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Cannot make USB stick bootable

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Hello,

using acronis2014 to make an USB-stick bootable I get the message that the stick is in a format that is not supported. The stick is formated as exFAT (Kingston Data Traveler). It says I should format it with FAT and asks, if it should be formated. If I ask Acronis to do that, it again comes with exFAT and refuses to work.

What is wrong?

Also, this is a 64GByte USB3 stick. With 22 GByte still free, I get the message that a 6GByte-acronis-backupfile is too large to copy. Data rate is only 14MB/s.

Best wishes

Hermann-Josef

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FAT format will not address beyond a 32GB disk. Get a smaller disk 32GB or less for creating boot media.

Thank you for the reply.

It is not FAT but exFAT and this is the standard setting for the stick, so I would assume that it should be able to address the full 64GByte (I could write 42 GByte onto it). Question is, if Acronis can deal with exFAT.

Hermann-Josef

Problem is not Acronis, it is boot media which is Linux based which really makes no difference. The boot media will only run on an FAT medium. FAT is limited to 32 GB maximum. Again, get a smaller drive to work with.

Is it possible using acronis home12, to backup my usb only SSD laptop.  I have tried to make a bootable usb version of acronis

by producing an ISO image of the acronis cd.  I have formatted the usb fat32.  The boot process fails when I try to use acronis stand alone from the usb stick.

Regards.

Please see KB document: 23667: Acronis True Image Home 2012: Creating Acronis Bootable Media which shows how to make a bootable USB Rescue Media device - this should be done using the Acronis bootable media builder as shown in the document.

You will need to check with your laptop documentation on how to make any changes to the laptop BIOS or EFI configuration to allow it to boot from the USB media stick, and once it does boot make further checks to see if the ATIH 2012 media can detect and support your SSD drive given that this is now 4 years old.