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Creating a Bootable CD using Acronis
True Image
A terrific feature that Acronis True Image 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 review. 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 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.
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By Clive |
2009-01-25 22:25:00 |
Not sure what version of ACRONIS I am using at the moment but find it works fine whether or not it's "Duping" XP or VISTA. Only once in a while will I see it stuff up with a "Cant read from Sector 2" error meessage or somthing similar. Overall, I love it, makes swapping of drives just so bloody simple! |
By Randy |
2009-01-14 10:41:39 |
Hal, It seems that the problem is not created by the Acronis software. Depending on the CD burning software you are using, you need to disable it because it takes control of the CD drive and makes it seem busy. For instance if you are using Roxio EZ CD Creator, disable the “Drag to Disk” feature and everything will work fine. |
By Hal |
2009-01-13 18:14:32 |
I have the VERY same problem as Harry Thomson above... ie Device is busy (0x40010) I do NOT understand how the comment by Rajan "neet to convert from normal cd to bootable cd" is DONE. PLEASE explain. |
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 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 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??? |
By IAMHELPERPERSON |
2008-05-06 22:14:09 |
Well it doesn't really care about the hard drive. It just puts whatever your 60GB HDD had on it and that's it, you have more memory and everything else is good |
By Randy |
2008-04-30 08:35:55 |
Somewhere in your BIOS there is a spot to enable the USB keyboard and mouse. This will enable you to use Acronis True Image in the low-level mode. The BIOS settings vary depending on the computer you are using so it is hard to pinpoint exactly where to find the setting. Search your BIOS settings and enable the USB feature. Be careful not to change anything else! |
By Martin |
2008-04-29 14:43:43 |
Hi I have creaed a bootable CD using Acronis True Image but when my computer boot from this CD i can't use my keyboard and mouse. Can you help me? P.C I have USB keyboard and USB mouse. Maybe this is the problem? |
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