Acronis True Image Home is the best system backup and restore program available for home users. The program offers a number of features including scheduled backup, system image backup, email backup, and nonstop backup to protect your crucial data.
You can run Acronis True Image Home even from an emergency rescue CD, DVD, or USB to access all major features of Acronis without actually booting into Windows. This helps you when you have an issue with Windows boot loader or any other startup problems.
To be able to create standalone Acronis True Image Home bootable media (DVD or USB) or bootable disc ISO file, you will need to use Acronis Media Builder tool. In this guide, we will show you how to create a bootable Acronis True Image emergency DVD or USB or ISO file to access Acronis without booting into Windows.
NOTE: We assume that you have already installed Acronis True Image Home on your machine.
1. Run Acronis True Image Home software. Navigate to the main screen.
2. Click Tools & Utilities in the main menu, and then click Rescue Media Build to launch Acronis Media Builder wizard.
3. Once the wizard is launched, click Next button to continue.
4. In the following screen, select the bootable components of the Acronis products to be placed on the bootable media. Simply check the box named Acronis True Image Home to include all available tools in the bootable media. Again, click Next button to proceed to the next step.
5. In this step, bootable media options, you can enter startup parameters for the bootable media. Keep the Command-line parameters box empty and then click Next button to create ISO image or Acronis bootable flash drive.
6. If you want to create a bootable USB with Acronis software on it, select the removable disk in the list (make sure that the USB drive is empty). Or, select ISO image option to create a bootable ISO disc file.
Select the appropriate option and click Next button to continue. If you have selected ISO image, you will be asked to select a location to save the ISO file. And if you have selected USB flash drive, simply click Proceed button in the following screen to start the operation.
7. You are done! If you have created an ISO file, use ISO burner (free) software to burn the ISO file onto DVD. To use Acronis True Image from USB, reboot your machine, enable and USB boot in BIOS.
Michael Stenlund says
In Acronis 2020, there is a problem doing this, therefore I will write a guide on how this is done correctly:
In Microsoft Windows 8 , 10, or later:
1. Open Acronis True Image 2020
2. Click Tools, left side.
3. Open Acronis Media Builder
4. Choose Simple. Make note that even though you have a formated USB drive inserted in your USB port, that “Plug in your External Drive is grey, this is the problem. Please continue reading.
5. Choose ISO File creation, that’s the first choice here.
6. Choose where you woud like to save the file AcronisBootablePEMedia.iso. I recommend the Downloads folder on local disk C.
7. Create the ISO to this folder location by clicking Save and Proceed button. The proceed button is green now.
8. Once the ISO is created right-click the ISO file and choose Open with, Windows Explorer. The disk will now mount as a virtual DVD disc in your “This PC” main computer nav folder.
9. Open This PC in Windows to view your drives.
10. Double-click the DVD disc to explore it, and press Ctrl + A to select all. Next press Ctrl +C to copy all.
11. Open your External USB drive in another window and Ctrl +V to copy all into the harddisk.
Note: Do not create any additional folders in your USB harddisk, and note that the size of the FAT32 partition should be approximately, and not much larger than 2048MB (2GB partition size).
Fileformate: FAT32.
I hope this helped those of you who could not create an external boot disk in Acronis 2020.
Enjoy.
Sincerely,
Michael aka. Exsosus
A true Acronis fan.
Md. Azad says
I already have the acronis iso. Trying to put it on bootable usb
M. says
in acronis true image home 2012 the flash memory does not appears
David B says
I already have the acronis iso. Trying to put it on bootable usb