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Revised on October 12, 2020

This document contains the important information regarding the  use of this product. It is highly recommended that you read this document carefully before using this product.

* For system requirements, please visit here.

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Deployment USB Device Creator Wizard

Boot Environment

Others

ActiveImage Deployment USB Device Creator Wizard

• When a master image file is created from a pre-configured computer system, the created image file size is based on the used space of the computer system. Ensure the USB device has sufficient available space.

• A 64-bit OS is required to create the Deployment USB Device. 32-bit environments are not supported to create Deployment USB Device.
• You can select the device drivers supporting Windows PE-based OS versions to include in Windows PE-based boot environment.

• Depending on the display type, the screen display may not appear with the resolution level specified in Options setting.
• Building an ActiveImage Deployment USB device may fail to include some type of device driver.
• ActiveImage Deploy USB supports backup image files meeting the following criteria:
• Must be base image file (*.aiv).

* If you need to restore ActiveImage Protector incremental backup image files, please archive the image files by using ActiveImage Protector's Archive feature.

• The display language changed in [Settings] is not retained.
• [Automatically run Deploy/Restore task] does not work when a password-protected image is used. When the correct password is entered, the Deploy/Restore task will run.

Boot Environment

• If the USB device's capacity is 2TB or larger, please boot up the USB device in uEFI mode. Booting a USB device of such large size capacity in BIOS mode will fail.
  * For more detailed operating procedures how to boot from USB device, please contact the computer maker.
• Deploy/Restore features do not support the backup image files copied to USB device without using the wizard built in this product.
• Deploying/restoring the master image file to a hard disk smaller than the source disk fails.
• Deploying/restoring the master image file to the target computer fails if the number of the hard disks configured in the master image file and the target computer differs.
• Attaching multiple ActiveImage Deploy USB devices to a target computer, deploying/restoring the master image to the target computer fails. Please make sure that only one ActiveImage Deploy USB device is attached to the computer before proceeding with further operation.
• Deploy / Restore features support the environment where up to two disks are connected.
• When the Restore task is cancelled in the midst of the restore process, please boot up from the media and run the task again.

Others

• Only non-LVM systems are supported for the Linux system image to deploy/restore.
• After deploying/restoring a Linux system image in uEFI boot mode, create a boot entry by using the CentOS LiveCD. For further details, please visit here.
• If a Microsoft BitLocker encrypted volume is included in the backup source for the master image, a full sector backup of the encrypted volume is taken.
  * Desktop license does not support backup of a BitLocker encrypted volume.

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