Image not detected in USB drive

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Hi.

We created an image of a PC successfully on an external USB hard disk. This image can also be detected via the standalone utility.

However, when we transferred this image (of size 20GB) to a removable 32GB USB drive (the USB stick variety, not the external USB hard disk variety), the standalone bootable utility fails to detect this image. It does detect the drive itself being plugged in/out of the PC but it does not detect that there's a .tib file in the USB drive at all. Any ideas?

Fri, 05/30/2014 - 12:51
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Ok, so the USB drives of higher capacity (32GB) or above have weird issues. We tried SanDisk USB drives and they only showed up as removable drives not as removable USB drives, which prevented them from being used as bootable drives. We also tried PNY drives and the standalone utility was not detecting the image in the drives at all. We finally bought cheap Toshiba 32GB drives which thankfully worked. They were detected as normal USB drives and we were also able to boot up and load images in them, which were detected by the Acronis standalone utility.

Moral of the story: USB drives have weird firmware issues which prevent you from doing imaging work. I'd recommend buying a sample from each manufacturer and testing them out fully by booting and loading images.

Mon, 06/02/2014 - 14:32