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ATI WinRE Recovery flash drive - How Often to Remake?

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Acronis True Image Version 2020, Build 22510
Microsoft Windows 10 Pro (64-bit)
Version 1903, OS Build 10.0.18362
UEFI BIOS

Question: ATI WinRE Recovery flash drive - How often to Remake?

I have both a laptop and desktop running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit with Acronis True Image 2020.

I am unclear if making a single ATI WinRE Recovery flash drive using the Acronis app will work properly on both PCs. My understanding is that the WinRE gets its' drivers from the distribution media i.e. it does not use the current drivers used by the running OS.

Recovery Media - Where Does It Get Drivers?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-update/rec…

If that is the case, it would imply that ATI WinRE Recovery flash drive would run on both PCs assuming they were both 64-bit and used UEFI BIOS.
Is this correct?

Moreover, I would only need to re-make the ATI WinRE Recovery flash drive only when a new update to Acronis occurs.
Is this correct?

Thank you in advance.

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John,

The WinRE media that you can build with True Image allows for previously supplied device drivers to be added.  This is a combination of standard Windows drivers and for OEM PC's any drivers the manufacturer supplied for a system recovery.

Below is a link to a KB article released in 2018 which is the year the switch from Linux based media to WinPE/RE for True Image.  It discusses how the process of drivers works in the Acronis Media Builder tool.

How simple bootable media creation works

John, the frequency of remaking your rescue media will depend on what is being introduced in any new builds and versions following on from the one you used initially.

With ATI 2020, then new media will definitely be required as all earlier media has no support for the new .tibx files used for Disk backup files.

Also, the latest 2020 build 22510 brings a fix for the rescue media not correctly recognising that a BitLocker encrypted drive has been unlocked from the media - which was an issue that affected multiple versions of ATI rescue media.