Acronis Rescue Media is a Live CD

Live CD

A live CD, live DVD, or live disc is a CD or DVD containing a bootable computer operating system. Live CDs are unique in that they have the ability to run a complete, modern operating system on a computer lacking mutable secondary storage, such as a hard disk drive...

 produced by Acronis

Acronis

Acronis, Inc. is an international computer software company, dealing in the area of computer backup, disaster recovery, bare-metal restore, system deployment, and storage management in both Windows and Linux systems.-History:...

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It is not sold directly by Acronis, but can be created by Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image is disk imaging software, developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems. The software allows a user to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media...

 or Acronis Disk Director Suite.

It can include both Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image is disk imaging software, developed by Acronis, that creates backups and recovers PC systems. The software allows a user to create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media...

 and Acronis Disk Director Suite if both programs are installed on the computer. It can also include Acronis Drive Cleanser if Acronis True Image is installed.

Features

Depending of the software included, it can:

• Make disk image files (in .tib format) (Acronis True Image)
• Restore disk image files (Acronis True Image)
• Resize partitions (Acronis Disk Director Suite)
• Erase all the data on a computer (Acronis Drive Cleanser)