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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Post your Questions or Comments about Acronis True Image Home

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?

Comments	Date
By paolo	2010-02-17 08:15:48
ciao
By Jason	2009-12-10 14:29:08
Interesting. I’ve used Acronis True Image to upgrade hard drives for years and never had a problem. If you have IDE drives, make sure the jumper is set to master and not slave. Did you select the mbr when cloning? Let us know how it turned out.
By Evan	2009-12-03 13:54:33
I have read all of this and maybe I missed something. I just cloned my 100 GB drive to a 160 GB drive with the intent of migrating to the larger drive. When I cloned the drive via Acronis, I selected both partitions and I can clearly see them when I look at the 160 drive as a slave. When I put the new drive in as a boot drive, it doesn't boot up, which leads me to believe I am missing a step, which has something to do with the boot CD .(that I have not created yet) and presumably this drive letter issue that was talked about. So if anyone has some insight they can share with me, I'd be most appreciative.
By Amir Khan	2009-10-26 17:36:44
Hi Randy I have same problem that device is busy (0X41110). I am using NERO burning software how do I disable this to make a Boot Disk. Please help. 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 Petyo123	2009-10-23 16:14:43
Very good explanation!My english is not so fluent but the text & images are so clear-thanks of autor.By the way the tutorial of Acronis is 4MB PDF{well above 200pages}.When read this amount of knowledges?
By rizky	2009-08-30 04:56:59
plis,i don't know how to burning a CD recovery,, i has create .tib and create bootable CD. my backup size more than 6GB,that's must using 2 pcs DVD. how to burning image to DVD 1 and DVD 2 using nero?? i must burning .iso+.tib in DVD1 and next insert DVD2 and continue?? help me pliss
By Randy	2009-08-10 10:24:19
The image is typically too large of a file to put it on the bootable CD. CD’s only hold about 700 Megabytes.
By Preetam	2009-08-10 06:48:29
Hi there...is it possible to store the backup image on the bootable cd itself? I guess you have not mentioned anything regarding this. I would like to boot from the bootable cd and use my drive image which would be stored on the same cd from which i have booted.
By dave	2009-07-15 08:19:18
I also cloned my Hard drive using Acronis True Image 2009. Can I boot up from the Cloned Drive, or Restore my system using the Cloned Drive, because the Image file is as ''Stated'', CORRUPT. Please advise
By Dave	2009-07-15 08:14:07
Today I got a virus and also spyware infection. I tried to restore the Image, but I got the following errors! 1. The backup is Corrupt, cannot assign drive letters and so on. What could the problem be??? Pls Help

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