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Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 What is Acronis True Image Home?
Acronis True Image Home solves all backup problems, ensuring the safety of all information
on your PC. Using it, you can back up selected files and folders, or entire disks and
partitions.
If failures occur that block access to information or affect system operation, or if you
accidentally delete necessary files, you'll be able to easily restore the system and lost data.
The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image Home
allows you to create exact, sector-by-sector disk backups, including all operating systems,
applications and configuration files, software updates, personal settings and all of your data.
You can store backups on almost any PC storage device: local hard drives, network drives or
a variety of IDE, SCSI, FireWire (IEEE-1394), USB (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) and PC Card (formerly
called PCMCIA) removable media drives, as well as CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW,
magneto-optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.
If you are going to install a new hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Home will help you
transfer information from the old one in minutes, including operating systems, applications,
documents and personal settings.
Wizards and a user-friendly, Windows XP-styled interface will make your work more
convenient. Just answer a few simple questions and let Acronis True Image Home take care
of everything else! When a system problem occurs, the software will get you up and running
in short order.
1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.0 Home
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Support for Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
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Direct backup to DVD and bootable DVD creation
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User-editable default restore options – Users can configure and save restore
parameters, such as files overwriting mode, the original or current date and time for
restored files etc.
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File-level security settings - preserving files' security settings in the archive, storing
encrypted files in encrypted or decrypted state
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Read-write mode of mounting images
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Including MBR in partition images, an option to restore MBR from a disk or partition
image
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Bootable backup media – When backing up to removable media, users can make this
media bootable in the same manner as a rescue CD, so separate recover media is not
required
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One bootable media for all Acronis products - Writing standalone versions of other
Acronis products to bootable media
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Bootable disks ISOs – In addition to burning a bootable rescue disk, users can save its
ISO image for burning later
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