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2. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot record (MBR) with its own
boot code. If you have any third-party boot managers installed, you will need to reactivate them after the
Startup Recovery Manager has been activated. For Linux loaders (e.g. LiLo and GRUB), you might consider
installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup
Recovery Manager.
If a failure occurs, turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the "Press F11 for Acronis
Startup Recovery Manager" message. This will start a standalone version of Acronis True Image
Home 2011 that differs only slightly from the complete version.
9.2 Creating bootable rescue media
In this section
Acronis Media Builder ............................................................................ 160
Creating BartPE disc with Acronis True Image Home 2011 ................... 165
Creating WinPE-based rescue media ..................................................... 167
9.2.1 Acronis Media Builder
You can run Acronis True Image Home 2011 from an emergency boot disk on a bare-metal system or
a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer,
copying all its data into the backup by imaging the disk one sector at a time. To do so, you will need
bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 version installed
on it.
If you purchased the boxed product, you already have a bootable CD, because the installation CD
itself is bootable in addition to serving as the program installation disk.
If you purchased Acronis True Image Home 2011 on the Web or as a download from a retailer, you
can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder. For this, you will need a blank CD-
R/RW, a blank DVD+R/RW or any other media from which your computer can boot, such as a USB
flash drive.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disc on
the hard disk.
If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Suite installed on your computer,
you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk as well.
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