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Restoring a "dead" PC

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I have used Acronis for years - love it !
I've just installed Acronis 2020 on my wife's new Windows 10 PC and was wondering how to (if I ever have to) restore an image if the PC's HDD is screwed up ?
I used to be able to do this by booting from the Acronis disk etc etc. but I don't have any Acronis media and anyway the PC doesn't have a CD/DVD drive.
The only instructions I've found so far start with "launch Acronis . . ." which obviously I wouldn't be able to do.
Grateful for any advice please - I find it better to work these things out BEFORE disaster strikes !

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Martin, you need to create either the Acronis Rescue Media on a USB stick (size 2GB min up to 32GB max), or else use the option to create an Acronis Survival Kit on your external USB drive.

The option to create a Survival Kit is only offered when you are creating a new Disks & Partitions (or Entire PC) type backup task and are setting the Destination for the task to a suitable external USB drive that can be used for this purpose.

See KB 61639: Acronis True Image 2019 and 2020: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.

Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems

And Acronis Article:  The Acronis Survival Kit

KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media
KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media
KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media