Click and locate your .tib archive file on your external drive or network share.

: Restore entire hard drive structures to brand-new, unformatted storage drives.

When burned to a physical CD or deployed to a bootable USB flash drive, this medium allows the computer to bypass the main hard drive during startup. It runs entirely within the system's volatile memory (RAM), granting you full access to local storage drives, external backups, and network shares to execute bare-metal restores. Primary Use Cases for the Recovery Disk

: Log in to the Acronis Customer Portal, register your serial number if you haven't already, and look for "Bootable Media" under the "My Products & Downloads" section.

Enter your computer’s BIOS setup utility during startup. Temporarily change your SATA configuration mode from AHCI or RAID to IDE or Compatibility Mode . Perform your backup or recovery operation, and remember to change the BIOS setting back to AHCI before booting into Windows. Inability to Boot on Windows 10 or Windows 11 PCs

If you need help setting up your legacy backup system, please share:

To ensure broad compatibility, Acronis made an "ISOLINUX" version of the boot CD available for registered users to download from their Acronis accounts. For those without the software installed, creating the ISO was also possible using the trial version. The bootable media can be written to if your computer supports booting from them.

If your target machine lacks an optical drive, you can write the ISO to a USB flash drive using Rufus: