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Creating a Bootable Rescue Media on USB

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Hi,

I understand i can create a Bootable Rescue Media on a USB drive thru the main program.
And there will be a some files on the Root & Recovery folder.

Will it work if i will to copy all these files to a bootable USB (FAT) drive, instead of creating it form the program ?

Rgds

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A file copy won't work. The drive needs to be bootable.

What type of USB drive is it? Is it a flash drive, hard drive, etc.?

If you provide some specifics there may be a solution. I usually boot the ISO using Grub4DOS since it offers more flexibility than direct booting.

Good evening everyone

I have a problem when I ty to start from a rescue media on USB pen drive .
It shows "Starting Acronos Loader " and after a while shows "unable to find boot partition "
What can I do ? I use ATIH 2012 PP and I've created the pen drive in the way it suposse to be ( I mean using the "rescue media builder")
Thank you in advance

Luis,
You can retry the creation again.
Insert the pen drive.
Create the bootable media selecting the usb drive.

If this still fails, your easiest and best solution would be to use the suggestion offered by MVP MudCrab in the preceding post regarding the use of Grub4Dos. This works well. I have it on several devices.

If you use Grub4Dos, using the steps in step 1 and 3 offers the capabiitiy to have several versions of TrueImage available.

I should know this, but will ask here anyway: can the Grub4DOS installer be run on a USB drive without having to erase the drive? I.e. can you run it on a drive with other files already on it and not lose them?

I have used XBOOT in the past, which is a drag & drop GUI doing much the same as Mudcrab's procedure, but it seems to me that it warns that it will erase all data when writing-out the boot code.

tomf,

http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php

Grub4Dos link wrote:
While it is always recommended to have backups of any important data before making any changes to your drives, installing Grub4DOS is not a destructive procedure. Existing partitions and data on the destination drive should not be erased or corrupted in any way.

My reading comprehension skills are not what they used to be. Further, I am easily distracted by pretty colors and icons. Thanks for indulging me.