Choose or Advanced creation and select your USB flash drive. Boot the target computer from this USB drive.

Acronis Backup Archive Explorer is a core device driver engine (historically utilizing tib.sys or the ROOT\TIMOUNTER hardware ID). It mounts proprietary Acronis disk images as virtual volumes inside Windows Explorer. This core integration lets users double-click an archive file to copy individual folders without executing a full-disk system restoration.

Acronis does not officially distribute a standalone, single-executable "Portable Archive Explorer" for Windows desktops. The standard Archive Explorer relies heavily on low-level Windows drivers (such as tib_mounter.sys ) and shell extensions to integrate with Windows Explorer.

You are using a very old Backup Explorer (e.g., from Acronis 2015) to open a .TIBX file. Fix: Obtain the latest BackupExplorer.exe from an Acronis Cyber Protect installation.

When extracting files from a backup made on a different computer, you may encounter Windows "Access Denied" errors due to security identifiers (SIDs). Ensure your portable environment runs with administrative privileges so you can take ownership of recovered folders.

Acronis provides the Portable Archive Explorer as part of:

Created using the within Acronis True Image (now Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office ).