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
1.4 System requirements and supported media
1.4.1 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).
1.4.2 Supported operating systems
• Windows® 98 SE
• Windows® Me
• Windows® NT 4.0 Workstation SP 6
• Windows® 2000 Professional SP 4
• Windows® XP SP 2
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
Acronis True Image Home also enables creating 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®.
1.4.3 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.
1.4.4 Supported storage media
• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices
• 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
* - DVD burning is not supported in Windows 98/Me, burned DVDs cannot be read in
Windows 98/Me. Burned write-once discs cannot be read in Windows NT 4 without third-
party software. Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without kernel patch.
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