Operation Manual

3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

3.4.1 How it works

The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager lets you start Acronis True Image Home without

loading the operating system. With this feature, if the operating system won't load for some

reason, you can run Acronis True Image Home by itself to restore damaged partitions. As

opposed to booting from Acronis removable media, you will not need a separate media or

network connection to start Acronis True Image Home.

3.4.2 How to use

To be able to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at boot time, prepare as follows:

1. Install Acronis True Image Home.

2. Create Acronis Secure Zone on the hard disk (see

Chap er 9. Managing Acronis Secure

Zone

3. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. To do so, click Activate Acronis Startup

Recovery Manager and follow the wizard’s instructions.

If you try to activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager while Acronis Secure Zone is missing

from the system, you will be prompted to create the zone,

then Acronis Startup Recovery

Manager will be activated. Otherwise, Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated

immediately.

When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot record

(MBR) with its own boot code. If you have any third-party boot managers installed, you will

have to reactivate them after activating the Startup Recovery Manager. For Linux loaders

(e.g. LiLo and GRUB), you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition

boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.

If failure occurs, turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the "Press F11 for

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager" message. This will run a standalone version of Acronis

True Image Home that only slightly differs from the complete version. For information on

restoring damaged partitions, see

Chapter 6 Restoring the backup data

Be careful! Disk letters in standalone Acronis True Image Home might sometimes differ from

the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: drive identified in the standalone

Acronis True Image might correspond to the E: drive in Windows.

3.5 Acronis backup locations

The performance, capacity and cost of modern hard disk drives make them a convenient and

reliable place for storing backup archives. External and networked drives have become the

most popular storage locations. Backing up a computer drive to another internal drive is

another common solution. One can organize a storage area on an FTP server and access it

via Internet. As opposed to removable media, a hard drive, whether local, external or

networked, provides plenty of space and is always available for unattended scheduled

backup.

You may feel safe with a substantial piece of your data on media such as a CD-R, but you

definitely will not be happy digging the right one out of several dusty piles of jewel cases.

Whereas saving your archives on any hard drive enables organization of comprehensive

search procedure.