User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 8.0

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image 8. 0 Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Though this operation is relatively simple, we do not recommend that inexperienced users perform it themselves; you should have a professional to do it. If you still want to do this yourself, see Appendix B. If a PC doesn't have a bay for another hard disk, you can temporarily install it in place of your CD-ROM. If it's still impossible, you can clone a hard disk by creating its image and restoring it to a new hard disk with larger partitions. There are two transfer modes available: automatic and manual. In the automatic mode, you will only have to take several simple actions to transfer all the data, including partitions, folders and files, to a newer disk, making it bootable if the original disk was bootable. There will be only one difference between these disks ­ partitions on the newer disk will be larger. Everything else, including the installed operating systems, data, disk labels, settings, software and everything else on the disk will remain the same. Of course, this is the only result available in the automatic mode. The program can only duplicate the original disk layout to the new one. To obtain a different result, you will have to answer additional questions about cloning parameters. The manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility. You will be able to select the method of partition and data transfer: · as is · new disk space is proportionally distributed between the old disk partitions · new disk space is distributed manually 2. You will also be able to select operations to perform on the old disk: 38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk · leave partitions (and data!) on the old disk · remove all information from the old disk · Create new partitions on the old disk (and remove all the older information) On all screenshots below, damaged partitions are marked with a red circle and a white cross inside in the upper left corner. Before you start cloning, you should check such disks for errors using corresponding operating system tools. 7. 2 Security Please note the following: if the power go out or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer, the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again. No data will be lost on the old disk though; they were only being read (no partitions were changed or resized). Nevertheless, we do not recommend that you delete data from the old disk until you are sure it is correctly transferred to the new disk, the PC boots up from it and all applications work. 7. 3 Executing transfers Selecting transfer mode You will see the Select transfer mode window just after the welcome window. Transfer mode selection Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 39 Transferring the system to a new disk We recommend using automatic mode in most cases. The manual mode can be useful if you need to change the disk partition layout. If the program finds two disks, one partitioned and another unpartitioned, it will automatically recognize the source disk as the partitioned disk and the destination disk as the unpartitioned disk, so the next two steps will be bypassed. Selecting source disk If the program finds several partitioned disks, it will ask you which is the source (i. e. the older data disk). You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window (disk number, capacity, label, partition and file system information). Selecting destination disk After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination where the disk information will be copied. 40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 Transferring the system to a new disk The previously selected source becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection. If either disk is unpartitioned, the program will automatically recognize it as destination and bypass this step. Partitioned destination disk At this point, the program checks to see if the destination disk is free. If not, you will be prompted by the Partitioned destination disk window stating that the destination disk contains partitions, perhaps with data. You can continue once existing partitions are deleted Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 41 Transferring the system to a new disk You will have to select between: · Delete partitions on the destination hard disk ­ all existing partitions will be deleted during cloning and all their data will be lost. · No, I do not want to delete partitions ­ no existing partition will be deleted, discontinuing the cloning operation. You will only be able to cancel this operation and return to select another disk. To continue, select the first choice and click Next. Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this moment!All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed, after the script is formed. Old and new disk partition layout If you selected the automatic mode before, the program will ask you for nothing further. You will see the window graphically illustrating information (as rectangles) about the source disk (partitions and unallocated space) and the destination disk layout. [. . . ] However, it is still not enough for an operating system to work with the hard disk. 74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 Appendix B Hard disks and BIOS setup B. 2. 4 AwardBIOS Below, we provide an example of configuring hard disks in AwardBIOS. The Main AwardBIOS menu, which is responsible for configuring hard disks on motherboards for Celeron, Pentium II-III and AMD-K6/K7 processors usually looks like this: AwardBIOS Setup Utility Main System Time System Date Legacy Diskette A Legacy Diskette B Floppy 3 Mode Support Primary Master Primary Slave Secondary Master Secondary Slave Language Supervisor Password User Password Halt On Installed Memory Advanced Power [16:16:35] [01/10/2001] [1. 44M, 3. 5in] [None] [Disabled] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [Auto] [English] [Disabled] [Disabled] [All but Disk/Keyboard] [Disabled] Boot Exit Item Specific Help: <Enter> to go to submenu. F1 Help Select Item -/+ Change Values F5 Setup Defaults Esc Exit Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 75 Appendix B Hard disks and BIOS setup Place the marker on the Primary Master line and press the Enter key to get to the screen that looks like this: AwardBIOS Setup Utility Main Primary Master [Auto] Type [Auto] Item Specific Help: <Enter> to select the type of the IDE drive. Warning: Ultra DMA Mode 3/4/5 can be enabled only when BIOS detects Shielded 80-pin cable. F1 Help Select Item -/+ Change Values F5 Setup Defaults Esc Exit Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit Place the marker on the value of the Type parameter ([Auto] in this case) and press the Enter key to open the list of possible values of this parameter; for example: None Auto User Type HDD CD-ROM LS-120 ZIP-100 MO Other ATAPI Device 76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000­2004 Appendix B Hard disks and BIOS setup Use the Up and Down keys to select the User Type HDD value and press the Enter key to get to the following screen: AwardBIOS Setup Utility Main Primary Master [User Type HDD] Type Translation Mode Cylinders Head Sector CHS Capacity Maximum LBA Capacity Multi Sector Transfer SMART Monitoring PIO Mode Ultra DMA Mode [User Type HDD] [LBA] [. . . . . . . . . 0] [. . . . . . 0] [. . . 0] 0MB 0MB [Maximum] [Disabled] [4] [5] Item Specific Help: <Enter> to select the type of the IDE drive. Warning: Ultra DMA Mode 3/4/5 can be enabled only when BIOS detects Shielded 80-pin cable. F1 Help Select Item -/+ Change Values F5 Setup Defaults Esc Exit Select Menu Enter Select Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit Enter the values of Translation Mode, Cylinders, Head and Sector parameters (you can find them on the case of the hard disk) to finish the initial configuring of the hard disk with BIOS. [. . . ]