How to create a Bootable Acronis True Image DVD

[NightCrawler]

This is a template.

1. Download and install UltraISO

2. Put your Bootable Acronis True Image CD in the cd-rom drive {create one if you don't have one}.

3. Launch UltraISO and select the cd drive that has the Bootable Acronis True Image CD, you will see a folder and a single text file. Select Bootable from the menu and select Extract boot file from cd/dvd, save the file to say the desktop.

4. Find the myfile.bif you just saved and drag to the top pane, also drag the folder at the bottom and the text file to the top pane. The top pane should have these three files:

a. Recovery Manager folder
b. mycd.bif
c. readme.txt


5. Right click the mycd.bif file and set it as the boot file.


6. You can save the image as an iso or nrg and keep the image as a template for different partitions and different machines. You then add the .TIB file/files you need to recovery a partition and then select the burn button and burn the DVD. Everything is on a single DVD then. I use DVD+RW media so I can format and change them as time goes by.

7. Done

 

[BlueWeasel]

Nice and easy...thanks!

 

[corkyg]

Just puzzled. As a long time TrueImage user (version 7 thru 8, build 826) my question is why? The full restore files fit on much less than a CDR - why waste a DVD disk?

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: corkyg
Just puzzled. As a long time TrueImage user (version 7 thru 8, build 826) my question is why? The full restore files fit on much less than a CDR - why waste a DVD disk?

The restore files are only 25 megs this is true but then you add the backup.tib which can be X amount of gigs. If your C drive goes bad you pop in the DVD, bootup your system with it and the recovery image is on the same DVD.

 

[Bozo]

Or just us this:

http://nuhi.msfn.org/index.html

Bozo

 

[NightCrawler]

Originally posted by: Bozo
Or just us this:

http://nuhi.msfn.org/index.html

Bozo

nlite is a great app but it's not a cloning application.

 

[Bozo]

Sorry, I didn't understand the intent.


Bozo

 

[13Gigatons]

All we need now is a way to span it over several DVD's if the backup image is greater then a 4.7 gig DVD can hold.