User's Manual

12. Creating bootable media

12.1. Creating Linux-based rescue media

You can run Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition from an emergency boot disk on a bare-

metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows

computer, copying all its data into the backup archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time. To do

so, you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2010

Netbook Edition version installed on it.

If you purchased the boxed product, you already have a bootable CD, because the installation CD

itself is bootable in addition to serving as the program installation disk.

If you purchased Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition on the Web or as a download from

a retailer, you can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a

blank CD-R/RW, a blank DVD+R/RW or any other media from which your computer can boot, such as

a Zip drive.

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a

bootable disc on the hard disk.

If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Suite installed on your computer,

you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk as well.

If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook

Edition installation, you will not be able to use this feature.

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When booting from the Rescue Media, you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3,

ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems.

1. Choose Create Bootable Rescue Media in the Tools & Utilities menu. You can also run the

Bootable Rescue Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition

by choosing Programs → Acronis → Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition →

Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu.