Drag the BackupX.tib file to the upper panel to add it to the image (where X is the highest number).Right click on the Recovery Manager folder and select Hide/Unhide.Insert blank CD-R/RW (do not remove after CD is created) Click on Create Bootable Rescue Media.Grab a cup of coffee or a beer or something.At the Image Archiving Splitting screen, select Fixed Size.

Acronis will complain that it's not safe. Select Maximum Compression to ensure that the image fits on the disc. Create image of the partition you want to back up (most likely your system partition) and save it to a location on your hard drive.Some blank media (CD-RW, DVD-RW recommended).

Free space on your hard drive equal in size to your hard drive image.CD/DVD Burning software (if your image editing software doesn't support burning).UltraISO (Or other image editing software).If you're going to use DVD-R's, follow the green text.

If you are going to be creating your backup image on CD-R's, follow the blue text. That way, if I had to replace the hard drive in my computer, I could simply pop in the CD/DVD and be back to everything exactly the way I wanted it. I wanted a bootable CD/DVD with the image of my hard drive on it. Acronis has the ability to write the image to a CD/DVD if you have UDF packet writing support (Nero InCD or the like). I was digging around on the Acronis website and couldn't find what I wanted. How to create a CD/DVD based image of your hard drive with Acronis True Image

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