ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE, User Manual

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8 Introduction
The usage of partition and disk back-up copying software turned out to be
simpler as well as more visual. Such programs allow the user to work by
means of a simple and user-friendly interface, while minimizing storing and
restoring operations to several easy steps.
The purpose and capabilities of Acronis TrueImage Deluxe system
Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software is used to create exact images of hard
disks (and disk partitions) that can be used to restore disk contents, deploy
hard drive on new PCs, or to replace a hard disk. A disk image is stored in an
archive file on a hard disk or any removable media. This file may contain
images of several disks (and partitions) at once.
Restoring a disk/partition from an archive file, a user can easily select the
image of a needed disk/partition; select a disk/partition to restore to, and
change its size, location, and other parameters. A user can restore whole
disk/partition as well as separate files from a disk image.
Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software works under Windows 9x/Me, Windows
NT/2000/XP and supports
FAT16/32 and NTFS
as well as the Linux
ext2, ext3,
ReiserFS
file systems.
You can install the software only under Windows, but you will be able to run Acronis
TrueImage Deluxe from a bootable diskette or CD-R(W) under
any other OS
including
Linux.
Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software works with
any disks
connected to your
PC (including IDE, SCSI, USB, FireWire, and/or PCMCIA interfaces). An
archive file can be created on a hard disk as well as on any other recording
device running under an OS, such as Iomega Zip, CD-R(W) or DVD-R(W)
drives, magneto-optical disk, and other media.
The software has a user-friendly graphical user interface that allows you to
work with both the mouse and keyboard.
Working with the software is performed through our easy image creation and
restoration
wizard
.
It takes just a few simple steps to start the disk/partition image creation
procedure:
• Select the operation of partition (disk) image creation;
• Select partition(s) and/or disk(s) to create images of (store data in an
archive file);
• Select type of a device for image creation (storing image in an archive
file): fixed or removable. For example, a hard disk, magneto-optical disk,
CD-R(W), DVD-R(W), etc.;
• Enter archive file name and specify its path;