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Hello,

Where can I find instructions to make a bootable rescue USB key from the rescue disk ISO file (TI 2013 + Disk Director 11)?

Thank you.

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You can create the True Image bootable Rescue Media to USB flash drive using the Rescue Media builder command within True Image, choosing USB instead of CD/DVD.

To include multiple bootable ISOs on a single USB flash drive, I use Xboot:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/xboot-multiboot-iso-usb-creator/

Many thanks!

Edit: the reason I asked is, I couldn't see an USB choice in the utility's menu. After reading your reply and thinking for a few seconds, I connected a blank USB key before launching the utility, and the choice appeared.

Well d'uh! :)
Yeah, if True Image cannot see a USB flash drive (because none is connected) then it would be pointless to offer that option.

Well, if you've ever had cause to use Windows Defender Offline, it does offer the option for a bootable USB key even if none is connected. All you have to do is, connect one before clicking "next" (which it reminds you to do), which IMO makes more sense than the Acronis Rescue Media utility's behavior. But hey, that's only the opinion of a guy who's been using computers for 47 years…

Virtually all my Windows applications don't offer the ability to create or save a file to a device that isn't connected. Obviously it's a designer's choice how to handle this, but Acronis' choice seems consistent with many other Windows apps.

I love my Xboot-created USB flash drive. It lets me have many bootable media apps on a single device: True Image Rescue Media; hardware diagnostics such as memtest; disk partition tools; non-Windows anti-virus apps (highly useful when Windows apps can't remove the culprit); etc.

tuttle wrote:

Virtually all my Windows applications don't offer the ability to create or save a file to a device that isn't connected.

Because it is obvious that a file can not be saved to something that doesn't exist. And everyone knows that Windows CAN save a file to a USB stick. This example or scheme is misleading with TI. It is a bad decision to use the same approach when a user doesn't know if TI can build a bootable rescue medium with/on USB or not. USB should be presented as choice and then ask for the stick to connect. And I don't need 47 years in computers to know this is the correct and only way to do it.

I encourage you to suggest that to Acronis.

@tuttle: I agree very much about the last part of your reply, and I thank you for calling my attention to that little gem of an utility. But, I still think the USB option should be offered even when no USB key is currently connected, and like Techland I find the Acronis choice misleading. The best proof of that is this very conversation ;-)

Some design issues are not right or wrong, but decisions of choice and preference. As you have a different preference from the designers, I encourage you to suggest that to Acronis. Posting here will not reach Acronis.

I'll do that, thanks for the suggestion.