Making bootable disc backup

Acronis 2011 on 64 bit windows.
I would like to make a bootable backup of my hard drive which contains two partitions. The First is an HP Recovery partition and the second contains the operating system and my programs and files. When I try to make a whole disc backup the make backup bootable option is "grayed" out and I can not do so. How do I make a backup which is bootable.
Second: To be able to recover files individually do I have to make a files backup or can I pick them individually out of a disc backup?
Knew how to do this on old computer with 2010. To my regret that computer dies and I now have to deal with an HP conputer configured as abovee and running Windows 7 x64.


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Ditto here, same problem, but on Win32 (XP SP3). Option to make backup drive (a USB drive) bootable is grayed-out. A workaround is to unplug the backup drive, proceed thru setting up the backup up to where you need to choose a backup location, check the "make bootable" option, THEN plug in the backup drive and browse to that drive to select it.
Seems like a bug...
UPDATE (17-Dec): The workaround only looked like it was working, it doesn't. I did find out why it wasn't working in my case, tho--only FAT drives are eligible, and mine is formatted NTFS.
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Hello all,
Thank you for posting and thank you for your help. I will do my best to assist you.
Gary, I have replied to your question in this post, however I would like to share some additional information with you based on Jonathan's comment.
Jonathan, thank you for finding the time to report this. You are absolutely correct, in order to create a bootable USB drive with the backup, it has to have FAT 32 file system. I will forward this information to our Documentation team so that they reflect this information in our user guide. Currently, from what I can see, current program will not be changed but we will definitely change the documentation in order to reflect this limitation.
Please let me know if you have additional questions.
Thank you.
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