11071: Acronis Bootable Media Types

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Acronis products allow you to create Linux-based bootable rescue media as well as Windows-based bootable rescue media

Description

For general information about Acronis Bootable Media see:

Linux-based media supports most hardware configurations available. If particular hardware is not supported, there are two possible causes for it:

  • necessary drivers have not been added to bootable media yet;
  • hardware vendor does not provide open-source drivers. In this case it is recommended to use Windows-based bootable media.

Acronis products allow you to create two types of Windows-based bootable media - BartPE and Windows PE:

                 BartPE                          WinPE
Licensing Freeware Official Microsoft product
Availability in Acronis products

Can be used with all Acronis products with no additional fee:

  • BartPE plugin for Home products can be downloaded from web site
  • BartPE plugin for Corporate products in included in program installation file
  • Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 and Acronis Disk Director 11 Home: WinPE builder is included in installation file
  • Acronis True Image Home 2010/2011/2012: WinPE builder is available in Acronis True Image Plus Pack
Supported operating systems Windows XP/2000/2003 32Bit Windows XP/Vista/7/ 2003 Server /2008 Server
Adding storage drivers

Storage drivers can be added during bootable media creation.

Option: storage drivers can be added during the bootup process (you need to press F6 and point to a floppy disk with the drivers)

Storage drivers can be added during bootable media creation.

You can also add drivers to a running WinPE image using drvload.exe. See this Microsoft TechNet article.

Installation file size ~3 MB

Windows AIK for Vista: ~992 MB

Windows AIK for Server 2008/Vista SP1: ~1376 MB

See also:
External links http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd799308(WS.10).aspx

More information

Please contact Acronis Customer Central if you have any further questions.

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