Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 6
1.1 What is Acronis True Image? 6
1.2 What's new in Acronis True Image 7.0? 6
1.3 What is a disk image? 7
1.4 Software usage terms and conditions 7
CHAPTER 2. INSTALLATION AND OPERATION 8
2.1 Bundle contents 8
2.2 System requirements 8
2.3 Acronis True Image installation 8
2.4 Running Acronis True Image 9
2.5 Removing the program 9
CHAPTER 3. GENERAL PROGRAM INFORMATION 10
3.1 Main program window 10
3.2 Acronis Secure Zone 12
3.3 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 16
3.4 Incremental images 17
CHAPTER 4. CREATING A PARTITION (DISK) IMAGE 18
CHAPTER 5. RESTORING A DISK (PARTITION) FROM AN IMAGE 25
CHAPTER 6. BROWSING AND RESTORING INDIVIDUAL FILES 33
6.1 Connecting a virtual disk 33
6.2 Unplugging a virtual disk 34
CHAPTER 7. TRANSFERRING THE SYSTEM TO A NEW DISK 35
7.1 General information 35
7.2 Security 36
7.3 Executing transfers 36
7.4 Cloning with manual partitioning 43
CHAPTER 8. ADDING A NEW HARD DISK 45
CHAPTER 9. SCHEDULED TASKS 47
9.1 Creating scheduled tasks 47
9.2 Managing scheduled tasks 52
CHAPTER 10. OTHER OPERATIONS 54
10.1 Checking images 54
10.2 Creating bootable media 55
10.3 Viewing logs 55
CHAPTER 11. TROUBLESHOOTING 57
11.1 Recovering Acronis True Image 57
11.2 Frequently asked questions 57
11.3 Technical support 60
APPENDIX A. PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS 62
A.1 Hard disk partitions 62
A.2 File systems 62
A.2.1 FAT16 63
A.2.2 FAT32 63
A.2.3 NTFS 63
A.2.4 Linux Ext2 64
A.2.5 Linux Ext3 64
A.2.6 Linux ReiserFS 64
