User`s guide

11 Creating bootable media

11.1 Creating Linux-based rescue media

You can run Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup from an emergency boot disk 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 archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time. To do

so, you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick

Backup version installed on it.

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 Zip

drive.

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 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 Suite installed on your computer,

you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk as well.

If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup

installation, you will not be able to use this feature.

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When booting from the Rescue Media, you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3,

ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems.

1. Choose Create Bootable Rescue Media in the Tools & Utilities menu. You can also run the

Bootable Rescue Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup by

choosing Programs → Acronis → Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup → Bootable Rescue

Media Builder from the Start menu.

2. Select which components of the Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media.

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup offers the following components: