Acronis Startup Recovery Manager - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0 User Manual

General program information
Acronis Secure Zone deletion will automatically disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if it
is activated and destroy all images stored in the zone.
Acronis Secure Zone can be located on basic disks only. (A basic disk is a physical disk
without any dynamic disks.) If a server has only dynamic disks, you will not be able to create
the Acronis Secure Zone.
To run Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows in standalone mode and quickly restore
system partitions from images, we recommend that you install the system to a basic disk,
creating the Acronis Secure Zone on the same or another disk that does not contain dynamic
disks.
Upgrading a disk with an Acronis Secure Zone from basic to dynamic will prevent access to
the Acronis Secure Zone and disable the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. Therefore, we
suggest that you delete the Acronis Secure Zone before performing such an operation.
3.3

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows provides Acronis Startup Recovery
Manager that enables to run the program without loading the operating system.
This feature is useful if Windows won't load for some reason. Using it, you can run
Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows by itself to restore damaged partitions
from images.
To use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager (it must be activated), turn on your
server and press F11, when you see the "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery
Manager" message. This will run a standalone version of Acronis True Image Server
8.0 for Windows that only slightly differs from the Windows version. For information
on restoring damaged partitions see Chapter 5.
Be careful! Disk letters in standalone Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows might
sometimes differ from Windows notation.
To activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, click Activate Acronis Startup
Recovery Manager.
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager cannot be activated if Acronis Secure Zone is
missing on the hard disk. If you have not created this Zone before, you will be
prompted to do it (see section 3.2.1 above), then Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
will be activated. Otherwise, Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated
immediately.
When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated it overwrites the Master Boot Record
(MBR) with its own boot code. If you have any third party boot managers installed, then you
will have to reactivate them after activating the Startup Recovery Manager. For Linux loaders
(e.g. LiLo and GRUB) you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition
boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
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