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Rescue Media Builder to a USB drive

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I've been able to create a bootable rescue USB key, and that works fine. However I would like to make my USB backup drive where my backups are stored bootable as well. This will allow me to have an "all-in-one" backup drive.

However the Media Builder wont show my USB drive as being an option. Is there a way around this?

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Are you using an actual USB hard drive or a USB flash stick?

With a USB drive this is possible, you can make two partitions, one that boots the Acronis recovery environment and the other that contains the images.

MVP Mudcrab has a guide on how to do this on an external hard drive, "USB Flash", or look at item #5 in Grover's True Image guides (link in left menu bar) which lists all of Mudcrab's guides on this subject.

Colin B wrote:

Are you using an actual USB hard drive or a USB flash stick?

With a USB drive this is possible, you can make two partitions, one that boots the Acronis recovery environment and the other that contains the images.

MVP Mudcrab has a guide on how to do this on an external hard drive, "USB Flash", or look at item #5 in Grover's True Image guides (link in left menu bar) which lists all of Mudcrab's guides on this subject.

I'm using an actual USB hard drive. I have a small 2GB partition that I want to install the resuce disk and make bootable. The data will be on the other partition.

I'm not exactly sure which guide(s) you are talking about. I'm not seeing a "#5" that corresponds in the link on the left

Sorry, my error, it was #4 under Grover's Guides.

I've attached a screen shot of what you are looking for.

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Thanks! Works nicely.

One last question: Is it possible (and how) can I change the USB boot so that it automatically loads Acronis instead of giving me the "Press 1 to continue" menu?

Which guide did you follow? I don't get that with my hard drive version. I think the Grub4Dos version is the one you need.

Ah, I think I know what you need to do.

You need both a USB flash stick and your USB drive.

1. Plug in the USB flash stick.

2. Run the True Image Media Builder and select create environment to USB drive.

3. Run True Image and image the complete flash drive.

4. Plug in the USB hard drive.

5. Restore the USB flash stick image to the hard drive, making sure you have ticked the MBR and Track 0 option.

I have assumed you have already paritioned the hard drive and formatted it as you wish. I normally keep the booting partition to about 200MB, so your restored image will need to be resized to fit.