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 Disk Director Suite 10.0
• Acronis True Image 9.0 Home
• Acronis True Image 10.0 Home
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Windows
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Server for Linux
• Acronis True Image 9.1 Enterprise Server

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

• Acronis True Image 11 Home
• Acronis True Image Home 2009
• Acronis True Image Home 2010
• Acronis True Image Home 2011
• Acronis True Image Home 2012
• True Image 2013 by Acronis
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
• Acronis Disk Director 11 Advanced
• Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
• Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows
• Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux
• Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11

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

• Acronis True Image 2014
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5

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

• Acronis Snap Deploy 5
• Acronis True Image 2015 build 5539

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

• Acronis True Image 2015 build 6055
• Acronis True Image 2016, Acronis True Image Cloud (Release 2016)

See also:

• Acronis Bootable Media displays wrong drive letters
• Difference between Acronis bootable media generated in product and the one downloaded from the website
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Linux-like and Windows-like Disk Representation in Acronis Bootable Media
• Changing Keyboard Language in Acronis Bootable Media
• Keyboard Navigation in Acronis Bootable Media
• Downloading Acronis Bootable Media
• Acronis True Image Home 2010: Creating Acronis Bootable Media with a Backup File
• Acronis True Image Home 2011: Creating Acronis Bootable Media with a Backup File
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10: Creating Acronis Bootable Media with a Backup File
• Acronis Disk Director 11: Creating Acronis Bootable Media
• Starting Acronis product from USB flash drive
• Acronis Bootable Media Types