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User's Guide

TrueImage 

6.0

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Summary of Contents for TRUE IMAGE 6.0

Page 1: ...User s Guide TrueImage 6 0 Compute with confidence www acronis com...

Page 2: ...of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of the work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibite...

Page 3: ...FILE CREATION SCRIPT 17 CHAPTER 3 RESTORING A DISK PARTITION FROM AN IMAGE 18 3 1 SELECTING AN ARCHIVE FILE 19 3 2 SELECTING A PARTITION TO BE RESTORED 21 3 3 SELECTING A DESTINATION PARTITION 22 3 4...

Page 4: ...ions and disks The images contain both data of partitions and or disks and information allowing you to restore a partition disk from the image Partition images include all its files and folders irresp...

Page 5: ...luded with this package The supplied registration card is the confirmation of your legal purchase and usage of Acronis TrueImage on your system Each registration card has its own unique registration n...

Page 6: ...Image installation CD into CD ROM drive and start the installation procedure 2 Carefully follow the installation program instructions on the screen 3 After making your installation choices and copying...

Page 7: ...sking if you really want to remove the software from your PC hard disk Press Yes to confirm removal Acronis TrueImage software will be completely removed 1 6 User Interface Acronis TrueImage has an ex...

Page 8: ...tarting Work with Acronis TrueImage Acronis TrueImage software runs in different modes during disk partition image creation or restoration in case of a serious system malfunction or disk filing struct...

Page 9: ...onis TrueImage There are three actions available create an image of a disk partition and or the whole hard disk drive a group of partitions several partitions restore a partition disk from an image fi...

Page 10: ...y select several hard disk partitions and or different disks Click a rectangle representing the whole hard disk with an icon disk number and capacity to select it for image creation As a result all di...

Page 11: ...e device types hard disks network disks removable media CD R RW DVD RW Iomega Zip Iomega Jaz magneto optical and other drives Selecting Image Archive location In the next Image Archive Creation window...

Page 12: ...ve file and create a new one instead You can store images of several partitions or even disks in a single archive file but you can t append images to an existing archive file You can also create an ar...

Page 13: ...ession files will be obviously moved to an archive file without any compression which is inefficient On the other hand the work speed might drop and image creation time might increase if you select th...

Page 14: ...rminate Acronis TrueImage prepare a partition for image creation and run the process anew FAT16 and FAT32 limit file sizes In particular the maximal file size of FAT16 and FAT32 is 4 GB FAT32 file sys...

Page 15: ...nk a partition disk you create an image of shouldn t be restored by anybody except you enter a password and its confirmation into the text fields of the next Image Archive Protection window A password...

Page 16: ...r the hard disk partition data image creation time and any peculiarities and conditions For example True Image of Primary Partition HDD1 OS Windows XP Applications Office 2000 Word Excel Outlook Adobe...

Page 17: ...partition disk image creation in an archive file are delayed in Acronis TrueImage A partition disk image creation script is created first and then it s executed Now Acronis TrueImage software is read...

Page 18: ...onis TrueImage or from a bootable CD with Acronis TrueImage You can run Acronis TrueImage from a CD and then replace a bootable disk with an archive file CD containing the image of a partition to be r...

Page 19: ...tion restore a partition In the next window Acronis TrueImage will show you the complete list of storage devices connected to your PC including hard disks as well as any other storage drives You ll be...

Page 20: ...ctions would be In particular you can store several system partition configurations in archive files if working intensively with your operating system experimenting with various applications or device...

Page 21: ...om an archive file You can select several partitions and or disks for restoration during a session of Acronis TrueImage but you ll have to do it in turns i e select one partition disk and set restorat...

Page 22: ...ion to restore an image from an archive file to It means no other software must work with this partition during the restoration Therefore it s recommended to close all applications for the restoration...

Page 23: ...select either the active or primary type for it Selecting the restored partition type Acronis TrueImage software allows to similarly change a partition file system at restoration Let s assume you are...

Page 24: ...operating systems to FAT32 You can find file system comparatives in the A 2 File Systems Selecting the restored partition file system If your PC health was ruined you might like to restore a partitio...

Page 25: ...an resize a partition to make it larger or smaller not smaller than the space occupied with its data Resizing a partition Having changed partition size and location if needed click Next to continue Ha...

Page 26: ...logical drive to be restored under Windows NT 2000 XP To do this set the switch to Yes I want to assign a logical drive letter to the restored partition on the following page and select a letter from...

Page 27: ...norharddiskdrive in the NextSelection window Selecting the next partition to be restored Having clicked Next you ll see the Source Partition Selection window again This time the upper right corner of...

Page 28: ...dow Now Acronis TrueImage software is ready for partition restoration If you click Back you ll be able to select other partitions and or disks for restoration rethink partition size changes its type a...

Page 29: ...ases Acronis TrueImage can unplug a logical drive perform restoration and connect it again In the given situation Reboot is replaced by Dismount Sometimes it s impossible to unplug a logical drive Acr...

Page 30: ...y close attention to the procedure outlined below If your partition hard disk image has been split into several volumes written on CD R RW DVD RW or other removable discs you should first insert the l...

Page 31: ...rueImage is flexible enough to help you in this situation as well Acronis TrueImage features temporary logical drive connection from an image for separate files restoration Having connected a drive yo...

Page 32: ...ronis TrueImage Exploring a partition image in an archive file As in case of the whole disk partition disk restoration the next window of Acronis TrueImage will offer you the full list of storage devi...

Page 33: ...ate rectangle representing it As a result the selected partition rectangle will become underlined red Another click will deselect the partition You can select to connect several partitions simultaneou...

Page 34: ...the message window with the contents of the connected drive partition stored in an archive file The Windows window with the temporary connected logical drive Now you can easily copy any file or file f...

Page 35: ...ear Additionally having run Acronis TrueImage you ll find out another button in the operation selection window Unplugtemporarylogicaldrives A new operation in the Action Selection window After selecti...

Page 36: ...0th cylinder header 0 which is called a Partition Table This sector is called the Master Boot Record MBR A physical hard disk can contain up to 4 primary partitions This limitation is due only to the...

Page 37: ...6 The larger the partition size the larger the cluster has to be Most of operating systems incorrectly perform with 128 sector clusters thus reducing the maximum FAT16 partition size to 2 gigabytes Us...

Page 38: ...rch A 2 4 Linux Ext2 Ext2 is one of the main file systems for the Linux operating system Ext2 is a 32 bit file system Its maximum size is 16 terabytes Main data structure that describes a file is an i...

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