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8.2.1.6 How to create a bootable USB flash drive
You can create a bootable USB flash drive containing a standalone Acronis True Image Home 2012.
This may be handy, for example, if your notebook does not have an internal CD/DVD-drive.
You will need a USB flash drive with a capacity of 256 MB or more. The drive must be formatted in
FAT16 or FAT32 file system.
To create a bootable USB flash drive, attach the drive to a USB port. Start Acronis Media Builder and
then select the drive as the destination for the rescue media creation. Then follow the Media Builder
wizard steps. For more information on creating the media see How to create bootable media.
If Acronis Media Builder does not recognize your USB flash drive, you can try using the procedure
described in an Acronis Knowledge Base article at http://kb.acronis.com/content/1526.
8.2.2 Creating BartPE disc with Acronis True Image Home 2012
BartPE (Bart Preinstalled Environment) is a bootable Windows CD/DVD created from the original
Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD. The current version of Acronis True
Image Home 2012 does not have a plug-in for a preinstalled environment based on Windows Vista
and Windows 7.
The main advantage of BartPE is that it uses Windows drivers and has a Windows-like graphical user
interface. It also provides for adding any storage drivers at startup in the same manner as when
installing Windows on the hard drive (by pressing F6 and inserting a diskette with the drivers).
Applications are installed into BartPE in the form of plug-ins and the Acronis True Image Home 2012
plug-in can be included into the BartPE plug-in tab.
If you do not have the boxed version of Acronis True Image Home 2012, you will need to download a
separate installation file from your Acronis account:
 Go to https://www.acronis.com/my;
 Log in;
 Register the serial number for your copy of Acronis True Image Home 2012 (if it is not registered
yet);
 Click My Products & Downloads;
 Expand Acronis True Image Home 2012 item;
 Click on Free Plugins tab, then click on BartPE Plugin. This will start the download of the plugin.
Install the plug-in as follows:
1. Double-click on the downloaded file to start installation.
2. Having finished the installation, you can proceed with creating a BartPE CD/DVD with Acronis
True Image Home 2012 plug-in.
The below description is based on PE builder version 3.1.10a.
To create a BartPE CD with the Acronis True Image Home 2012 plug-in follow the instructions below:
 Download the PE builder using link http://nu2.nu/pebuilder/download/ and install it;
Go to the Acronis True Image Home 2012 installation folder. (The default folder is C:\Program
Files\Acronis or C:\Program Files\Acronis\Media Add-ons). Rename the BartPE folder to Acronis.