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
Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 What is Acronis True Image Home?
Acronis True Image Home solves all backup problems, ensuring the safety of all information
on your PC. Using it, you can back up selected files and folders, or entire disks and
partitions.
If failures occur that block access to information or affect system operation, or if you
accidentally delete necessary files, you'll be able to easily restore the system and lost data.
The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image Home
allows you to create exact, sector-by-sector disk backups, including all operating systems,
applications and configuration files, software updates, personal settings and all of your data.
You can store backups on almost any PC storage device: local hard drives, network drives or
a variety of IDE, SCSI, FireWire (IEEE-1394), USB (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) and PC Card (formerly
called PCMCIA) removable media drives, as well as CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,
magneto-optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.
If you are going to install a new hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Home will help you
transfer information from the old one in minutes, including operating systems, applications,
documents and personal settings.
Wizards and a user-friendly, Windows XP-styled interface will make your work more
convenient. Just answer a few simple questions and let Acronis True Image Home take care
of everything else! When a system problem occurs, the software will get you up and running
in short order.
1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.0 Home
• Support for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Direct backup to DVD and bootable DVD creation
• User-editable default restore options – Users can configure and save restore
parameters, such as files overwriting mode, the original or current date and time for
restored files etc.
• File-level security settings - preserving files’ security settings in the archive, storing
encrypted files in encrypted or decrypted state
• Read-write mode of mounting images
• Including MBR in partition images, an option to restore MBR from a disk or partition
image
• Bootable backup media – When backing up to removable media, users can make this
media bootable in the same manner as a rescue CD, so separate recover media is not
required
• One bootable media for all Acronis products - Writing standalone versions of other
Acronis products to bootable media
• Bootable disks ISOs – In addition to burning a bootable rescue disk, users can save its
ISO image for burning later
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