Image of dynamic partitions and automatic unattended restore
I need to create a disk image of a sample PC without Acronis software installed onto a bootable USB stick that I can easily restore on other future PCs before shipping to customers and also ship with the PCs. The Win-7 Prof. sample PC has a hard disk with only dynamic partitions. New PCs will be exactly similar to the sample PC and to simplify recovery for the user I need the restore to run more or less automatic unattended. Is this possible using Acronis True Image 2016?


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Everything but the unattended method is possible with ATIH offline bootable media. If you want unattended, you may have to consider one of the business products (Snap Deploy 5 most likely) but even then, the bootable recovery media is not an unattended method, only from the Snap Deploy server console.
For "unattended" like restores, with bootable media, 1) it would need to be the WinPE version (you could keep your custom image files on the same drive so that it's in the same location too) and 2) you would have to create your own attended script. That's outside of the scope of Acronis though (the script). You'd probably have to research yourself and do some trial and error.
Include a Custom Script in a Windows PE Image
Up to the script part...
1) Create your Acronis Bootable Media as WinPE (download and install Windows 10 ADK first)
2) Once created, take an image, not a clone of your base system with that disk. Save the image to the USB bootable disk so it's on the same one. If, for some reason, this doesn't work, you can grab a USB hard drive and parition 1GB in the front free. Then take an image of your USB bootable disk and push the image of it to that 1GB partition. You can then use the second parition as your storage location for your image
3) Customize your WinPE boot.wim file to get your automated installation script working and configured.
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