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3.13.14 Error handling ................................................................................................................................................ 70
3.13.15 Computer shutdown ..................................................................................................................................... 70
3.13.16 File-level security settings for backup .......................................................................................................... 71
3.13.17 Windows account .......................................................................................................................................... 71
3.13.18 Performance of backup operation ............................................................................................................... 71
3.13.19 Notifications for backup operation .............................................................................................................. 72
3.13.20 Excluding items from backup ....................................................................................................................... 73
3.14 Validating backups ...................................................................................................................75
3.15 Consolidating backup versions ................................................................................................75
3.15.1 Archive to consolidate protection ................................................................................................................ 76
3.15.2 Backup selection ............................................................................................................................................ 76
3.15.3 Result location ............................................................................................................................................... 76
3.15.4 Consolidation summary ................................................................................................................................ 77
3.16 Cloning backup settings ...........................................................................................................77
4 Recovering data ................................................................................................................... 78
4.1 Recovering your system after a crash......................................................................................78
4.1.1 Trying to determine the crash cause ........................................................................................................... 78
4.1.2 Preparing for recovery .................................................................................................................................. 79
4.1.3 Recovering your system ................................................................................................................................ 79
4.2 Recovering partitions and disks ...............................................................................................82
4.3 Recovering partitions protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup .............................................84
4.4 How to recover more than one partition at once ...................................................................84
4.5 Recovering a disk backup to a different disk under rescue media ..........................................88
4.5.1 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition ................................................................................................... 89
4.6 Recovering data from file-level backups .................................................................................94
4.7 Recovering file versions ...........................................................................................................95
4.8 Recovering to different hardware ...........................................................................................96
4.8.1 Recovering your system with the help of Acronis Universal Restore ....................................................... 96
4.8.2 Recovering your system with the help of Acronis Universal Restore under rescue media ..................... 97
4.9 Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................100
4.9.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore ....................................................................................................... 100
4.9.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore ....................................................................................... 101
4.10 How to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ....................................................................101
4.11 About recovery of dynamic/GPT disks and volumes .............................................................102
4.12 Backup protection dialog box ................................................................................................103
4.13 Arranging boot order in BIOS.................................................................................................103
4.14 Recovery options ...................................................................................................................104
4.14.1 Disk recovery mode .................................................................................................................................... 105
4.14.2 Pre/Post commands for recovery .............................................................................................................. 105
4.14.3 Validation option ......................................................................................................................................... 105
4.14.4 Computer restart ......................................................................................................................................... 106
4.14.5 File recovery options ................................................................................................................................... 106
4.14.6 Overwrite file options ................................................................................................................................. 106
4.14.7 Performance of recovery operation .......................................................................................................... 107
4.14.8 Notifications for recovery operation ......................................................................................................... 107
4.15 Restoring computer to factory settings .................................................................................108
