Acronis true image system copying. Transferring the system to a new disk using Acronis. Disk backup options
Program ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE allows you to create an exact image of the hard drive (by sector), including the operating system along with applications, updates, and also saves all settings, etc. Almost any storage device can be used to capture the image.
Minimum system requirements:- Processor: Pentium or equivalent.
- Memory 64 Mb.
- Free disk space 20 Mb.
Supported Operating Systems:
- Windows NT
- Windows 98
- Windows ME
- Windows 2000
- Windows XP
Installing the Acronis program.
Installation is carried out as standard using the Wizard. When choosing an installation type, if you are not limited by hard disk space, specify the full type.
An example of image creation and recovery using Acronis.
Launch the program and select the task to create an archive.
In the pop-up window you will be greeted by the Backup Wizard, click the "Next" button.
Then in the next window, select the backup type, using this option you can create an exact copy (image). In this example, select “The entire hard disk or individual partitions on it” and click the “Next” button. In the next window of the Backup Wizard, select the partition from which you want to make an image. In this example, drive (C).
Click the button Further, an information window will pop up → OK. In the next window, select the location to save the backup. For example, we created an Acronis folder on disk ( D) and press the button " Creating a new file name" → Further.
In the next window, check the box "Create a full archive" → Next. Leave the backup settings as default → Next. In the next window you can leave your comments, then the “Preparing to create a data archive is completed” window will open. Click Proceed to begin the operation. We are waiting for the operation to complete → OK.
The Acronis program created an exact image of the hard drive (C) and compressed the information to 2.13 GB.
Let's move on to restoring the disk from the existing image.
Now let's assume that we have some trouble and we need to restore drive (C). Double-click on the image → a window opens → Next
In the Data Recovery Wizard pop-up window, we can select one of the recovery types: recover disks or partitions, recover files or folders. For example, we will select 1 item and click the “Next” button. In the next window we specify the partition to be restored.
In the next window we indicate the location of the partition to be restored. To select a section, click the left mouse button. If there is not enough space, this section will not be available → further.
In the next window, select Restart computer.
All the following actions are performed step by step and are logically understandable. Acronis will completely restore disk (C) with all settings and programs within a few minutes.
Acronis Disk Director– one of the most powerful software packages for working with drives.
Today we’ll figure out how to use Acronis Disk Director 12, and specifically, what steps need to be taken when installing a new hard drive into the system.
First of all, you need to connect the hard drive to the motherboard, but we will not describe this step, since it does not quite fit the topic of the article and usually does not cause difficulties for users. The main thing is to remember to turn off your computer before connecting.
So, the hard drive is connected. We start the machine and, in the folder "Computer", we don’t see any (new) disk.
It's time to turn to Acronis for help. We launch it and find an uninitialized disk in the list of devices. For further work, the drive must be initialized, so click on the corresponding menu button.
The initialization window appears. Choosing a partition structure MBR and disk type "Base". These options are appropriate for drives used to install the operating system or to store files. Click "OK".
Creating a section
Now let's create a section. Click on the disk ( "Unoccupied space") and press the button "Create Volume". In the window that opens, select the partition type "Base" and press "Further".
Select our unallocated space from the list and again "Further".
In the next window, we are asked to assign a drive letter and label, specify the partition size, file system and other properties.
We leave the size as it is (the entire disk), we also do not change the file system, as well as the cluster size. We assign the letter and label at our discretion.
If the disk is going to be used to install the operating system, then it must be made Primary, this is important.
Preparation is complete, click "Complete".
Application of operations
In the upper left corner there are buttons for canceling actions and applying pending operations. At this stage, you can still go back and correct some parameters.
We are happy with everything, so we click on the big yellow button.
We carefully check the parameters and, if everything is correct, then click "Continue".
Done, the new hard drive has appeared in the folder "Computer" and ready to go.
