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can my bootable rescue media and my disk image be on the same external USB drive?

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For simplicity, is it possible for me to copy my entire windows 10 PC (disk image) onto an external USB flash drive of some kind, with the flash drive also being rescue bootable?

or, do they have to be separate?

 

thanks

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Judson, welcome to these public User Forums.

You can use an external USB HDD or SSD drive as both rescue media and storage, but would not recommend trying this with a USB flash drive or memory stick.

See KB 61639: Acronis True Image: how to create Acronis Survival Kit - for more information on the process.
Also KB 61738: Acronis True Image: Survival Kit disk partition for backups is limited to 2TB on BIOS-booted systems
And Acronis Article:  The Acronis Survival Kit

thanks very much, this is very helpful.

 

I have acronis licenses for 3 computers (3 family members)

 

if I opt to create disk images for each computer, I assume I will need a separate USB external drive for each image, correct?

 

how about the rescue drive? If I opt to create rescue drive separate from the image drive, will I need a flash stick for each computer, or will a single flash stick suffice as the rescue booter for each PC?

thanks-

thanks very much, this is very helpful.

 

I have acronis licenses for 3 computers (3 family members)

 

if I opt to create disk images for each computer, I assume I will need a separate USB external drive for each image, correct?

 

how about the rescue drive? If I opt to create rescue drive separate from the image drive, will I need a flash stick for each computer, or will a single flash stick suffice as the rescue booter for each PC?

thanks-

You can use a single flash drive on multiple computers.  If you create a different folder for each PC on your external disk you can then store backups from the respective PC's to their respective folder.

I responded on using the same recovery media in your post in the Off Topic forum.