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Acronis TrueImage Deluxe User's guide
Acronis TrueImage Deluxe
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INTRODUCTION................................................................................................... 5 1. 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5
1.5.1 1.5.2 1.5.3 1.5.4 1.5.5 1.5.6
INSTALLING AND STARTING WORK WITH .................................................. ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE ............................................................... 14 ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE SYSTEM PACKAGE ................................... 14 INSTALLATION ........................................................................................... 14 REPAIRING ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE .............................................. 23 REMOVING THE SOFTWARE ....................................................................... 24 USER INTERFACE ....................................................................................... 24
TERMINOLOGY ...................................................................................................24 USER INTERFACE BASICS ....................................................................................24 WINDOWS...........................................................................................................25 DIALOGS AND CONTROLS...................................................................................27 INFORMATIVE ELEMENTS ...................................................................................33 SPECIAL DIALOG TYPES .....................................................................................34
1.6 1.7 2. 2.1
RUNNING ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE SOFTWARE .............................. 35 FINISHING THE WORK WITH ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE SOFTWARE .. 35 CREATING DISK/PARTITION IMAGES ....................................................... 36 CREATING A DISK/PARTITION IMAGE ON A HARD DISK ............................. 36
WELCOME PAGE .................................................................................................36 SELECTING AN OPERATION .................................................................................37 SELECTING PARTITIONS FOR IMAGE CREATION ...................................................38 IMAGE DEVICE TYPE ...........................................................................................39 A PARTITION/DISK ARCHIVE FILE........................................................................ 40 IMAGE'S DATA COMPRESSION LEVEL.................................................................. 43 CREATING ARCHIVE VOLUMES ...........................................................................43 PROTECTING AN ARCHIVE FILE WITH A PASSWORD .............................................45 COMMENTING AN ARCHIVE FILE .........................................................................46 IMAGE CREATION SCRIPT ..................................................................................47 CREATING AN IMAGE ........................................................................................48 FINISHING IMAGE CREATION............................................................................. 49 SELECTING A PARTITION AND AN OPERATION .....................................................49 SELECTING A REMOVABLE DISK DRIVE ...............................................................49 THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS ..................................................................................50 THE SCRIPT WINDOW ..........................................................................................52 THE SCRIPT PROGRESS ........................................................................................52
2.1.1 2.1.2 2.1.3 2.1.4 2.1.5 2.1.6 2.1.7 2.1.8 2.1.9 2.1.10 2.1.11 2.1.12 2.2.1 2.2.2 2.2.3 2.2.4 2.2.5
2.2 CREATING A DISK/PARTITION IMAGE ON REMOVABLE MEDIA................... 49
3. RESTORING A DISK/PARTITION FROM AN IMAGE.................................... 54 3.1 RESTORING A PARTITION (DISK) ................................................................ 54
3.1.1 3.1.2 3.1.3 3.1.4 3.1.5 3.1.6 3.1.7 3.1.8 3.1.9 3.1.10 3.1.11 SELECTING AN ACTION: RESTORE A PARTITION/DISK.......................................... 54 SELECTING AN ARCHIVE FILE.............................................................................. 55 ENTERING A PASSWORD...................................................................................... 57 ARCHIVE FILE PARTITIONS.................................................................................. 57 DESTINATION PARTITION.................................................................................... 58 EXCLUSIVE PARTITION ACCESS........................................................................... 59 PARTITION TYPE (PRIMARY/LOGICAL) ................................................................60 FILE SYSTEM....................................................................................................... 61 CHANGING SIZE OF A PARTITION TO BE RESTORED.............................................. 62 SELECTING A LETTER FOR A PARTITION TO BE RESTORED .................................64 THE NEXT PARTITION/DISK TO BE RESTORED ....................................................65 Acronis TrueImage Deluxe 3
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RESTORATION SCRIPT .......................................................................................66
3.2 PARTITION RESTORATION PECULIARITIES ................................................. 67 3.3 PECULIARITIES OF RESTORATION FROM REMOVABLE MEDIA.................... 69 3.4 RESTORING SEPARATE FILES ..................................................................... 70
3.4.1 3.4.2 3.4.3 CONNECTING A DRIVE FROM A PARTITION IMAGE............................................... 70 SELECTING AN ARCHIVE FILE.............................................................................. 71 DISCONNECTING A DRIVE ...................................................................................75
