flyfisher,
I haven't set my Acronis up for usb yet but I did find some info on it that I was going to use here: http://www.purviancecs.com/acronis.htm.
They have a printable guide to setting it up bootable on usb flash or usb hard drives. There is a link to the Acronis forums in there also. I hope it helps.
JDtucson

Last edited by JDTucson (2008-01-21 2:02:20 am)

If you have the genuine Acronis 11 installer the is a Recovery Boot Media program.  This makes a USB stick bootable (or a CD if you prefer).  Then insert the USB stick into the slot, turn on the EEE and set it as the first HDD device.

It works everytime.  I've tried it with several USB sticks and last night I installed Linux decided I didn't like it and returned to XP without any data loss.

EDIT: Forgot to add the USB stick I'm using is a OLD Sandisk Cruzer Mini 128MB.

Last edited by carphead (2008-01-21 4:26:23 am)

Thanks for that - downloaded and formatted the sticks with PeToUSB, and that seems to have done the trick with Acronis 11 - thanks. I was using the time limited version of 11 - may well buy it now. I did have version 8 off a cover disk and this will allow me to go teh upgrade route.

Thanks again.

Paul Bromley

ziggywas wrote:

I created the Rescue Media on a 4GB USB stick (using Acronis 11), and everything worked perfectly. I did have a problem initially, in that it didn't recognize the stick as bootable, but I formatted it beforehand with PeToUSB, and the problem was solved.