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making usb flash boot media from windows 7

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I have tried several times and several ways now to make my usb flash drive a bootable media of acronis.
I currently have my version of TI workstation echo installed - ver 9.7.0.8353
taken from the main program file details - as I have yet to run it on windows 7 due to windows warning.
However I am able to run the media creator without warning
and have made boot cd/dvd's with it without problem.

I have been through the disk part method
and have also tried the HP usb flash format tool you can find in various places on the web.

I have managed to make a bootable NTFS flash drive for installing windows 7 onto my netbook using the disk part method
I have managed to make win98 boot using the HP util.

Each time i then use acronis to make my usb into bootable media
I get various problems when I try to boot from it
such as "system missing"

I know there are no problems with the usb flash drive working as bootable as I have booted to both windows 7 setup
and booted to win98 startup
I had previously managed to make a TIWE bootable usb drive
but I can not for the life of me remember the method i used at the time.
I no longer have that usb flash drive as it got damaged
unfortunately i never made an image of that flash drive as i thought i would be able to make another if need as simply as I made the first.

Can anyone help please.

Side note - is there a version of TI WE that does run on windows 7?
not the best way to backup having to boot from the cd/dvd.

(I also own True Image Home 2009 and version 10 plus universal restore for WE if any of those are of help?)

thanks in advance

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Hello Matt,

I understand your concern to create Acronis bootable flash drive but the thing is that neither Acronis True Image Echo Workstation nor Acronis True Image Home 2009 supports Windows 7.

At the moment, the following Acronis products support Windows 7:

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 supports Windows 7 with the following limitations:

  • Mounting backups stored in Acronis Secure Zone is not possible;
  • Mounting backups located on a network share in read/write mode is not possible;
  • The Active Restore feature is not available when restoring a system volume in Windows from a backup stored in Acronis Secure Zone;
  • User accounts generated for Acronis services during the product installation may appear on the Windows 7 logon screen;
  • Acronis Storage Node does not support tape drives. See Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Tape Support in Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.

So first of all I may recommend you upgrade Acronis True Image Home 2009 to Acronis True Image Home 2010 using our online store and Acronis True Image Echo Workstation to Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation.

We currently don’t have instructions on how to create Acronis bootable flash drive with Windows 7 but you can try instructions which apply to Windows Vista. See the following step-by-step instructions.

I will request to create the above mentioned instructions for Windows 7 through our customer listening system and hope that they will appear in the near future. You will be able to find them in our Knowledge Base.

Let me know if you need further assistance.

Thank You.

Matt, I have a Kingston pen drive which has bootable TI2009 and 2010 versions on it. These will boot the Linux version of TI on systems that have W7 installed. I have yet to make a W7 PE version. I basically followed Mudcrab's guides (see GroverH's links). I also have a booting partition of just TI 2009 on my external flash drive. Have you looked at -

Mudcrab Flash guide

Matt

Try GrubDos also mentioned on the Mudcrab site See http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php

I use it to boot my flash drive. I have multiple booting ISO files on the drive both WINPE (Vista and Win 7) and the Acronis Linux Rescue disks and I just select which ones I want.

"Grub4DOS is a boot manager that can be easily installed to a flashdrive or hard drive (internal or external). It allows booting multiple operating systems directly as well as booting into bootable partitions.
For the purpose of this guide, Grub4DOS will be used to setup a flashdrive to boot the Acronis Resuce Media. This can be done by booting to the partition on the flashdrive (as setup by the Acronis Media Builder program) or by directly booting the Acronis ISO file. When you use the ISO method, you can put as many Acronis ISO images as required on the same flashdrive. This allows you to easily be able to boot into True Image Home 9, 10, 11, 2009, Echo Workstation, etc. by just selecting the desired menu entry."

Okay.....so I've been looking at all comments regarding how to boot from an external HD and flash pen. Is there any reason why copying all the files on bootable media, such as a CD, to an external HD or Flash Disk wouldn't work? At boot you would just hit F8 and choose the external HD. And then "off we go". What's wrong with this? If the device is recognized by hitting F8, then what's the problem? I haven't tried it. Should I?

I have Grub4DOS working on a 2GB USB flash drive and a 320 GB USB hard drive, booting multiple ISO's including Linux LiveCD. It works. I'm with Tatou and Colin.

Harold Aucoin,

The files on the CD are not the same as those used on a flashdrive. In addition, the partition on the drive wouldn't be setup to boot into the Acronis media. For a flashdrive, this can be done with Media Builder. For other drives, it requires some manual steps.