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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. 68)
instead.

7.2.2 WinPE-based bootable media

Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) is a minimal Windows system. 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. 65), you can create a bootable media that is based
on WinPE and includes bootable components of Acronis Snap Deploy 5.

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 with hardware that is not properly recognized by
the Acronis bootable media (which is based on a Linux kernel)

Performing deployment in the command-line mode (p. 135); for example, to deploy different
master images to different target machines (p. 143)

Sending e-mail notifications about deployment

Note: WinPE-based bootable media of versions earlier than 4.0 do not support UEFI booting.

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