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From: DL on 24 Feb 2010 14:37
The Acronis bootable rescue media is designed to boot from, obviously, then
use its tools to recover the image you have stored on your external drive.
You can also boot from the Acronis cd, then recover

"Patti Barden" <patti(a)freeola.com> wrote in message
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> Running XP Sp3, OE6, IE8
> I recently bought an external hard disk which is attached to my desktop pc
> with USB.
> I also have a program called Acronis which is supposed to copy or clone,
> backup, etc.
> It has you create a Bootable Rescue Media Builder which I put on a USB
> key.
>
> My idea was to copy my entire pc disk to the external hard disk and then
> periodically
> back it up and if my pc went (it is old) I could restart from my external
> hard disk.
>
> In talking with a guy who owns a computer shop, he tells me I cannot
> reboot from a
> USB. He insists that is the case. If so I have been wasting a lot of time
> trying to
> insure I don't have to reinstall everything or lose my data.
>
> Perhaps I should just copy my data and figure I will have to reinstall all
> the programs,
> settings, etc.?
> I am getting more confused.
> Patti
>


From: Unknown on 24 Feb 2010 15:06
The subject is whether or not you can boot from USB.
"DL" <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The Acronis bootable rescue media is designed to boot from, obviously,
> then use its tools to recover the image you have stored on your external
> drive.
> You can also boot from the Acronis cd, then recover
>
> "Patti Barden" <patti(a)freeola.com> wrote in message
> news:%23U%23$2ZVtKHA.4796(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Running XP Sp3, OE6, IE8
>> I recently bought an external hard disk which is attached to my desktop
>> pc with USB.
>> I also have a program called Acronis which is supposed to copy or clone,
>> backup, etc.
>> It has you create a Bootable Rescue Media Builder which I put on a USB
>> key.
>>
>> My idea was to copy my entire pc disk to the external hard disk and then
>> periodically
>> back it up and if my pc went (it is old) I could restart from my external
>> hard disk.
>>
>> In talking with a guy who owns a computer shop, he tells me I cannot
>> reboot from a
>> USB. He insists that is the case. If so I have been wasting a lot of time
>> trying to
>> insure I don't have to reinstall everything or lose my data.
>>
>> Perhaps I should just copy my data and figure I will have to reinstall
>> all the programs,
>> settings, etc.?
>> I am getting more confused.
>> Patti
>>
>
>


From: Tim Meddick on 24 Feb 2010 15:38
This is by no means a "fact"!

Whether or not you can boot from a USB source depends on the PC's BIOS and is not
some sort of "golden rule".

Just because most PCs are not able to, still doesn't mean you are right in saying
that...

==

Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London. :-)




"Peter Foldes" <okf22(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> You cannot boot from an external USB drive or any external drive. Your computer guy
> was correct in advising you
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "Patti Barden" <patti(a)freeola.com> wrote in message
> news:%23U%23$2ZVtKHA.4796(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Running XP Sp3, OE6, IE8
>> I recently bought an external hard disk which is attached to my desktop pc with
>> USB.
>> I also have a program called Acronis which is supposed to copy or clone, backup,
>> etc.
>> It has you create a Bootable Rescue Media Builder which I put on a USB key.
>>
>> My idea was to copy my entire pc disk to the external hard disk and then
>> periodically
>> back it up and if my pc went (it is old) I could restart from my external hard
>> disk.
>>
>> In talking with a guy who owns a computer shop, he tells me I cannot reboot from a
>> USB. He insists that is the case. If so I have been wasting a lot of time trying
>> to
>> insure I don't have to reinstall everything or lose my data.
>>
>> Perhaps I should just copy my data and figure I will have to reinstall all the
>> programs,
>> settings, etc.?
>> I am getting more confused.
>> Patti
>>
>

From: glee on 24 Feb 2010 16:31
"Patti Barden" <patti(a)freeola.com> wrote in message
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> Running XP Sp3, OE6, IE8
> I recently bought an external hard disk which is attached to my
> desktop pc with USB.
> I also have a program called Acronis which is supposed to copy or
> clone, backup, etc.
> It has you create a Bootable Rescue Media Builder which I put on a USB
> key.
>
> My idea was to copy my entire pc disk to the external hard disk and
> then periodically
> back it up and if my pc went (it is old) I could restart from my
> external hard disk.
>
> In talking with a guy who owns a computer shop, he tells me I cannot
> reboot from a
> USB. He insists that is the case. If so I have been wasting a lot of
> time trying to
> insure I don't have to reinstall everything or lose my data.
>
> Perhaps I should just copy my data and figure I will have to reinstall
> all the programs,
> settings, etc.?
> I am getting more confused.
> Patti

I could have sworn we went over this before, but maybe it was someone
else.

You can make the Acronis Rescue Media on a CD or on a USB stick (key).

To use the Rescue Media, you must set your Boot Options in the BIOS
setup of the computer to boot first from the media you are
using...either CD drive or USB memory media.

Your computer BIOS must have the option to boot from USB memory media in
order to use Rescue Media on your USB key.

Your external hard drive, if you are using Acronis True Image to make
images of your hard drive, will be holding Acronis True Image image
files. You CANNOT boot the computer using the image files (which have a
..TIB file extension). You must boot the computer with your Rescue
Media, then in the Acronis program that starts from that media, you can
RESTORE your image from the external hard drive TO your internal
computer hard drive. Once an image is successfully restore to the
internal hard drive, then you can boot from your internal hard drive
again.

It is a moot point whether or not an external hard drive is bootable.
Your external hard drive, if it contains True Image backups, will not of
itself be bootable ....as explained above, it contains only image files
to be used for restoring to the internal drive. The image file is just
that, and exact image of the entire hard drive and everything on it at
the moment the image was made. If you are periodically using Acronis to
do an incremental update to the image, then it will contain multiple
images, updating the original.
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
A+
http://dts-l.net/

From: DL on 24 Feb 2010 18:25
And use the Acronis clone file to do so

"Unknown" <unknown(a)unknown.kom> wrote in message
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> The subject is whether or not you can boot from USB.
> "DL" <notvalid(a)spoofaddress.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:eCFY5iYtKHA.5940(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> The Acronis bootable rescue media is designed to boot from, obviously,
>> then use its tools to recover the image you have stored on your external
>> drive.
>> You can also boot from the Acronis cd, then recover
>>
>> "Patti Barden" <patti(a)freeola.com> wrote in message
>> news:%23U%23$2ZVtKHA.4796(a)TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Running XP Sp3, OE6, IE8
>>> I recently bought an external hard disk which is attached to my desktop
>>> pc with USB.
>>> I also have a program called Acronis which is supposed to copy or clone,
>>> backup, etc.
>>> It has you create a Bootable Rescue Media Builder which I put on a USB
>>> key.
>>>
>>> My idea was to copy my entire pc disk to the external hard disk and then
>>> periodically
>>> back it up and if my pc went (it is old) I could restart from my
>>> external hard disk.
>>>
>>> In talking with a guy who owns a computer shop, he tells me I cannot
>>> reboot from a
>>> USB. He insists that is the case. If so I have been wasting a lot of
>>> time trying to
>>> insure I don't have to reinstall everything or lose my data.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I should just copy my data and figure I will have to reinstall
>>> all the programs,
>>> settings, etc.?
>>> I am getting more confused.
>>> Patti
>>>
>>
>>
>
>


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