OS, the user sees the folder tree with files, though file contents still is not recovered.
Nevertheless, the user can start working.
2. Writes on the hard disk its own drivers, which intercept system queries to the files. When
the user opens files or launches applications, the drivers receive the system queries and
restore the sectors that are necessary for the current operation.
3. At the same time, Acronis True Image Home proceeds with the complete sector-by-sector
image restoration in the background. However, the system requested sectors have the
highest priority.
Finally, the image will be fully restored even if the user performs no actions at all. But if you
choose to start working as soon as possible after the system failure, you will gain at least
several minutes, considering that restoration of a 10-20 GB image (most common image
size) takes about 10 minutes. The larger the image size, the more time you save.
3.5.2 How to use
To be able to use Acronis Snap Restore in case of system crash, prepare as follows:
1. Install Acronis True Image Home.
2. Create Acronis Secure Zone on the hard disk (see
Chap er 8. Managing Acronis Secure
Zone
).
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.
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.
3. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery manager (see
3 4 Ac onis Startup Recovery Manager
)
and create bootable media with Acronis True Image Home (see
Chapter 9. Creating
bootable
media).
4. Back up (image) the system disk to Acronis Secure Zone (see
5 2 Backing up disks and
partitions (image backup)
). You can back up other disks/partitions as well, but the system
image is mandatory.
When performing Snap Restore, the current Acronis True Image Home version always
restores the entire system disk. Therefore, if your system disk consists of several partitions,
all of them must be included into the image. Any partitions which are missing from the
image will be lost.
If failure occurs, boot the computer from the bootable media or using F11. Start the
recovery procedure (see
6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images
), select the
system disk image from Acronis Secure Zone, choose
Use Snap Restore
and in the next
window click
Proceed
. In a few seconds the computer will reboot to the restored system.
Log in and start work – no more reboots or other actions are required.
You can perform Snap Restore running Acronis True Image Home in supported Windows
operating systems as well. However, it is mandatory to have bootable media in case
Windows cannot boot.
3.6 Viewing disk and partition information
You can change the way of data representation in all schemes you see in various wizards.
To the right are three icons:
Arrange Icons by, Choose Details
and
i
(Display the
properties of the selected item)
, the last duplicated in the context menu invoked by
right-clicking objects.
To sort messages by a particular column, click the header (another click will switch the
messages to the opposite order) or
Arrange Icons by
button and select the column.
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