Operation Manual

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.