1537: Acronis Bootable Media

Last update: 19-10-2016

What a bootable media of an Acronis backup software is and what features it offers

Acronis Bootable Media of any Acronis backup product is an exclusive recovery environment for restoring images. Additionally, it allows you to create images, clone hard disk drives, partition new hard disk drives without having to boot into Windows. It has the same graphical interface as when you run your copy of an Acronis backup product under Windows.

The bootable media is based on the Linux operating system and uses Linux drivers for getting access to all hardware devices.

The bootable media boots and runs successfully both on 32 bit and 64 bit machines.

You can run the bootable media of your copy of an Acronis backup product from a CD-R(W) disc, a DVD+R(W), DVD-R(W) a set of floppy diskettes, a USB flash card or a ZIP-diskette.

Backup archives created in Windows can be restored by Acronis Bootable Media and vice versa.

(!) The bootable media of Acronis products (except for Acronis True Image 2015 and newer versions) does not support Wi-Fi network cards

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While working with the bootable media disk letters might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: drive identified in Acronis Bootable Media might correspond to the E: drive in Windows. The reason for this is that Linux has its own rules of drive naming (See Chapter 2.1.1 Naming Convention at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Partition.pdf). This is absolutely normal and there is no need to worry about the difference in drive letters assignment.

Acronis bootable media of the following products is based on Linux kernel version 2.4:

Acronis bootable media of the following products is based on Linux kernel version 2.6:

Acronis bootable media of the following products is based on Linux kernel version 3.8:

Acronis bootable media of the following products is based on Linux kernel version 3.11:

Acronis bootable media of the following products is based on Linux kernel version 3.15:

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