Acronis True Image User’s Guide
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10.2 Creating bootable media
In some cases, Acronis True Image can be run only from a special bootable diskette
or CD. Such a case might be if your PC doesn’t boot up normally.
If you’ve purchased the program on a CD, it will already be bootable. You can also
create bootable media during or after the installation.
For this, you will need a CD-R/RW blank, five formatted diskettes (or two for the
safe variant), or any other media your PC can boot from, such as a Zip drive.
Click Create Rescue Media on the toolbar or in the left part of the main window,
or select Create Rescue Media from the Tools menu.
You can also create bootable media without loading Acronis True Image
itself by
selecting
Programs Æ Acronis Æ True Image Æ Bootable Rescue Media Builder from
the
Start menu.
You will see the bootable media wizard that will ask you to select either complete or
safe loader version. The latter doesn't have USB, PC card (formerly called PCMCIA)
or SCSI drivers and is useful only in case the complete version doesn’t work.
After you create a boot disk, identify it and keep it in a safe place.
10.3 Viewing logs
Acronis True Image allows users to view its working logs. They can provide
information about scheduled image creation results, including reasons for failure, if
any. Logs are created only for partition (disk) image creation operations.
To invoke the log window, select Show log on the toolbar or from the Tools menu.
The log browsing window contains two panels: the left one features the log list,
while the right one shows selected log contents.
