Chapter 10. Creating Bootable Media; Creating Acronis Rescue Media - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE ECHO - WORKSTATION User Manual

Chapter 10. Creating bootable media

10.1 Creating Acronis rescue media

You can run Acronis True Image Echo Workstation on a bare metal or on a crashed
computer that cannot boot. You can also back up disks on a non-Windows computer,
copying all its data sector-by-sector into the backup archive. To do so, you will need
bootable media with the standalone Acronis True Image Echo Workstation version.
Because Acronis True Image Echo Workstation is available only as a download, you must
create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a blank
CD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, several formatted diskettes (the wizard will tell you the exact
number), or any other media your computer can boot from, such as a Zip drive.
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation also has the ability to create an ISO image of a
bootable disk on the hard disk. If there is a Microsoft RIS server in your local network, an
IT administrator can save the bootable data on this server as well. Then any networked
computer will be able to boot Acronis True Image Echo Workstation from the RIS
package.
If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Suite, installed on your
computer, you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable
disk as well.
This feature is available both in Acronis True Image Echo Workstation local version and
Acronis True Image Management Console. However, Acronis True Image Management
Console does not contain Rescue Media Builder in its own installation. Therefore, to be
able to create bootable media/RIS package from Acronis True Image Management
Console, you must have Acronis True Image Echo Workstation local version or another
Acronis product including Rescue Media Builder installed on the same computer.
If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image
Echo Workstation installation, you will not be able to use this feature.
1. Click Create Bootable Rescue Media on the toolbar or the sidebar, or select Create
Bootable Rescue Media from the Tools menu. You can also run the Bootable Rescue
Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image Echo Workstation by selecting
Programs -> Acronis -> True Image -> Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the
Start menu.
2. Select which components of Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable
media.
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation offers the following components:
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation full version
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Includes support of USB, PC Card and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices
connected via them, and therefore is highly recommended.
Acronis True Image Echo Workstation safe version
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Does not include USB, PC Card, or SCSI drivers. Recommended for use in case of
problems with running Full version
Acronis Bootable Agent full version
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