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 some "free" software, 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 review.
Acronis
True Image 2012 - Complete disk imaging and system
disk backup for home PCs
Acronis True Image 2012
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Acronis True Image 2012 has just been released with some exciting new features to keep your Computer and files safely backed up and quickly accessible. The new version has new file synchronization capabilities to sync files with multiple Computers and new network backup with enhanced Network Attached Storage (NAS) support. The hard drive backup and imaging program still has all of the useful features as before with some great improvements including virtual hard drive support and the Universal Restore feature which allows you to restore an image to dissimilar hardware or a virtual machine. Acronis True Image Home 2012 now integrates with Windows 7 and includes an online backup solution to keep your files safe, secure and available. See the Review of Acronis True Image Home 2012 here.
 $49.99
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Acronis True Image 2012 Plus Pack
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The Acronis Plus Pack incorporates features that were until now only available in the Acronis Corporate editions. The add on feature adds the power to restore images to dissimilar hardware, Dynamic Disk Support to restore dynamic volumes easily and the added Microsoft Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE) Support to speed up your recovery process. The Plus Pack makes the move to a new computer a breeze.
$29.99
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