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Rescue flash drive with and ithout PE

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I created emergency rescue flash drive with and without PE.  I have been routinely use simple resuce flash drive for many years in the past.

I currently use 2017 Acronis True Image under Windows 10.  I expereinced too many failure in restore with resuce flash drive. including emergency bootable CDs too.

Recently, someone in this  forum suggested to try PE-based rescue Flashdrive.   Al most of all tib files I creasted  and stored in a separate hard drive fialed in restore with bootable flashdrive.

When I tired with PE based flashdrive, Bingo!   No problem with restore.

I wonder why.   Now, I decded to use PE-based bootable disk for restore.

Could somebody explain why?   Thansk.

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Jorge, there should be no difference in using the standard (linux based) Rescue Media or using the WindowsPE Rescue Media as far as doing restores with the offline Acronis application, provided that all your disk drives and related hardware are being recognised correctly.

The core difference between the two types of Rescue Media is just the OS being used to launch Acronis - so the standard media uses a small Linux kernel / distribution which has generic support for various hardware and can run on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, but doesn't have support for RAID and may not recognise some of the very newest hardware devices.

The Windows PE media is really using a stripped down version of Windows OS - the version depends on which Windows ADK is used to build the PE media, i.e. this can be Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 but the recommendation is to use the Windows 10 ADK which can be installed on all these versions of Windows.

Windows PE media created by ATIH is 64-bit only, but you can create both 32-bit and 64-bit media using the MVP Tool - Custom ATI WINPE Builder script.  My own preference is to use WinPE media and I have both 32 & 64 bit versions made on USB sticks which work very well.