Choose if you want to save the image to your computer to burn later or use in a virtual machine.
A bootable ISO is an image file of a bootable disc that you can use to start your computer, bypassing the installed operating system. The provides a standalone environment (Acronis Rescue Media) containing all the tools necessary to: Perform bare-metal recovery (restore to new hardware). Clone hard drives. Back up or restore specific partitions. Access files from unbootable drives.
Choose as your target output. Select a local folder or external drive to save the generated .iso file. Click Proceed to finalize the build. Burning the ISO to a USB Drive
Once your bootable USB or disc is ready, you must configure your computer to boot from it rather than your internal hard drive. acronis cyber protect home office bootable iso
Restore a backup made on one computer to a different machine (Universal Restore).
An ISO file is a perfect sector-by-sector copy of an entire optical disc image. In the context of Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (formerly Acronis True Image), the bootable ISO contains a lightweight, self-contained operating system (either Linux-based or Windows PE-based) integrated with the core Acronis backup and recovery software. Key Use Cases
This allows you to explicitly choose between a Linux-based media or a WinPE-based media. It also lets you inject custom drivers (such as specialized RAID or NVMe storage drivers) that your system might require to see your hard drives. Select the destination: Choose if you want to save the image
Always save the ISO file to a secondary location. If your PC dies, you want a spare copy of the ISO stored on your smartphone, a friend's computer, or your cloud storage.
Once inside the Acronis standalone environment, follow these steps to restore a full system image backup: Step 1: Select Your Backup Source
Enter your computer’s BIOS/UEFI settings (usually by pressing F2 or Del at startup) and temporarily disable Secure Boot . Ensure that you flashed the ISO using the GPT partition scheme for modern UEFI machines. 2. NVMe SSDs or RAID Arrays Do Not Appear in Acronis Clone hard drives
Concise summary
Under , click Select and choose your newly created Acronis ISO file.