Monday, December 15, 2008

Acronis True Image Tutorial

Hard Drive Image Restore using Acronis True Image

You took an image of your hard drive using Acronis True Image in the last tutorial and now something has happened to your computer. Maybe you stepped in some scumware or somebody installed AOL instant messenger, which is a virus in itself, anyway your computer is not as healthy as it was. Not a problem. Acronis makes it just as easy to restore an image of your hard drive as it was to create the image in the first place. This review of Acronis True Image shows how easy it is to recover a hard drive with the Operating System and all aplications intact.

Open up the Acronis True Image program and choose the Recovery option.

Choose Recovery

Browse out to the image file that you created when your system was healthy. Hopefully you stored it in a safe place. This image was stored on another internal hard drive.

Select the Image file

This following image file was stored on a Lacie 250 gig external drive. Just to show you that you can use an external drive to do a full restore of the image. it does not really matter where you decide to store the image as long as it is in a safe accessible place.

Choose to restore disks or partitions.

Choose to restore disks or partitions

Choose where to restore the image. In this case, the image will be restored to Disk 1.

Choose which disk to restore

Then choose the hard disk drive location that the image will be placed. Be sure to choose your main drive.

Select a disk to restore to

Acronis True Image will warn you that there are partitions on the drive you have chosen and ask what you want to do with them. Select yes to delete all the partitions on the hard drive before restoring. The program does not know that the partitions are infected with something. Click next to get to the following screen that tells you what operations will be performed. Check this screen carefully to make sure that it is what you want to do, then click Proceed.

Acronis shows what it is going to do - check carefully

Of course, you are restoring an image to the drive you are using so you will be prompted that a reboot is necessary. Just click reboot.

Reboot

In just a few minutes, your hard drive will be restored to that perfect state it was in when you first made the image. Acronis has made hard drive imaging and restoration that simple.

On a scale of Bytes to Brontobytes, the Acronis True Image disk restore process gets a Brontobyte. It just works and it's easy.

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