Create Acronis bootable USB flash drive

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Create Acronis WinPE bootable disc

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When creating Acronis Bootable Media on a flash drive, Acronis products do not mark partition on the flash drive as active. As a result, one cannot boot from the flash drive with Acronis Bootable Media.
These instructions apply to:
    * Windows Vista
    * Windows Server 2008
   1. Insert your flash drive;
   2. Hit Win-R and type cmd to open a command-line;
   3. Type diskpart to run Windows DiskPart utility:
   4. Type list disk to list all disks attached to the machine:
   5. Type select disk [number] to select your flash drive:
   6. Type clean to remove any formatting from the selected disk:
   7. Type create partition primary:
   8. Type select partition 1 to select the only partition, which you now have on the flash drive:
   9. Type active to mark the partition as active:
  10. Type format fs=fat32 to format the disk in FAT32 (otherwise the drive will not be bootable):
  11. Type assign to assign a drive letter:
  12. Type exit to exit Windows DiskPart utility:
  13. Run your Acronis product;
  14. Pick Tools -> Create Bootable Rescue Media;
  15. Follow all steps of the wizard and select your USB flash drive as media.
Windows XP:
1. Download the Forensic Acquisition Utilities from
http://www.gmgsystemsinc.com/fau/
2. Unpack the downloaded ZIP archive;
3. Place installation file of Acronis product in the same folder where you unpacked the ZIP archive:
4. Open the command-line (Start->run->cmd)
5. Issue the following commands:
cd [drive letter]:\fau\fau.x86
dd if=[drive letter]:\[name of the .dd file] of=\\.\[flash drive letter]: --localwrt
where
[drive letter] – Drive letter and path to the file on your hard disk
[name of the .dd file] – Name of the file you have downloaded on Step 3
[flash drive letter] – Letter of your flash drive that you would like to use as Acronis Bootable Media
Example
cd c:\fau\fau.x86
dd if=c:\atis_8115_s_e.dd of=\\.\e: --localwrt
6. Make sure that the partition is active using Disk Management (Start->Run->diskmgmt.msc);
7. Detach the USB flash drive.
You can now boot your machine from it.