The easiest thing for JUST the Acronis Restore is to use their media builder to make its own boot CD. Acronis distributes a plug-in for a BartPE CD (but why bother).
As far as your other questions, USB has flaky support some times generally, but especially for use as a bootable device. It may settle down eventually. Remember, the main things you want to accomplish "may" require constant care (and updating). I got tired of the hassle... Rick Glazier
One thing I have yet to do is create some kind of windows bootable media that I can boot into when I need to repair a windows installation, or run a Acronis restore, delete a stubborn file when it refuses to delete on a running windows, or a virus scan on a non running windows. Something similar to booting from a dual boot windows PC... only not from my hard drive and able to use it with any PC. Is there an easy way to create such a thing, and how do I go about it?