Like this, with the help Acronis Disk Director 12, we installed and prepared a new hard drive for use. There are, of course, system tools for performing these actions, but working with Acronis is easier and more pleasant (author’s opinion).
Hello, friends! I bring to your attention an article in which I will show you how to backup all partitions of the hard drive of a new laptop with Windows 8 installed in the Acronis True Image 13 program. I want to say that in this program you can make a backup copy of any partition of the hard drive separately or all partitions together (as you wish).
In the second part of the article, we will look at restoring a laptop from this backup in case it does not boot due to any errors. True Image 13 is a paid program, but nevertheless, you receive a lot of letters asking for a detailed review of it (especially when working with new laptops and GPT (GUID Partition Table) style hard drives.
This is what they say on the official website of the program!
Creating a backup copy of a laptop hard drive in Acronis True Image 13
Note: A full backup of the hard drive of a laptop or a simple computer can be made not only using the Acronis True Image 13 program, there are several other free methods. For example, or, if interested, follow the links and read the articles. It will be very great if you play it safe and periodically use at least two methods to backup the hard drive of your computer or laptop.
In this article we will talk about the Acronis True Image 13 program, which, in my opinion, deserves a special mention on our website and here’s why.
I am sure you will be interested in our new articles about Acronis True Image.
Firstly, Acronis True Image is specially designed to create backup copies of operating systems and restore from these backup copies, under the most unfavorable circumstances, for example, you can recover even when your computer or laptop does not boot.
Secondly, Acronis True Image 13 is compatible with the new Windows 8 operating system.
Acronis can create a backup image of all or any partition of the hard drive (including Windows) of your computer or laptop, netbook separately and restore it (them) in place if necessary.
For comparison, if you use the Recovery program built into a laptop to create a backup, then using it you can only backup all partitions of the hard drive together and restore them together, which will entail the loss of all information on the computer, laptop, or netbook.
If you use the built-in archiving tools of Windows 8 and Windows 7 to create a backup image, then the created image cannot be renamed and transferred anywhere, and the hard drive after creating the image cannot be further divided into partitions, since after this there is a high risk of not being restored from the backup image.
Using Acronis True Image, you can create a backup copy of anything and transfer it anywhere; when restoring, Acronis will definitely find its backup.
Acronis True Image can move your operating system to another hard drive partition, or to another hard drive altogether, or even to another computer. The backup copy can be divided into parts and renamed. Once upon a time, many years ago, I became acquainted with this program and still work with it, do not consider this as advertising. Imagine, you install an operating system, then install about a hundred programs into it for working with text, video, graphics, the Internet, accounting, and so on, almost every program has its own installation features, and it sometimes takes you several days to do everything. And in the end, you create an archival backup of everything that you may have to work with for several years and then work calmly without fear that your operating system will crash or become inoperable for some reason. You can restore it at any time using the program... Acronis True Image 13 Nowadays, most computers and laptops are sold with Windows 8 installed and the UEFI interface instead of the BIOS, therefore, the hard drive on such devices has a new style of placing GPT partition tables (GUID Partition Table). The latest version of Acronis True Image 13 works stably with such devices. But even if you do not have a new computer and the hard drive has an outdated MBR partition table, then Acronis True Image 13 will handle it even better.
On the official website http://www.acronis.ru/ you will find more information about the program. Choose "For Home"
and you will be able to download and install a trial version of the program for free, with which you can create an archived image of the operating system, consider all its capabilities, but you cannot only do one thing - restore from a backup image. To do this you will have to purchase the program. Creating a backup image in Acronis True Image 13 In the main program window, select Backup and Restore.
Backup disks and partitions.
Look carefully out the window Managing my laptop's disks, you can see two hard drives in it, the first Disk 0 has four partitions:
The first partition: System, hidden, capacity 1.00 GB, healthy (Recovery partition), this is the service partition of the laptop.
Second partition: Unnamed, hidden, volume 260 MB Healthy (Encrypted (EFI) system partition) belongs to the operating system.
