Acronis Snap Deploy 4 - User Guide - Manual (Page 63)

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selecting a bootable component. No password is required to start the operating system on the
machine.
Protecting the bootable components with a password
9. Click Create. After you create the disc, mark it and keep it in a safe place.
Note: Components on an Acronis bootable media are based on a Linux kernel and are equipped with the Linux
system and device drivers. Acronis regularly supplements the driver set with drivers for new devices. However,
there may be a chance of drivers being incompatible with your hardware, so a bootable component cannot
start, stops responding or cannot access the necessary device. In this case, consider creating a WinPE-based
bootable media (p. 63) instead.
7.2.2 Creating a WinPE-based bootable media
Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a minimal Windows system based on the Windows
Vista, the Windows Server 2008, or the Windows 7 kernels. WinPE is commonly used by original
equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and corporations for deployment, test, diagnostic and system
repair purposes.
Similarly to creating an Acronis bootable media (p. 60), you can create a bootable media that is based
on WinPE and includes bootable components of Acronis Snap Deploy 4.
You may want to use a WinPE-based media instead of an Acronis bootable media for the following
purposes:
 Performing imaging or deployment to machines whose hardware is not properly recognized from
the Acronis bootable media (which is based on a Linux kernel)
 Performing deployment in the command-line mode (p. 134); for example, to deploy different
master images to different target machines (p. 142)