User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.0 HOME

[. . . ] User's Guide Acronis True Image 9. 0 Home Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Snap Restore", "Acronis Recovery Manager, "Acronis Secure Zone" and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. [. . . ] Select the options for the restoration process (that is, restoration process priority, filelevel security settings etc. ). If the latter is the case, the settings will be applied only to the current restore task. Alternatively, you can edit the default options from the current screen. See 6. 4 Setting restore options for more information. 32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 12. The next selection allows you to keep useful data changes made since the selected backup was created. Choose what to do if the program finds in the target folder a file with the same name as in the archive. Overwrite existing file ­ this will give the archived file unconditional priority over the file on the hard disk. Overwrite existing file if it is older ­ this will give the priority to the most recent file modification, whether it be in the archive or on the disk Do not overwrite existing file ­ this will give the file on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived file. Up to this point, you can click Back to make changes in the created task. Please keep in mind that the aborted procedure still may cause changes in the destination folder. 6. 3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images To restore a partition (disk) from an image, Acronis True Image Home must obtain exclusive access to the target partition (disk). If you receive a message stating that the partition (disk) can not be blocked, close applications that use this partition (disk) and start over. If you can not determine which applications use the partition (disk), close them all. 6. 3. 1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard 1. Invoke the Restore Data Wizard by clicking on the restore operation icon in the main program window. Click Next. Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 33 6. 3. 2 Archive selection 1. If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to choose the archive at the next step. If the archive is located on removable media, e. g. CD, first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when Restore Data Wizard prompts. If you added a comment to the archive, it will be displayed to the right of the drives tree. If the archive was protected with a password, Acronis True Image Home will ask for it. The partitions layout, the comment and the Next button will be unavailable until you enter the correct password. If you are to restore data from an archive, containing incremental backups, Acronis True Image Home will suggest that you select one of successive incremental backups by its creation date/time. Thus, you can roll back the disk/partition state to a certain date. To restore data from an incremental backup, you must have all previous incremental backup files and the initial full backup. To restore data from a differential backup, you must have the initial full backup as well. 4. Select what you want to restore: 34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 Restore specified files or folders With this selection, you will be further offered to select where to restore selected folders/files (original or new location), choose files/folders to be restored and so on. However, watch your selection: if you are to restore files instead of disk/partition, uncheck the unnecessary folders. [. . . ] After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in BIOS, one can say that the PC (or the motherboard) «knows» about its existence and its main parameters. However, it is still not enough for an operating system to work with the hard disk. 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 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 Copyright © Acronis, Inc. , 2000-2006 77 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 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. [. . . ]