Operation Manual

• Acronis Secure Zone password protection – restrict unauthorized access to data in

your Acronis Secure Zone backups and F11 boot

• E-mail notifications and alerts confirm backup tasks and results.

1.3 System requirements and supported media

1.3.1 Minimum system requirements

Acronis True Image Home requires the following hardware:

• Pentium processor or higher

• 128 MB RAM

• FDD or CD-RW drive for bootable media creation

• Mouse (recommended).

1.3.2 Supported operating systems

• Windows® 2000 Professional SP 4

• Windows® XP SP 2

• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

• Windows Vista Ready (except for the Acronis Snap Restore feature)

Acronis True Image Home also enables creation of a bootable diskette or CD-R/W that can

back up and restore a disk/partition on a computer running any PC-based operating system

including Linux®.

1.3.3 Supported file systems

• FAT16/32

• NTFS

• Ext2/Ext3

• ReiserFS

• Linux SWAP

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image Home can copy data

using a sector-by-sector approach.

1.3.4 Supported storage media

• Hard disk drives

• Networked storage devices

• FTP servers*

• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM**

• USB 1.0 / 2.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices

• Floppy disks, ZIP®, Jaz® and other removable media

* An FTP server must allow passive mode for file transfers. Data recovery directly from FTP

server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB. It is recommended that