, which serves as a standalone, "portable" version of the software designed to run from a USB drive or external hard drive to recover or clone systems when the primary OS cannot boot. 1. Types of "Portable" Acronis Environments Standard Bootable Media
: Disaster recovery and migrating systems to new hardware. acronis portable version
: Automatically selects the best media type (WinRE or Linux) for your current system. Advanced Method , which serves as a standalone, "portable" version