Knowledge Base

You can start an Acronis product from a USB flash drive, if the USB flash drive is formatted as removable media

This article applies to:

• Acronis True Image 9.0 Home
• Acronis True Image 10.0 Home
• Acronis True Image 11 Home
• Acronis True Image Home 2009
• Acronis True Image Home 2010
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux
• Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
• Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server
• Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows
• Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 (all editions)
• Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0
• Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0

Introduction

Any of the listed Acronis products can be run on a bare-metal or unbootable computer. To do this, it is necessary to create Acronis Bootable Media. A USB flash card can be used for the purpose.

Solution

1. If you would like to create Acronis Bootable Media on a flash drive in Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, please see:

   • Creating Acronis Bootable Media on a USB Flash Drive

2. If you would like to create Acronis Bootable Media on a flash drive in Linux distribution, please see:

   • Creating Bootable Media in Acronis True Image Server for Linux

3. If you would like to create Acronis Bootable Media on a flash drive in Windows XP or other Windows operating systems, please see:

   • Creating Acronis Bootable Media on a USB Flash Drive Using SYSLINUX

More information

If you would like to know how to back up data on a USB flash card, please see Backing Up Data Stored on USB Flash Drive.

For additional information on what Acronis Bootable Media is and what types of it are supported please see Standalone Version of Acronis Backup Software.