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Can backup image run OS from external drive?

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I've used Acronis at home for years and am now on a trial version backing up some very critical systems at work. My Mac-centric partner asked if the Acronis partition backup on the external USB disk will step in to run the windows computer in case of a hard drive meltdown, and I really didn't know.

I have used Acronis to restore the system to a working hard drive, and have mounted the system image to recover individual files, but have never tried to use my bootable media (cd in my case) to boot the system and then continue to use the computer from the backup disk image if the main internal hard drive is totally dead.

A very basic question I know, but I've been reading lots of posts and instructions on this site and haven't found a concise answer to this. I'm afraid to experiment much on the computers running the Acronis trials.

Thanks!

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You cannot boot the system from the image. You have to restore to do that.