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Acronis 2012 Home Rescue Media Advice

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I have been using Acronis Home 2012 Family edition on 3 home pc's for a while but have only recently had to actually recover my system from an Acronis backup.
A bootable DVD came with the retail pack that I bought and the first time that I recovered my system I booted from this DVD, which loaded Acronis 2012 very quickly, and successfully revovered.
A recent check for updates indicated that there was a more up to date build of Acronic 2012 and I successfully downloaded and activated this on my pcs.
Having updated to the latest version, I used Rescue Media Builder to create what I assumed to be a bootable DVD for the latest version.
I have recently needed to recover my system again and tried using the newly created DVD. The disc seemed to be recognised, with initial flurry of flashing green lights, and a message like Acronis loader or loading... appeared. several minutes later after no sign of further disc activity or progress I gave up on this new bottable DVD and tried the disk that came with my original retail pack. Acronis 2012 loaded swiftly and recovery successfully achieved.

I would appreciate advice on my experience with the Rescus Media DVD that I created after updating Acronis to the latest build:
1a) Was I wrong to assume that it would load a version of Acronis 2012 like the original disk supplied with my pack?
1b) Does it perform different role to originally supplied disk, and if so, what is it used for?

I have since noticed that there is an Acronis Startup Recovery Manager option in tools and utilities. Activating this would seem to give option of hitting F11 on boot to enable me to perform recovery:
2a) Is this an alternative to using the original bootable DVD provided?
2b) Does it effectively perform same role as original DVD?
2c) Are there any downsides/risks associated with activating it?

looking forward to feedback/advice.
Many thanks in advance.

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Not sure but you may solve your issues by using a blank CD-R rather than DVD (whose size is not needed) and create a new Recovery CD.
Hopefully,you did or will register your 2012 serial number into your own Acronis account. This will enable you to download all download files related to the 2012 versions.

1a. Any newer version will (should) load and restore a recent older version. you may have a problem with that specific failed disc.
1b. No differences.
2a. Use a blank CD-R but you can download an ISO bootable download file which can be burnt to CD as an image and it will be the same as the one created via the Create Bootable Image option. This will provide you with an identical new updated bootable Recovery CD.
2b. Yes. No differences.
2c. The use of F11 is an option but it does make changes to your computer regarding the Master Boot Record. My personal suggestion is not to activate F11 unless it is absolutely needed. The CD is still an important and sometimes only tool availble for restoring your system. You must make sure it works before any changes are made to your computer.

Thanks for the feedback - I did register Acronis and all my pcs show Acronis as having been successfully activated.
I will download ISO bootable file as suggested in 2a) and burn to CD-R.
Not keen on making changes to MBR so I will follow your personal suggestion in 2c) and not activate F11. I know that the bootable DVD supplied works in emergency and hopefully the new CD-R, when created, will as well.
Many thanks again.

To burn the iso file to disc.
If using Win 7, use the installed Win7 burner.
If using XP, use a free program such as ImgBurn