Removable media settings

Location: Options > Advanced > Removable media settings

When backing up to removable media, you can make this media bootable by writing additional components to it. Thus, you will not need a separate bootable disk.

Acronis True Image 2018 does not support creating bootable media if a flash drive is formatted in NTFS or exFAT. The drive must have a FAT16 or FAT32 file system.

The following settings are available:

• Place Acronis True Image 2018 on media

  Acronis True Image 2018 - includes support of USB, PC Card (formerly PCMCIA), and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them, and therefore is strongly recommended.

• Place Acronis System Report on media

  Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem. Report generation will be available before you start Acronis True Image 2018 from the bootable media. The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive.

• Ask for first media while creating backups on removable media

  You can choose whether to display the Insert First Media prompt when backing up to removable media. With the default setting, backing up to removable media may not be possible if the user is away, because the program will wait for someone to press OK in the prompt box. Therefore, you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media. Then, if the removable media is available (for example, CD-R/RW inserted) the backup can run unattended.

If you have other Acronis products installed on your computer, the bootable versions of these programs' components will be offered as well.

32-bit or 64-bit components

Please pay attention to which versions of Acronis True Image 2018 and Acronis System Report are compatible with your computer.