Acronis bootable media and backups on same external drive ?
Hello,
Can i create an Acronis bootable media on and external disk drive and add my backups on the same external disk drive ?
Thank you for your assistance ....


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I would like to make a WD My Passport 1TB bootable, then choose the same target for Backups,
and once a Backup procedure is finished disconnect the external USB-drive for security reasons ...
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Ok, you can do this just be advised that if the drive fails you won't be able to boot it.
You would first need to partition the drive making a small partition at the beginning of the drive for the boot media. About 1 or 2 GB would be sufficient as the boot media data itself will be less than 600 MB. This partition must be in a FAT32 format as the boot media requires that.
You will still need to create your boot media on USB flash drive to start. This is becasue what you have to do is to create the flash drive media, test it to see that it works. You then create a backup of that USB flash drive media. The next step is to restore that backup to the FAT32 partition created on the external drive. You can now test boot to that partition.
The remaining space on the drive can be formated as NTFS and further partitioned if desired or left as one large partition your choice.
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Thank you for your professional advice !
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[quote = Berny]
你好,
我可以在外部磁盘驱动器上创建Acronis可启动媒体,并将我的备份添加到同一个外部磁盘驱动器上?
谢谢您的帮助 ....
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Just know the steps and methods of creating a USB flash drive. I used WIN732 bit system to do a number of times, no problem, just ask the USB flash drive capacity at least 16G or more. Can be used after the other machine to restore.
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