Restoring my computer from a flash drive?
I've been restoring my computer using the boot disk and of course everything works fine but I think things could go faster if Acronis could do the recovery process from a flash drive. But can the software do it?

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In addition to the USB being inserted before you start the media creation:
1) USB flash drive must be "removeable" to the OS. Some flash drives show up as "fixed" disks - not many, but there were a bunch of them to market when Windows 8 came out that were set to "fixed" because manufacturers thought that was the only way Windows 2 go would work
2) USB flash drive must be formatted as FAT32 - it won't detect any that are formatted as exfat or NTFS.
3) It only works with FLASH drives because the are set as removeable so a regular USB hard drive won't work.
There is a work-a-round for #3s though. Create it the recovery media on a USB flash drive first. Then backup the flash drive with Acronis using a "disk" backup. Restore your backup image to the regular USB hard drive and voila.
I do this on a partitioned USB hard drive (1st partition is 2GB for the Acronis recovery media) and the rest is for data and Acronis backups. When you partition like this, then you can safely restore your Acronis recovery flash drive image to the first partition without wipinng the content of the rest of the drive.
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