CONCLUSION .................................................................................................. 78 APPENDIX A. GENERAL INFORMATION. HARD DISKS ................................ 80 A.1 HARD DISK ORGANIZATION ...................................................................... 80 A.2 OPERATING SYSTEM AND HARD DISKS..................................................... 81 A.3 HARD DISK PARTITIONS ............................................................................ 82 A.4 CREATING PARTITIONS FOR OTHER OSES................................................. 83 A.5 PRIMARY AND LOGICAL PARTITIONS ........................................................ 83 A.6 FORMATTING HARD DISKS........................................................................ 84 A.7 FILE SYSTEMS............................................................................................ 85 APPENDIX B. GLOSSARY ............................................................................... 86
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What is Acronis TrueImage Deluxe Acronis TrueImage Deluxe is the first title in a new generation of software for creating exact images of hard disks (and partitions). It will let you store an image of your disk in an archive file on a hard disk or on one of numerous removable media, such as Iomega Zip or Jaz, CD-R(W) or DVD-R(W) disc. Having an exact copy of your hard disk, you will be able to restore its data at anytime  in case of a system error, virus infection, or even disk malfunction. With the help of a hard disk image and the Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software, you will be able to deploy a system on a new PC hard disk, i.e. install all operatings systems, applications without using installation disks/discs, and thus avoiding the re-set of all those system and program parameters. Having created an exact hard disk image, you can be assured that all your data, operating systems, and applications (along with all their related settings!) are safe. In case of an operating system error or a virus attack, you will be able to easily restore the content of your PC hard disk, having created its exact image with Acronis TrueImage Deluxe. If you need to restore only several files, Acronis TrueImage Deluxe will let you connect the stored file as a logical drive and copy all the files you need from it. The unique technology developed by Acronis Inc., and used in the TrueImage Deluxe software, will let you create exact disk images and restore your PC disk contents under Windows without rebooting. Acronis TrueImage Deluxe makes image creation and hard disk content restoration easy for users of any level. Irrespective of their qualification and PC experience, every user can truly use this software. The TRUE differences between Acronis TrueImage Deluxe and other back-up software: · The opportunity to create images of disks (and partitions), including system partitions, under Windows, without rebooting your computer. No other software for storing images of partitions (and disks) in archive files allows you to perform these functions under Windows! · The opportunity to restore partitions under Windows (with the except of system partitions or those containing swap files). At the point of partition restoration, Acronis TrueImage Deluxe will let you change its size and location on a disk, as well as its type and file system.
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· Convenient tools for restoration of separate files and folders from an archive file: you can connect a logical drive from an archived image and simply copying files. Connecting a logical drive from an image file means that you will be able to browse stored and encoded partition contents like any real disk partition in Windows or in a Windows Explorer window. (see Figure 3.24 below). · Unlike per-file back-up software, Acronis TrueImage Deluxe allows you to restore partitions even if they were deleted, formatted, had its Partition Table erased, or its disk bootsector infected by a virus! The software combines a convenient graphical user interface with exceptional simplicity and user availability. Back-up and restoration operations can be performed in several easy steps! Archive file An archive file is a file containing images of partitions 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, irrespective of their attributes (hidden, system, etc.), Master Boot Record (MBR), File Allocation Table (FAT), and a root directory (Root). Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software stores only the data sectors of a hard disk in its partition image. Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software creates an archive file with a '.tib' extension. The .tib file can contain images of several partitions and/or disks. An archive file of large disk partitions or several partitions (and disks) can become quite large. In this case Acronis TrueImage Deluxe will split the image into more than one archive volume or archive volume files. Splitting an archive into separate volumes may also be required for writing to removable media. Computer errors Unfortunately personal computers are not 100% reliable or foolproof  operating systems (OS) are subject to failures; application and hardware drivers can cause errors as well. The Internet brings additional information security problems such as the threat of virus infection and the computer's future inoperability. A hard disk also accumulates various «garbage» as a result of installing and removing software as well as decreases in the perfomance of your PC from continuous Internet access. PC hard disks can encounter critical errors when executable files and applications cannot be run and operating system cannot be loaded. In many
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cases this means that some system or data files are corrupt or newly updated driver are inoperable. Quite often it is extremely difficult to fix such problems, or even determine the exact software c ...
