If your computer does not boot or you have a new computer without any operating system installed on it, you can boot your computer with Acronis bootable media. The bootable media is a USB flash drive or a CD with Acronis software on it. This way, you can recover from a backup in case your computer does not boot anymore.
Acronis Bootable Media of any Acronis backup product is an exclusive recovery environment for restoring images. Additionally, it allows you to create images, clone hard disk drives, partition new hard disk drives without having to boot into Windows. It has the same graphical interface as when you run your copy of an Acronis backup product under Windows.
The bootable media is based on the Linux operating system and uses Linux drivers for getting access to all hardware devices.
The bootable media boots and runs successfully both on 32 bit and 64 bit machines.
You can run the bootable media of your copy of an Acronis backup product from a CD-R(W) disc, a DVD+R(W), DVD-R(W) a set of floppy diskettes, a USB flash card or a ZIP-diskette.
Backup archives created in Windows can be restored by Acronis Bootable Media and vice versa.