making recovery CD with Acronis

I bought the Aconis True Image 11 so that I could make a Recovery CD for my home built unit. I made a image of the C drive and saved it on my D drive. I tried to understand the instructions for making a bootable Recovery CD, but I can't make one with boot up and install the image. I like the way Ghost did it before Norton messed with it. Does anyone know the procedure for making a bootable recovery CD with Acronis? I googled the internet but I didn't seem to understand those either, at least it never worked.
The image is only 4.30 gigs so it should burn on a DVD CD.

 

Swedeman

I use Acronis version 9, which works fine for my XP / IDE drives. Hopefully version 11 has not changed that much.
First off, if you purchased the Acornis on CD, this can be used as a rescue disk. If you purchased a web copy and have Acronis installed on your computer, do the following (per my version 9 view).
Load Acronis, select TOOLS
From Drop down menu select Create Bootable Rescue Media

Follow provided directions.

Once above is done, close Acronis, REMOVE CD from drive.
Restart computer and load BIOS. Check your boot order.
You need to check / change your Boot order. Set your CD to Boot BEFORE your system drive. Save any changes.
Insert your Rescue CD into player - Restart your computer.
Your computer will now load from CD, not your system drive / Windows. You will have the same Acronis view you are familiar with when creating your image files. This time choose RECOVERY option and following the directions. You will be selecting an image file from your (D) partition (source) and RESTORING to your (C) drive (target).
With luck .. Acronis will now restore your C drive from the image file. If you are running XP with IDE drives I would not expect any problems. If you are running SATA drives and / or Vista you may run into some road blocks.
Caution one - Be sure your image file was created with the same version / any online updates as the Rescue disk/Acronis programs. If not, Acronis will refuse the image/can not read/corrupted ... learned the hard way. I created a new Rescue disk to reflect Acronis applied updates I had installed on my computer and problem was fixed, image files were accepted.
Good luck

I will be off line for about 15 hours.

 

Thanks Dennis L for your reply. I forgot to mention that I'm running XP home with PATA drives. I've already done what you've suggested. I've restored my image a couple of times already using that method ( I like to experiment with XP and programs). What I was hoping to do was make a bootable recovery CD that will run by itself and load the image straight from the CD. I've tried loading the Drive Image folder that Acronis created along with the Image on a CD using Roxio's Easy CD and DVD creator (version 6) using the "create bootable CD" option pointing to the Image Folder that Acronis created. It burns okay, but it won't run automatically when I try to boot up with it. Would like to avoid the problem you ran into after updating Acronis.
I bought the CD, didn't download the program from internet. I also bought the Norton Ghost version 12 and it doesn't seem to have the old ability to burn a recovery CD like it use to with a ".ghs" image. I use to have Ghost version 7 and use to burn recovery CD's all the time. It created a bootable floppy to use to create a bootable CD burning the .ghs image to a CD. I don't have that program anymore, lost it.
Hope I'm making sense.

 

I'm not aware of Acronis offering self booting DVD's which contain image file. My preference is to minimize CD/DVD media for critical backups. I generally never have less than a dozen images files sitting on network drives internal and external (per computer).

 

I have fpound Acronis tech support by telephone to be absolutely outstanding. Call them and they'il walk you through the process at no cost. They'll hang with you till you get it right.

 

Thanks to both of you for your input. I guess I'll give them a call. I just assumed when I bought it that it had that feature available.