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Bootable Media Builder
Chapter 9. Bootable Media Builder
9.1
General information
There are situations in which you might have to run Acronis Disk Director Suite without
booting either operating system:
in order to reactivate Acronis OS Selector after installing a new operating system
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in order to use Acronis Disk Director Suite on a non-Windows system, for example, a
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Linux-based PC
if you do not often use Acronis Disk Director Suite and therefore do not want to install
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it on the computer
Acronis Disk Director Suite has a standalone bootable version that can run from CD or
other removable media without booting an operating system. If you purchased the boxed
product, you already have such a bootable CD, because the installation CD contains,
besides the program installation files, the Acronis Disk Director Suite standalone bootable
version.
If you purchased Acronis Disk Director Suite on the Web, you can create bootable media
using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a CD-R/RW blank, several
formatted diskettes (the wizard will tell you the exact number), or any other media your
PC can boot from, such as a Zip drive.
If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis Disk Director
Suite installation, you will not be able to use this feature.
Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a
bootable disk on the hard disk. If there is a PXE server in your local network having the
Acronis PXE agent installed, its administrator can save the bootable data on this server as
well. Then any networked computer will be able to boot the Acronis Disk Director Suite
standalone version.
If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis True Image, installed on your
computer, you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable
disk as well.
9.2
Creating bootable media
1. Run the Bootable Media Builder from the tools section of main window sidebar or
from the respective main menu section.
2. Select which components of Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable disk.
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