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Question about bootdiscs and images with O/S

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I'm failry certain what I want to do is straight forward but wanted to ask.

 

I like several stages of Windows 10 Pro. What I mean by that is this:

 

  • Install Windows 10 Pro
  • Download Acronis
  • Disconnect NIC (so no updates are downloaded)
  • Create image (about 8gb)
  • Connect NIC
  • Do all updates including creators edition
  • Update drivers all around
  • Create image (about 22gb)
  • Install all applications, customize settings, restore data etc. Basically put system in 100% usable status.
  • Create image (about 40gb)

This gives me about 70gb worth of image files.

I place these on a drive i use for my documents (not the system drive) which i have acronis doing a backup of every 7 days to an external drive.

This means I have my backups stored and backed up.

I want to go one step further. Buy a 128gb USB 3.0 thumb drive.

Here's my question.

If I use Acronis to build a bootable drive out of that thumbdrive, I should have plenty of remaining space left to store all those backups on the same drive.

I assume when you boot to a rescue drive it makes a temporary partition on your system drive somehow then runs off that, am I correct?

My question is, if I have the images stored on the same drive as the rescue drive, could I restore those images from that drive?

Not sure if this makes sense. I'm pretty sure I can do this, but wanted to ask before I bother trying it and ordering the thumbdrive because it'll have to be one of the better ones. not these cheapo $36 drives on Amazon that overrun the buffer almost immediately then slow down. So I'm guessing it'll cost $50 for a true high speed drive.

 

EDIT:

FYI when i create the images I use the single version, no schedule settings, not incremental or differential

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JT...welcome to the user forum.

Creating backups of the different stages of a Windows install is a great idea.

However, a 128GB usb thumb drive cannot be used for rescue media.  The largest thumb drive for rescue media is 32 GB.  Please refer to the following thread:

https://forum.acronis.com/forum/acronis-true-image-2016-forum/customer-…

 

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Ahh, now that makes sense. OK then i'll use a 16gb for the rescue disk and put the images on another thumb drive.

As long as Acronis will recognize that other drive as one it can pull images on. Those little 16gb drives are less than $10 now.

 

EDIT:  

and thanks for the welcome. Little surprised i'm just now posting. I've been using Acronis since 7.0 which has to be nearly 15 years ago and was using Ghost before Norton bought them. think that was in 1997

JT, a small portable HDD drive would be better than using a thumb drive and will offer higher capacity at a reasonable cost.

Once you have created your USB Rescue Media, then please test that your computer will boot from it correctly and you can see your internal and external drives.

If you are running ATI 2018, then the Rescue Media Builder tool will create Windows RE media by default rather than using Linux as was the case for all earlier versions.

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That's a good point Steve, and come to think of it I have a 1tb USB 3 external sitting in my closet unused. Just need to make sure Acronis recognizes it. 

But yes I have 2018. I bought 2017 a week before it came out not knowing, so when that happened I got a free upgrade. Worked perfectly!

Thanks!