Transcript Now that you've installed Acronis, there's actually a very important first step that you need to take before even backing up your machine. And that is to create a Bootable Rescue Media. What this wizard does is it creates a bootable CD, or the image of a bootable CD, that you would use in the case where you want to restore from a backup, but your machine won't boot.

In most cases, what you'll do is run through the wizard fairly quickly. The default options are pretty much what you want. I have it create an ISO image. And, in this particular case, that's my only option since this machine has no CD burner.

Once you've created the ISO image, you would then burn it to CD using a tool like Image Burn. In this particular case, it's now asking me where I want to put it and what I want to call it.

I'm giving it a name, Acronis Rescue CD ISO. These are a summary of the options that I've selected. It's a fairly quick process to actually create the image.

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All it's really done is created a 65 megabyte file. Once completed, you can then, as I said, use a tool like Image Burn to write that to CD. I'll actually show that as a separate step later. But, to reiterate, the important take-away here, is before even considering what and how and whether to backup, make sure that you create a bootable rescue media that you would use in the worst case when your machine doesn't boot. Article - August 11, 2009. The ' Series • The first installment in our backing up series is to install backup software. Drajver zvukovoj karti yamaha ymf724 w.

We'll install Acronis TrueImage Home 2009. • After installing the application there's a critical step you need to take first, before even thinking about backing up. • Our first step after installing Acronis and creating rescue media is to create a full backup.

• Now that we've created our first full backup, it's time to let Acronis do it's job automatically - we'll schedule an automatic backup task. • We have our backup program running, now it's time to try restoring a file from that backup. • Your machine has crashed, and the hard disk reformatted or replaced - it's time to restore your entire machine from an image. • If you've been backing up regularly you'll probably have a full backup and a collection of incremental's.

We'll look at how they're used. Acronis TrueImage Home is a cost-effective, easy to use, reliable backup software solution. Bob August 18, 2009 4:36 PM I too have tried to use Acronis on my Toshiba laptop without any sucess. It will not make proper backups on an external drive or my network drive.

Their support personel were unable to solve the problem. In fact they did not even find a discussion thread on their own forum that was slightly helpful for over three months and it had been posted by one of their own personel. I am glad Acronis works for you but I have given up and gone to using Ghost which I use on my desktop computer. Ghost has work perfectly on the Toshiba. I asked Acronis for a refund but they will only keep sending me back to the same support personel that cannot solve the problem. I am not impressed with Acronis.

Snail August 19, 2009 10:01 AM A few questions: is the bootable rescue media for booting into your OS? What specifically is included in this image(entire registry, software settings.)? Can you use a (at least 65 MB) 256 MB or larger USB flash drive to have this image written to and booted from? On my Attache' 1 GB flash drive it has, I think, a partition that is recognized as a CD. On systems which do not have the capability(BIOS or otherwise) to boot from USB and/or Flash drives.would this 'CD' ~partition be a viable option for storing a bootable image? When you write an image on a flash drive and make it bootable, can you write additional information or delete the image? Bracha September 22, 2009 8:20 AM I am looking for your video on 'how to restore an entire system image' using Acronis.

If I remember correctly, you mentioned that there is one available, but I simply could not find it. I am no techee and just received a PC with WinXP and some software already installed, however, I have no access to the installation CDs (not for XP nor for any of the other programs). I would like to find out the steps to creating the DVDs, which will allow me to restore the entire disk drive (all I have is one hard drive with one partition: 'C:') in case of a complete disaster. I would very much appreciate your help on this issue.