were unable to solve the problem. In fact they did not even find a discussion thread on their own forum that was slightly helpful for over three months and it had been posted by one of their own personel. I am glad Acronis works for you but I have given up and gone to using Ghost which I use on my desktop computer. Ghost has work perfectly on the Toshiba. I asked Acronis for a refund but they will only keep sending me back to the same support personel that cannot solve the problem. I am not impressed with Acronis.

I have Acrois TI Home and I did made a rescue cd. How often, if ever, must a new rescue cd be made? The cd I made was done this past May '09. Unlike periodic, or regular, backups I was wondering if the rescue cd also needed refreshing. Thanks.

Only if you lose it. Though I would also make a new one if you update your version of Acronis.

19-Aug-2009

A few questions: is the bootable rescue media for booting into your OS? What specifically is included in this image(entire registry, software settings, ...)?
65 MB image? Can you use a (at least 65 MB) 256 MB or larger USB flash drive to have this image written to and booted from?
On my Attache' 1 GB flash drive it has, I think, a partition that is recognized as a CD. On systems which do not have the capability(BIOS or otherwise) to boot from USB and/or Flash drives...would this "CD" ~partition be a viable option for storing a bootable image? When you write an image on a flash drive and make it bootable, can you write additional information or delete the image?

Te bootable media is completely unrelated to what's on your hard disk. Remember - it has to be able to boot even if the hard drive is completely blank, so that you could restore a backup image to that blank hard drive. The bootable media is a completely stand-alone OS (I believe it's based on a Linux distribution). I suppose there are ways to add to it, but in general no - it's sole purpose us to run the Acronis recovery tools and nothing more.

20-Aug-2009

The "Downloadable mp4" gave me a 2 min video with no picture and no sound. It used Windows Media Player.

VLC Player will play it. (I'm still experimenting with formats. Check back, I may add more.)

20-Aug-2009

I am looking for your video on "how to restore an entire system image" using Acronis. If I remember correctly, you mentioned that there is one available, but I simply could not find it. I am no techee and just received a PC with WinXP and some software already installed, however, I have no access to the installation CDs (not for XP nor for any of the other programs). I would like to find out the steps to creating the DVDs, which will allow me to restore the entire disk drive (all I have is one hard drive with one partition: "C:") in case of a complete disaster. I would very much appreciate your help on this issue.

You misheard - that video only became available yesterday: Restoring An Image Using Acronis TrueImage Home

23-Sep-2009

Hi Leo,
Thanks for the new video on restoring a full image using Acronis. Now that I have all the required steps, I tried the backup procedure. I installed the Software and that was successful, however, when I tried to create the Rescue disk (I am using a DVD+R CD), the process fails. I must say that I poked around the Web to find some Software which would allow me to create a bootable version of my XP OS and found BartPE. I used this Software and was successful in creating the bootable DVD using the same media. In other words, it does not seem like a media problem, but rather a Software issue. Any idea what could be the problem and how to resolve it, as I would very much like to have Acronis Software as my backup solution.

Thanks again for all your help.

Can't really say, since you didn't provide any details of exactly how things are failing for you.

24-Sep-2009

Hi Leo,
Thanks for your prompt reply. Basically, all I do is place the DVD in the drive and activate the menu option in Acronis which attempts to create the Rescue disk. When prompted, I select the DVD media as the target (instead of an ISO file, which is the only other option). Then, I see a "Processing..." window with a green bar for about 45 seconds. As the bar reaches the end, I get the following message:
Bad Media! Provide another media and try again.

If I try it on a DVD which I had previously used to burn BartPE, Acronis detects that the media is not empty and prompts me to Format it. When I accept, it attempts the operation once more and displays the same message as above. Is it possible that the Rescue Disk media is limited to a specific format, e.g. CD-R and will not accept DVD as a media for this purpose?
Once again, your help would be greatly appreciated.

Why not just try the CD-R? I do believe that since what's being written is so small that a CD-R is assumed.

29-Sep-2009

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