User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 6.0

[. . . ] User's Guide TrueImage 6. 0 Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2002. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. [. . . ] After you ran the software from a diskette or a CD and got to Acronis TrueImage welcome window, the further steps should not be of any difficulty to you. 18 Chapter 3 : Restoring a Disk/Partition from an Image 3. 1 Selecting an Archive File To restore a disk/partition from an archive file you must set the switch to Restore a partition or the whole hard disk drive or deploy a new PC in the Action Selection window. Selecting an action: 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 able to navigate the files and folders tree, using standard Windows controls, to find the archive file with the image of a partition to be restored and select it by clicking. Selecting an archive file Acronis TrueImage 19 If you commented the archive file when creating it, the description will help you understand if you selected the right archive file or the partition image is located in some other file. Your comment will be shown in the right part of the Image Archive Selection window. Notice that a comment is available without entering a password that protects an archive file. However, you won't be able to either restore, or browse archive file contents without a password. Contents of a password unprotected archive file The more detailed is your comment, the more assured your actions 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 drivers, to restore one of them if needed. Having made sure that you are to restore a partition from the right archive file, click Next to continue. So, if an archive file is protected with a password, Acronis TrueImage will prompt you for it in the next window. You won't be able to move to the next wizard page, i. e. to continue the restoration without entering a password, as the Next key will be disabled. If you enter the right password, you'll be able to move to the page of selecting a partition to be restored. 20 Chapter 3 : Restoring a Disk/Partition from an Image 3. 2 Selecting a Partition to Be Restored One archive file may contain images of several disk partitions or the whole disks. Therefore the next window will offer you the contents of the selected archive file. Select a partition for restoration by clicking the appropriate rectangle. It will become underlined red (by default). Selecting a partition to be restored from 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 restoration parameters for it first, and then repeat this for all other. You'll be able to return to the Source Partition Selection window if needed after setting the partition restoration parameters and mark another partition (disk) for restoration. A partition you set restoration parameters of will be marked with an icon in the upper right corner. Acronis TrueImage 21 3. 3 Selecting a Destination Partition As it has been said above, you can restore a partition image, stored in an archive file, to a new hard disk. In the same way you can restore contents of a stored partition to another partition. For example, you could have stored logical drive D: data in an archive file. You would like this data to be restored to the logical drive E: on a new hard disk. Acronis TrueImage software allows to do this as well. In the Restored Partition Location window click a partition, to which you'd like to restore the data to. [. . . ] Usually cluster size is selected as minimum as possible so that the resulting number of clusters is less than 65526. The larger the partition size, the larger the cluster has to be. Most of operating systems incorrectly perform with 128sector clusters, thus reducing the maximum FAT16 partition size to 2 gigabytes. Usually the larger the cluster size the more disk space is wasted. Like many others, FAT16 file system has a root folder. Unlike others however, its root folder is stored in a special place and is limited in size (standard formatting produces a 512-item root folder). [. . . ]