User`s guide

Home, except the Acronis Secure Zone and CD/DVD. In addition, it can be directed to an SMB

share.

4. Click Proceed in the Summary window.

When a tib image selected for conversion contains partitions, for example, from two physical hard

disk drives, the program will create two vhd files corresponding to those physical drives.

Acronis True Image Home cannot convert tib files containing images of spanned and striped dynamic volumes.

16.1.2 Converting to Acronis backup

Windows Vista and Windows 7 users can convert vhd files created by Windows Backup into tib

archives. This may be needed if you want to keep the earlier Windows Backup files, but decide to

convert them into tib files to save storage space as converted tib files are smaller than the

corresponding vhd files due to compression.

The virtual to physical conversion is done as follows:

1. Select Tools & Utilities → Convert Windows backup in the main program menu.

2. Select the vhd disk file to convert.

3. Specify the path to the tib file to be created.

By default the converted file will be created in the same location as the file to be converted, but

you can select another location by clicking Browse. The file can be directed to any storage

supported by Acronis True Image Home, except for Acronis Secure Zone.

4. The next step allows you to set options for the tib backup to be created. You can protect the

archive with a password and encryption, select a desired compression level, as well as split the

backup, for example, for later burning to DVDs.

5. Add comments to the archive, if you wish.

6. Click Proceed in the Summary window.

Acronis True Image Home cannot convert vhd files containing dynamic volumes which were originally

located on more than one disk drive (striped or spanned on two or more disk drives).