Creating a Bootable CD using Acronis True Image

A terrific feature that Acronis True Image 11 has packed into the program is the ability to create a bootable CD. You are probably thinking that is not a big deal. The thing that differs the True Image bootable CD from an ordinary bootable CD is that Acronis allows you to put the entire True Image program on the bootable CD. Can you imagine the possibilities? This is a review of the Acronis True Image process of creating a CD.

What good would the Acronis True Image application be if it was sitting on your hosed hard drive? If you were to totally hose your Operating System, you could just pop the bootable CD in and run True Image from the CD to restore the image that you made in the last tutorial. You did keep the image in a safe place didn’t you? Creating the bootable CD is just as easy as creating an image or restoring an image. Here is a quick tutorial about how to make a bootable CD with the Acronis True Image program installed on the CD.

Open up the True Image application and choose to Create Bootable Rescue Media.

The next screen you will see is the welcome screen that welcomes you to the Acronis Media Builder. Click next.

The next screen is the Rescue Media Contents Selection. Here you have a choice about whether to install the Full Version of True Image or the safe version. Choose the Full version, which includes drivers for USB and SCSI disks.

The next screen you will see is the Bootable Media Selection. For this tutorial you would choose the CD-RW drive to make a bootable CD.

The next screen simply shows you what the media builder is going to do. Check this screen over to make sure it is what you want to do and click the proceed button.

A few seconds later, the bootable CD is complete. You should test it to make sure that it will work in an emergency. Do not wait until you need it to try it. I have never had one fail but you never know. The Acronis True Image program makes disk management so easy. I wish there were programs like this one back in the day…

This is what you will see when you boot your computer with the Acronis True Image 11.0 bootable CD. You could boot to Windows or run the True Image program.

This next screenshot is the full program running from the bootable CD.

With the Acronis program on CD, you could just follow the restore tutorial to restore the original image to a drive right from the CD. So if your hard drive were to totally crash, you could just buy another one and put your good image on the new drive without having to reload the Operating System. Maybe you are just running out of disk space and want to upgrade your hard drive without installing Windows again. The restore CD will work great for that purpose too! Acronis True Image is truly a life saver.

On a scale of Bytes to Brontobytes, the Acronis True Image Media Builder process gets a Brontobyte. It is the simplest boot CD I have ever made.

Acronis True Image 11.0 - Complete disk imaging and system disk backup for home PCs

Acronis True Image 11

Acronis True Image 11.0 - Just released Version 11. The complete disk imaging, system disk backup, and bare-metal restore for workstations and home PCs. Great for Seamless Hard Drive Upgrades: Transfer Windows and all installed programs from one drive to another. A perfect solution if you're looking to upgrade your hard drive and don't want to reinstall Windows. If you are interested in buying Acronis True Image 11, you can get 20% off just for putting in the following coupon code when you order: Code: ATIH20 This is a limited time offer - Enjoy!

Download a free trial of the Acronis True Image software so you can follow the tutorial on your own computer.

Post your Questions or Comments about Acronis True Image 11

Comments	Date
By harry Thomson	2008-08-16 16:11:04
I cannot get Acronis V11 to burn a bootable CD. When it gets to the burn stage it comes up with the error E00040010 Device is busy (0x40010) Tag=0x8b7f8138ebd33eb3. Have closed all other burning software and their services including WMP service. but still no joy, it does the same on both my computers.....Any help would be much appreciated........
By ranjan	2008-08-11 13:43:32
neet to convert from normal cd to bootable cd
By krimo	2008-07-24 15:20:12
when i boot from the bootable cd i get the message unable to load linux kernel press enter to reboot could ou help please
By Randy	2008-07-23 08:16:25
Acronis True Image will restore all 3 partitions without you having to create them first. To be on the safe side, I would not recommend resizing the partitions during the restore process. The Acronis Disk Director is the safest utility to resize partitions.
By Capt Proton	2008-07-22 14:08:10
I made a back up of my RAID 5 Array, which has 3 partitions. If I need to refoemat and rstore, do I creates the partitions first, or does the image do that? If the image does that, can I change the size of the partitions and override the sizes of the original image?
By Guru	2008-07-21 04:56:40
OK, I got it working. I found an old image which was of the complete drive rather than just the C: partition (Dells have a couple of other partitions). So, lesson for me: image the whole drive not just the C: partition in future.
By Randy	2008-07-14 09:01:15
Guru, I have never ran across that particular problem. There must have been a partition on the hard drive that True Image couldn’t overwrite for some reason. You may have to wipe the disk before you restore the image. Follow the image restore review here and see if you may have inadvertently let the partition be named the G: drive. http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/Acronis_restore.htm Let us know how you make out. Thanks.
By guru	2008-07-14 05:43:52
I've just had a major hard drive crash and my hard drive lost its boot sector. So I booted up Acronis from CD and placed the image back on my internal drive. Now I get windows saying it can't boot because of a hardware misconfiguration. I think it's to do with not being able to find c:boot.ini. I noticed that when my image was being written from my external drive to my internal drive I got C:->G:. Has it named my internal drive G:?! Is this why windows can't boot? How do I correct this?
By Randy	2008-06-04 08:43:18
You need to make your computer boot from the CD Drive. Depending on the computer you are using, you either have to go into the BIOS settings and set it to Boot From the CD or some computers have a boot menu you can access by pressing the F2 or F12 key at boot time. Be careful not to change any unnecessary settings in the BIOS.
By raj	2008-06-03 16:56:48
i have followed the process and made a boot cd. but when i tried to test it on my philips cd rw drive my computer did not boot from the cd and carried on normal booting process after waiting for a 2 mints without any message or anything. what is the problem???

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