User manual ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE

[. . . ] Acronis TrueImage Deluxe User's guide Acronis TrueImage Deluxe Copyright © SWsoft, 2002. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademarks of IBM Corporation. UNIX is a registered trademarks of The Open Group. [. . . ] Click Proceed to execute a partition and/or disk image creation script. 2. 1. 11 Creating an image You will see the image (several images, perhaps) creation script progress window. Figure 2. 13. Image creation process This window will contain the estimated time of image creation in addition to the main partition (disk) features, which image is being created. 48 2 : Creating disk/partition images 2. 1. 12 Finishing image creation Image creation procedure finishes by way of such a message: Figure 2. 14. Finishing image creation Clicking Exit closes Acronis TrueImage Deluxe. In this certain case a partition with 689 MB of data was compressed to a 267 MB archive file. (We remind that these values are very rough, as files of different types can be compressed very differently. ) 2. 2 2. 2. 1 Creating a disk/partition image on removable media Selecting a partition and an action The initial stages of working with Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software, when creating a partition and/or disk image on removable media, are the same as when creating it on a hard disk. It is started with the welcome window (Figure 2. 1); then you select an action to be performed (Create image of a partition or the whole hard disk drive; Figure 2. 2); then you select partition(s) and/or disk(s) to create images of (Figure 2. 3). Now you should set the switch to Removable disk drive in the Image Archive Location window (Figure 2. 4). 2. 2. 2 Selecting a removable disk drive Having clicked Next, you'll see a list of removable media drives, connected to your PC, in the next window (Figure 2. 15). The most popular devices of Acronis TrueImage Deluxe 49 this type include Iomega Zip, CD-R, CD-RW drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, magneto-optical drives, and some other. Anyway, all removable media drives, connected to your PC, will be enumerated in this list. In the given case there's only LG CD-RW 8080B (8x/4x/32x) recorder in it, except a usual 3. 5'' floppy drive. Figure 2. 15. Available removable media drives Click a drive you want to create a partition and/or disk image on. 2. 2. 3 The following actions In the next window you'll be asked an archive file name (Figure 2. 16). It's completely the same as the window on the figure above. However, creating images in archive files on a CD-R or CD-RW differs from creating images in archive files on a hard disk: · A filename length can't exceed 24 symbols (including a dot and three extension symbols); · A file is created in the root of a CD; · No need to enter a file path, i. e. a filename isn't entered like, for example, G:\back-up1. tib (where G: is a recorder drive), but simply like backup1. tib, as you have chosen a drive in the previous window; · If Acronis TrueImage will find a file with the entered name on a CD-RW disk, it will replace it with a new one. 50 2 : Creating disk/partition images Figure 2. 16. An archive file name for CD-R(W) recording If a CD-RW disk already has an archive file, created earlier by Acronis TrueImage Deluxe, the software will be able to append one (or several) more archive files to the disk, having enough free space. If a CD has been recorded by another software, Acronis TrueImage Deluxe won't be able to record an archive file to it, even having enough free space. Click Next to continue. All the following pages of the partition (disk) image creation wizard are completely the same as the above (Figure 2. 8 ­ Figure 2. 11) including: · Selecting a compression level, · Splitting an archive file into volumes, · Protecting an archive file with a password, · Commenting an archive file, and finish with the script window. When creating an image in an archive file on removable media (CD-RW), you can leave the default Automatic setting in the Image Archive Splitting window. Working with removable media, Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software will automatically determine the number of CD-RW disks, needed to create an image, and will prompt you to insert a new disk into the drive if needed. CD-R, CD-RW recording begins with a prompt to insert the first disk into the drive (Figure 2. 18). Acronis TrueImage Deluxe 51 2. 2. 4 The script window Having commented an archive file, you'll get to the script window of image creation in an archive file on removable media (Figure 2. 17). Figure 2. 17. [. . . ] Partition tables are usually stored in the first sector of a cylinder. The process of creating the partition logical structure on a hard disk. Partitioning is usually done with programs like FDISK. The partition, information about which is contained in the MBR partition table. [. . . ]