User's Manual

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9.5.1 Reverting to a previous file version ........................................................................................................... 135
9.6 How to clean up your space on Acronis Cloud ......................................................................135
9.7 How to recover a deleted file ................................................................................................136
9.8 Deleting a sync .......................................................................................................................137
10 Disk cloning and migration ........................................................................................... 138
10.1 Disk cloning utility ..................................................................................................................138
10.1.1 Clone Disk wizard ........................................................................................................................................ 138
10.1.2 Manual partitioning .................................................................................................................................... 141
10.1.3 Excluding items from cloning ..................................................................................................................... 142
10.2 Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD .....................................................................143
10.2.1 What to do if Acronis True Image 2021 does not recognize your SSD .................................................... 143
10.2.2 Migrating to SSD using the backup and recovery method....................................................................... 144
11 Tools ........................................................................................................................... 146
11.1 Acronis Media Builder............................................................................................................147
11.1.1 Creating Acronis bootable media ............................................................................................................... 148
11.1.2 Acronis bootable media startup parameters ............................................................................................ 149
11.1.3 Adding drivers to an existing .wim image ................................................................................................. 150
11.1.4 Creating an .iso file from a .wim file .......................................................................................................... 151
11.2 Making sure that your bootable media can be used when needed ......................................152
11.2.1 Selecting video mode when booting from the bootable media .............................................................. 156
11.3 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................157
11.4 Try&Decide ............................................................................................................................158
11.4.1 Using Try&Decide ........................................................................................................................................ 160
11.4.2 Try&Decide options and notifications ....................................................................................................... 161
11.4.3 Try&Decide: typical use cases .................................................................................................................... 162
11.5 Acronis Secure Zone ..............................................................................................................163
11.5.1 Creating and managing Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................... 164
11.5.2 Acronis Secure Zone location ..................................................................................................................... 164
11.5.3 Size of Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................................................ 165
11.5.4 Acronis Secure Zone protection ................................................................................................................. 166
11.5.5 Removing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 167
11.6 Adding a new hard disk ..........................................................................................................167
11.6.1 Selecting a hard disk .................................................................................................................................... 168
11.6.2 Selecting initialization method ................................................................................................................... 169
11.6.3 Creating new partitions .............................................................................................................................. 169
11.7 Security and Privacy Tools .....................................................................................................171
11.7.1 Acronis DriveCleanser ................................................................................................................................. 171
11.7.2 System Clean-up .......................................................................................................................................... 175
11.7.3 Hard Disk Wiping methods ......................................................................................................................... 181
11.8 Mounting an image ................................................................................................................182
11.9 Unmounting an image ...........................................................................................................183
11.10 Working with .vhd(x) files ......................................................................................................183
11.10.1 Converting Acronis backup ......................................................................................................................... 183
11.11 Importing and exporting backup settings ..............................................................................184
11.12 Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................185
11.12.1 Creating Acronis Universal Boot media ..................................................................................................... 186
11.12.2 Using Acronis Universal Restore ................................................................................................................ 188