Acronis Media Builder

You can run Acronis True Image 2013 from an emergency boot media on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data into the backup by imaging the disk in the sector-by-sector mode. To do so, you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image 2013 version installed on it.

If you purchased the boxed product, you already have a bootable CD, because the installation CD itself is bootable.

If you purchased Acronis True Image 2013 on the Web or as a download from a retailer, you can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a blank CD-R/RW, a blank DVD+R/RW or any other media from which your computer can boot, such as a USB flash drive.

Please note, you cannot boot Windows operating system from a bootable media created on a USB flash drive.

Acronis True Image 2013 also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disc on the hard disk.

If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Home installed on your computer, you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable media as well.

Notes

• If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image 2013 installation, you will not be able to use this feature.
• When booting from the Rescue Media, you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems.
• Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions. Due to this reason, we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Acronis True Image 2013 upgrade.
• When booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Acronis True Image 2013 you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption available in Windows XP and later operating systems. For more information see File-level security settings for backup. On the other hand, backups encrypted using the Acronis True Image 2013 encryption feature can be recovered.