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9 Tools & Utilities ................................................................................................................. 158
9.1 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................159
9.1.1 How it works ................................................................................................................................................ 159
9.1.2 How to use ................................................................................................................................................... 159
9.2 Creating bootable rescue media ............................................................................................160
9.2.1 Acronis Media Builder ................................................................................................................................. 160
9.2.2 Creating BartPE disc with Acronis True Image Home 2011 ..................................................................... 165
9.2.3 Creating WinPE-based rescue media ......................................................................................................... 167
9.3 Working with Acronis Secure Zone® ......................................................................................171
9.3.1 Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................... 171
9.3.2 Acronis Secure Zone location ..................................................................................................................... 173
9.3.3 Selecting partitions ...................................................................................................................................... 173
9.3.4 Size of Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................................................ 174
9.3.5 Managing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 175
9.3.6 Acronis Secure Zone summary ................................................................................................................... 177
9.4 Cloning a hard disk .................................................................................................................178
9.4.1 General information .................................................................................................................................... 178
9.4.2 Security......................................................................................................................................................... 179
9.4.3 Selecting clone mode .................................................................................................................................. 179
9.4.4 Selecting a source disk ................................................................................................................................ 180
9.4.5 Selecting a destination disk ........................................................................................................................ 181
9.4.6 Move method .............................................................................................................................................. 181
9.4.7 Manual partitioning .................................................................................................................................... 182
9.4.8 Cloning summary ........................................................................................................................................ 184
9.5 Adding a new hard disk..........................................................................................................185
9.5.1 Selecting a hard disk .................................................................................................................................... 186
9.5.2 Creating new partitions .............................................................................................................................. 186
9.5.3 Add new disk summary............................................................................................................................... 189
9.6 Security and Privacy Tools .....................................................................................................190
9.6.1 Acronis DriveCleanser ................................................................................................................................. 190
9.6.2 File shredder ................................................................................................................................................ 197
9.6.3 System Clean-up .......................................................................................................................................... 199
9.6.4 Hard Disk Wiping methods ......................................................................................................................... 205
9.7 Mounting an image ................................................................................................................207
9.8 Unmounting an image ...........................................................................................................209
9.9 Working with vhd files ...........................................................................................................210
9.9.1 Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa .................................................................... 210
9.9.2 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup ............................................................................ 212
9.9.3 Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition .............................................................. 213
9.9.4 Acronis Boot Sequence Manager ............................................................................................................... 214
9.10 Importing and exporting backup settings ..............................................................................214
10 Troubleshooting ................................................................................................................ 216
10.1 General recommendations ....................................................................................................216
10.2 Acronis System Report ...........................................................................................................217
10.3 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ...............................................................................................217
10.4 Creating a custom rescue CD .................................................................................................219
10.5 Viewing Log ............................................................................................................................219
10.6 Acronis Customer Experience Program .................................................................................220
