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What to do, if creating a bootable USB fails

If you encounter issues when creating a bootable USB ash drive or disk by means of Acronis bootable media builder you can try one of the workarounds below:
Creating Acronis bootable media on a USB ash drive (applies to Windows Vista/7/2008/2008 R2)
1. Insert your ash drive;
2. Hit Win-R ( Start-Run) and type cmd to open a command-line;
3. Type diskpart to run Windows DiskPart utility:
4. Type list disk to list all disks attached to the machine:

5. Type select disk [number] to select your ash drive:

6. Type clean to remove any formatting from the selected disk:

7. Type create partition primary:

8. Type select partition 1 to select the only partition, which you now have on the ash drive:

9. Type active to mark the partition as active:

10. Type format fs=fat32 to format the disk in FAT32 (otherwise the drive will not be bootable):

11. Type assign to assign a drive letter:

12. Type exit to exit Windows DiskPart utility:

13. Run your Acronis product;

14. Pick Tools -> Create Bootable Rescue Media;
15. Follow all steps of the wizard and select your USB ash drive as media.

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