User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Home installation and startin
- Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis tech
- Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Home
- Chapter 5. Creating backup archives
- Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data
- 6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?
- 6.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives
- 6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images
- 6.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard
- 6.3.2 Archive selection
- 6.3.3 Restoration type selection
- 6.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore
- 6.3.5 Selecting a target disk/partition
- 6.3.6 Changing the restored partition type
- 6.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system
- 6.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location
- 6.3.9 Assigning a letter to the restored partition
- 6.3.10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once
- 6.3.11 Setting restore options
- 6.3.12 Restoration summary and executing restoration
- 6.4 Setting restore options
- Chapter 7. Scheduling tasks
- Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone
- Chapter 9. Creating bootable media
- Chapter 10. Other operations
- Chapter 11. Mounting an image as a virtual drive
- Chapter 12. Transferring the system to a new disk
- 12.1 General information
- 12.2 Security
- 12.3 Executing transfers
- 12.3.1 Selecting Clone mode
- 12.3.2 Selecting source disk
- 12.3.3 Selecting destination disk
- 12.3.4 Partitioned destination disk
- 12.3.5 Old and new disk partition layout
- 12.3.6 Old disk data
- 12.3.7 Destroying the old disk data
- 12.3.8 Selecting partition transfer method
- 12.3.9 Partitioning the old disk
- 12.3.10 Old and new disk partition layouts
- 12.3.11 Cloning summary
- 12.4 Cloning with manual partitioning
- Chapter 13. Adding a new hard disk
- Appendix A. Partitions and file systems
- Appendix B. Hard disks and BIOS setup

Creating images directly on CD-R/RW or DVD
+R/RW might take considerably more time
than it would on a hard disk.
5.3.7 File-level security settings
Preserve files’ security settings in archives
By default, files and folders are saved in the archive with their original Windows security
settings (i.e. permissions for read, write, execute and so on for each user or user group, set
in file Properties -> Security). If you restore a secured file/folder on a computer without
user, specified in the permissions, you may not be able to read or modify this file.
To completely eliminate this kind of problem, you can disable preserving files’ security
settings in archives. Then the restored files/folders will always inherit the permissions from
the folder to which they are restored (parent folder or disk, if restored to the root).
Alternatively, you can disable files’ security settings during restoration, even if they are
available in the archive (see
6.4 4 File-level security
settings below). The result will be the
same.
.
In archives, store encrypted files in decrypted state
The default setting – disabled.
If you do not use the encryption feature available in Windows XP operating systems, simply
ignore this option. (Files/folders encryption is set in Properties -> General -> Advanced
Attributes -> Encrypt contents to secure data).
Check the option if there are encrypted files in the backup and you want them to be
accessed by any user after restore. Otherwise, only the user who encrypted the files/folders
will be able to read them. Decryption may also be useful if you are going to restore
encrypted files on another computer.
These options relate only to file/folders backup.
5.3.8 Media components
The default setting – disabled.
When backing up to removable media, you can make this media bootable by writing to it
additional components. Thus, you will not need a separate rescue disk.
Choose the basic components, necessary for boot and restoring data, on the General tab.
The Acronis One-Click Restore is a minimal addition to your rescue media, allowing one-
click data recovery from an image archive, stored on this media. This means that at boot
from the media and clicking “restore” all data will be silently restored to the original place.
No options or selections like resizing partitions will be possible.
If you want more functionality during restoration, write a standalone version of Acronis
True Image Home to the rescue disk. Then you will be able to configure the restore task
using Restore Data Wizard, use Acronis Snap Restore etc.
Under Advanced tab you can select full, safe or both Acronis True Image Home loader
version. The safe version does not have USB, PC card or SCSI drivers and is useful only in
case the full version does not load. If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk
Director Suite, installed on your computer, the bootable versions of these programs’
components will be offered as Advanced as well.
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