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Recovery with or without Acronis boot disk ?

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Hello,

When both options are available which is the safest way to proceed with a full recovery,
with or without the Acronis boot  disk ?

 

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Berny, for me the only option to do a full recovery is always using the Acronis Rescue Media (on CD/DVD or USB stick).

I would not recommend doing this type of recovery by starting from within Windows as this then requires that Acronis modify the Windows boot configuration files in order to restart the computer in a temporary Linux environment from which to launch the True Image program - if anything goes wrong after this modification it can leave you with an unbootable system!

With the Rescue Media you still need to test that this will work correctly on your computer system and that when you are booted from the media, that the Acronis application can see both your internal disk drives, and any connected external or network drives when you have stored your backup to be restored.

The standard Rescue Media again uses a Linux kernel environment on the boot media and you may need to disable Secure Boot if you have this enabled on a UEFI system.  If you have your OS drive configured in BIOS to use RAID mode for the SATA controller then the Linux media has no support for RAID, so you would need to either switch the SATA mode to AHCI or build and use / test the alternative Windows PE version of the Rescue Media which can be updated to include RAID support by injecting additional device drivers.

Thank you Steve ...

I was concerned about the OS beeing active. Your above appreciated  intervention and detailed information is really to the point. 

 

I agree with Steve. When recovering disk or partition backups, do so only after booting from the Acronis Rescue Media. File/folder backups can be done either from the Acronis Rescue Media or from the Windows application.

I also agree with Steve and tuttle; the safest and preferred way is to use the recovery media.

Ian