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True Image 2018 - bootable drive size issue

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Sorry if this has been asked/answered I have searched but found nothing.

So using True Image 2018 on a Bootable USB 1TB Hard drive, which is partitioned at 10gb for boot and rest for image storage. Works flawlessly!!!

Wanted to change that to a 2TB drive to hold more backup "tib" images. I set it up 100% the same except of course the 2nd partition for image storage is much larger. When booting into the program, whether I am in backup or restore I can not see that 2nd partition.

I even shrunk that 2nd partition down to the same size as my 1TB drive and left the rest of the size unallocated and still does not see it.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance

 

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Joe, welcome to these User Forums.

I am not aware of any reason why your 2TB drive should give any different results to your 1TB drive assuming that both have been setup in the same way.

One comment, 10GB for the boot partition is much larger than needed or would be used.

With ATI 2019, Acronis introduced the ability to create a Survival Kit which is effectively what you are doing here.  For the Survival Kit, ATI creates a 2GB FAT32 partition at the start of the external USB drive where it then writes either the Linux rescue media code (for Legacy/MBR systems) or writes WinPE rescue media code (for UEFI/GPT systems).

The main limitation for the Survival Kit is that Legacy/MBR systems can only see up to 2TB due to restrictions in MBR partitions.

My own personal approach for my external bootable drives has been to create a 2GB FAT32 partition, assign a drive letter to this, then I have used the MVP Custom ATIPE Builder script to write WinPE rescue media to the drive FAT32 partition.  You should be able to use the standard Acronis Rescue Media Builder tool to do the same too.

Hello Steve,

I took a look at the "Survival Kit" that you mentioned, that looks like you have to have the ATI software installed on the PC.

My setup is that I have X amount of Dell PC's in groups of different model's and I am making a base image of each model to fall back on incase of hardware/software failure. 

I was using a legacy version of ghost but the new Dell models are no longer using Legacy and forcing UEFI. So I am trying to use ATI2018 to create these new images so I if I have a failure, I can just plug in my external 2TB drive boot to ATI, grab a base image and reimage the drive to get the PC back up ASAP. 

I do not really want to install software on each PC, I would want the ext HD to have all the software to create and restore images. Like I said ATI 2018 Bootable Rescue Media is working on a 1TB, I wanted to upgrade that drive to a 2TB and that is where I ran into trouble by it not seeing the 2nd partition on the drive.

Joe, you would only need to have ATI installed on one of your computers for the purpose of creating the Survival Kit or the equivalent of this.

I have used a bootable external USB HDD over several versions of ATI where originally I used to create a bootable USB stick with the rescue media, make a backup image of this, then restore that image to a small 2GB partition on the HDD.  More recently I haven't needed to make the backup image and restore it, as creating the 2GB FAT32 partition on the HDD then assigning a drive letter to it has allowed me to give that drive letter to either the main Rescue Media Builder program or else use it with the MVP Custom ATIPE builder script.

All of the ATI rescue media is capable of booting in both Legacy and UEFI modes.

Hi Steve,

Thats a nice idea...making the ext usb-HDD backup drive bootable...don't know why I never thought about it!  As I use a 6TB ext USB HDD for storing my backups covering several PC (shared space), some of my images (from win7 pcs are from ATI V2016, newer pcs may use ATI 2017, 18 etc). 

In your case, if I had an existing bootable USB external storage drive that had for example a small boot partition with ATI 2017, and I later wanted to update that to a newer ATI version, would I be able to replace the ATI boot image with a newer ATI version bootimage without losing the TIB files stored on the USB drive...that being a a large NTFS partition?

Robert, I have updated the ATI rescue partition on my HDD several times since creating it without any impact on the remainder of the drive / contents.  I keep a drive letter assigned to the ATI FAT32 partition and simply point the MVP Custom builder script to create the new media on that drive.