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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

If your computer is not bootable, hopefully you made a bootable CD as explained in this tutorial.

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Download a free trial of the Acronis True Image 2009 software so you can try this tutorial on your own computer.

Post your Questions or Comments about Acronis True Image 2009

Comments	Date
By Randy	2008-10-30 09:59:59
Wish I did. I’ve been trying to get my hands on a HP to test this problem but haven’t had any luck. Are you using Acronis True Image 2009 or is this an older version? I was wondering if ATI 2009 worked on HP’s using the Startup Recovery Option which blows away the MBR. Let us know if you find a solution.
By Richard	2008-10-30 08:55:16
Of course I bought TI and THEN found this thread about HP machines. I ran a system partition backup via bootable CD, blew away this partition and tried to install to no avail, which is how I ended up here! Funny thing is, I can backup AND restore the actual HP Recovery partition, just not the system (C:) partition as I don't get the option to select the Disk...... Anyone with any thoughts??
By Geoffrey Cook	2008-10-28 14:00:56
How do restore if the Acronis image files are labled one through four? Thank you
By Randy	2008-10-18 13:01:52
You have to use an Acronis bootable CD to access the True Image program. Instructions for that task are located here: http://www.whatsabyte.com/P1/create_cd.htm
By k	2008-10-18 10:47:02
may I ask how to use True image for restore of the OS in case of OS failure. Sometimes when your windows is stuck at the XP running bar, and cant access the True Image program, so how? how to use True Image? I got True image 10
By Randy	2008-10-03 08:33:32
Yes Acronis True Image can backup and restore an image to a separate partition. Although that is not a recommended backup strategy because if the hard drive fails, you will not be able to recover the image. A separate hard drive or an external drive is recommended.
By sreedhav	2008-10-03 01:15:15
Hello, i have read the tutorials and if i have understood correctly the backup and restore is done "ideally"if i have another HDD installed.I have a 250 gb hard disk with partitions--,C,D,E andF.Partition F has only 56 GB space and can i backup the other partitions(High compression)to that drive and "RESTORE"? Kindly help!
By ganerix	2008-05-25 06:21:08
I have an hp 708uk pavilion pc with a built in system recovery partition. I have read that acronis 11 will not work with this. Is there a solution? Thank you
By Randy	2008-02-09 09:56:04
C - Yes. Acronis True Image allows you to restore a single partition or the entire drive.
By C	2008-02-08 09:58:53
When this program warns you that there are partitions on the drive you have chosen. Then select yes to delete all the partitions on the hard drive before restoring. Is it possible to just delete the single partition i.e C drive, so it leaves the other partitions alone, where I have data games etc located

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