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How to create a bootable external USB drive with True Image?

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How to create a bootable USB external drive with True Image?

Hello,

I have a new external USB drive that I will be using for Acronis True Image "partition" backups. If my computer crashes, I would like to be able to boot from this drive, and then restore from any of the images available.

How can I do this? When I click the "Create Bootable Media" button, it does not list my USB drive as a destination option. (I confirmed it was formated as a primary partition using Fat32.)

Any ideas?

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The create bootable media only works for USB flash drives, not USB hard disk drives, or for DVD/CDs.

You can create a bootable USB disk with Grub4DOS. See here:
http://themudcrab.com/acronis_usbharddrive.php

I have two separate small hard drives with partions. I want to copy/transfer select partitions from both drives to one larger drive to be used as my primary drive in the computer. I have True Image Home 2011. How can I do this?

You have to create a disk and partition backup of each partition (check your partitions in windows disk management so that you make sure you don't ignore any hidden partition, like the system reserved partition on win 7 systems), validate your backups and then:
- boot on the recovery CD on the computer you want to restore to,
- restore each partition at a time. First the disk that contains the system partition. This will allow you to resize your partitions as you precisely want. Mark active the partition that was active before (probably C:\syste,)
- boot on a windows recovery console, installation or repair CD/DVD to repair the startup

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have you tried ATI backup & recovery Win 10 installed on SSD drives?

why doesn't ATI support creating NTFS formated bootable media to accomodate larger backup TIB file?

I used the Grub4Dos method listed above on a 1tb external HHD. I created 2 partitions on the drive. One is a 20gb FAT32 partition for booting with G4D and the other large partition is formatted NTFS to allow for large disk image files. I can now boot off the drive and select images from it as well.