User manual ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 6.0

[. . . ] User's Guide TrueImage 6. 0 Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000-2002. 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. [. . . ] When you store a partition, you can do it directly under Windows or from a bootable CD. If you need to restore individual files only, you'll be able to work directly under Windows. However, if your system or a system partition (usually the primary one) is damaged, it gets more complex. In this situation there's only way to restore everything: booting from a diskette, created with Acronis TrueImage, or from a bootable CD with Acronis TrueImage. You can run Acronis TrueImage from a CD and then replace a bootable disk with an archive file CD, containing the image of a partition to be restored. But an archive file can be possibly stored on a special back-up hard disk. So, the main thing for partition restoration is the availability of a bootable media (a diskette or CD), created with Acronis TrueImage, and also the access to an archive file with a partition image (on a hard disk or removable media). 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. 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. [. . . ] track physical location of files on disks. 36 Appendix A : Partitions and File Systems Different operating systems use different file systems. Some operating systems are able to work with only one file system while other can use several of them. A. 2. 1 FAT16 FAT16 file system is widely used by DOS (DR-DOS, MS-DOS, PC-DOS, PTS-DOS and other), Windows 95/98/ME, Windows NT/2000/XP operating systems and is supported by most other systems. Main features of FAT16 are the file allocation table (FAT) and clusters. [. . . ]