Monday, July 6, 2009

Ripping a Bootable Acronis TrueImage Diskette

I am trying to incorporate Acronis TrueImage into my bootable Linux CD. Acronis TrueImage is backup software that saves the entire hard disk partition of Windows or Linux system. In short, I am going to use the Bootable Rescue Media Builder to turn my Zip100 or 128MB USB flash into a rescue media, rip it with WinImage and then copy it into my CD. Here's how I did step-by-step:


Start the Bootable Rescue Media Builder under Aronis Start menu.


Bootable_Rescue_Media_Builder_01

In the Rescue Media Contents Selection window, check Acronis True Image Home (Full version) at the left and check Start automatically after 10 sec. at the right. Then, click Next.


Rescue_Media_Contents_Selection

Plug in your USB flash. At the present, any media larger than 64MB will do. That means 128MB USB flash is the minimum. I am using 100MB Zip diskette. At the Bootable Media Selection window, choose a Removable Disk that's blank and more than 64MB, but not Floppy Diskette nor ISO image.


Bootable_Media_Selection

Acronis Media Builder says it's ready to start the media creation process.


Acronis_Media_Builder_Ready

Click Proceed. Acronis Media Builder formats the drive and copies files to it.


Acronis_Media_Builder_Processing

Upon completion, check your rescue media.


Acronis_Media_Builder_complete

Ripping the partition with Linux dd


Now, reboot to Linux and open xterm or your favorite terminal emulator. Plug in your USB flash if you haven't done so. Linux will automatically detect your USB drive. To find the device name of your USB drive, type:


dmesg | tail

dmesg will show the drive letter of the USB flash that was just plugged in. In case your USB flash is /dev/sdc1, type the following command:


dd if=/dev/sdc1 of=sdc1.bin bs=512

This saves the partition of Acronis rescue media as sdc1.bin. Copy it to your Windows partion. Then, reboot to Windows.



Using WinImage to Resize the Partition Image


Download and install WinImage.

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