Starting Acronis Product from USB Flash Drive

You can do this directly from the product

This article applies to:

Acronis Backup (Acronis Backup & Recovery)
Acronis True Image Home
Acronis True Image 9.1
Acronis True Image Echo
Acronis Snap Deploy
Acronis Disk Director

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 drive or disk can be used for this purpose.

Solution

You can create Acronis Bootable Media on a flash drive from within the product:

If you encounter issues when creating a bootable USB flash drive or disk by means of Acronis Bootable Media Builder you can try one of the workarounds below:

Creating Acronis Bootable Media on a USB Flash Drive (applies to Windows Vista/7/2008/2008 R2)
1. Insert your flash drive;
2. Hit Win-R (Start-Run) and type cmd to open a command-line;
3. Type diskpart to run Windows DiskPart utility:
4. Type list disk to list all disks attached to the machine:
5. Type select disk [number] to select your flash drive:
6. Type clean to remove any formatting from the selected disk:
7. Type create partition primary:
8. Type select partition 1 to select the only partition, which you now have on the flash drive:
9. Type active to mark the partition as active:
10. Type format fs=fat32 to format the disk in FAT32 (otherwise the drive will not be bootable):
11. Type assign to assign a drive letter:
12. Type exit to exit Windows DiskPart utility:
13. Run your Acronis product;
14. Pick Tools -> Create Bootable Rescue Media;
15. Follow all steps of the wizard and select your USB flash drive as media.
Using Grub4DOS to Create a Bootable Drive by MudCrab, Acronis Forum MVP (applies to all Windows OSes)