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Update Your Acronis Survival Kit - wants to reformat the drive

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Can someone help with this please? I've just updated Acronis True Image to version 25.6.35810 and it's telling me to update my Acronis Survival Kit. I have a separate disk attached which contains all my backups and a partition with the previous bootable drive. 

After I click on the link and then 'Update Media" it returns this message: "Acronis True Image couldn’t create the media on this drive without formatting. Do you want to format the disk and try again? All data on the disk will be erased." I'm confused about this as it had already created a partition and bootable area on the drive before. 

I don't want to reformat the disk completely as a) I'd lose my existing back-up which will take hours/days to recreate and b) I have a lot of other information on the drive that I don't want to lose. 

If I don't update the survival kit, what does that mean for my backups? And how can I go about getting around this issue? 

Thanks! 

 

 

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Dave, welcome to these public User Forums.

I would suggest ignoring the message and leaving your Survival Kit as it is.

You can update the SK drive very easily manually without any need to reformat it etc!

The method is as follows:

Use the normal Acronis Rescue Media Builder tool and select to create this as a .WIM file.

Make sure that your SK partition has been allocated a Windows drive letter and is visible in Explorer.

In Explorer, open the \sources folder of the SK partition and delete the existing boot.wim file you see there.  Now, copy the new rescue media .WIM file to the \sources folder and rename it to be boot.wim.

That is all.

Thanks ever so much for this reply Steve. Haven't had an opportunity to try it yet but appreciate your clear instructions.

I failed to mention I'm using a Mac, which obviously makes a difference. I'm hopeful I can work out what to do from your Windows instructions - unless you also know how it works on Mac OSX and can make it even easier to understand!

 

Dave, sorry - I have no experience with this subject on the Mac, so don't know if the same methods can be used or not?  I would guess that the place to start would be to look at any of your existing ATI rescue media and see if these even use a format that is similar to Windows PE and contain a .WIM file??

Thanks again Steve. That's a shame but I'll have a look and see what I can work out. I appreciate you taking the time to help.