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What media do you use to create a bootable disc?

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I bought True Image with Plus Pack in order to transfer the entire contents of my current laptop onto a new one but I don't understand what I can use to create a bootable backup. I intended to use an external hard drive but can't because it uses NTFS not FAT file system. My own USB stick is too small and I can't find one big enough for less than £100. And I would need a very large number of DVDs - and Acronis seems to recommend not using them if you would need more than 3 to fit them on. Any help would be very greatly appreciated.

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I'm not at home, so this will be brief.

You can do the following - partition your external drive so that you have a small 500 MB partition, the other partition will be for your images.

The 500 Mb partition will contain the recovery software.

Either download the recovery ISO from your account or using True Image make a recovery ISO.

See this Guide by Mudcrab as listed in Grovers Guides.

http://www.themudcrab.com/acronis_grub4dos.php

**edit**

You could if you wanted have the recovery media on a small USB stick and all your images on your external drive, so long as your PC can boot from USB you would eb able to recover images this way as well.

Here is the other guide from Mudcrab, it does refer to TI 9, but, i have used it with TI 2011, not with 2013 as yet.

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/supportfiles/acronis_bootable_usb_hd.pdf