Third partition: volume 687 GB, installed Windows 8 operating system, that is, drive C:
Fourth partition: Recovery, hidden, capacity 10.75 GB, Good (Recovery partition), this partition contains files with the factory settings of your laptop.
Acronis True Image 13 offers to include all existing laptop partitions in the backup image. If you just bought a laptop or computer, then my advice to you. First of all, create a complete backup image of all partitions of your laptop’s hard drive, as the program suggests. To do this, it is best to switch to disk mode, but before that we look at what will be included in our backup image.
Click Switch to disk mode.
We tick the hard drive of our Toshiba laptop, now we need to select the location of the image to be created, click “Browse”.
In the left window, select our portable USB hard drive My Passport (E:), left-click on it and click OK. Give the name of the backup copy in Latin or leave it as default, in my case – TOSHIBA MQ01. Click OK.
If you now click the Archive button, the process of creating a backup image of the laptop will begin, but before that, let's select the Backup Options button.
I want to say that they are configured optimally by default, but still some points are worthy of attention. For example, you can split the backup into several parts. I'll set this option to "Automatic"
Be sure to check the box "Archive in sector-by-sector mode"
And "Check the backup after it is created." Click OK.
Archive.
The process of creating a backup copy of the entire laptop hard drive begins.
After successfully creating a backup archive, look at where exactly our backup image was created on a portable USB hard drive, folder E:\My backups\TOSHIBA MQ01.
Creating bootable media for Acronis True Image 13
Now be sure to create bootable media. The natural question is why. Friends, you need to create bootable Acronis True Image 13 media in case of an emergency. For example, your laptop will not boot due to errors and even our article will not help you restore it. Then we boot from bootable media (CD or flash drive) and restore our laptop from the backup image. How to do this is described in detail later in the article. But first, let's create bootable media.
In the main program window, click on the Create bootable media button.
I select the drive and create a bootable disk with Acronis True Image 13. If you want to create a bootable flash drive, connect it and it will appear in this window. Further.
Get started.
Bootable media has been created.
Recovery process using Acronis True Image 13 boot disk
You can also restore Windows 8 using Acronis True Image 13 from a running system; run True Image 13 and select restore.
Caution: If you backed up only the C: drive, then all data on it will be replaced by the data from the backup copy. If you have created a backup archive of your entire hard drive, then all the information on your hard drive will be replaced with the data from the backup.
But usually, recovery using Acronis True Image is resorted to in extreme cases, that is, when the laptop does not boot at all and you cannot do without the program’s boot disk.
Let's imagine this situation: our laptop won't boot! This can happen for many reasons. For example, we were experimenting with creating new partitions on our laptop and accidentally deleted the service partition with the Windows 8 download files. Or you decided to reinstall Windows 8 on Windows 7, but something didn’t work out for you and now nothing loads on your laptop, except for errors on a black screen. Or maybe you successfully reinstalled Windows 8 on Windows 7, but after using Windows 7 for a while, you decided to return the laptop to its original factory state.
For example, as an experiment, I deleted all partitions on the laptop hard drive
and now I will perform a recovery operation. I want to keep you from such experiments, no need to abuse your laptop unnecessarily.
Note: To restore from a backup archive, first of all you need to enter the UEFI BIOS of our laptop and disable the "Secure Boot" option ( There is no need to disable the UEFI option! ),
otherwise, when you boot your laptop from the Acronis True Image 13 boot disk, you will receive an error. If you don't know how to do this, read our article ".
So, we boot our laptop from Acronis True Image 13 bootable media (CD or flash drive). If you don’t know, follow the link and read.
For example, my laptop can be booted from disk if immediately after turning it on, I frequently press the F-12 key. The boot menu appears. I choose a DVD-ROM with an Acronis True Image 13 boot disk.
Select True Image
Sorry for the quality of the photos, but I carry out the operation of creating a backup archive, as well as restoring from it, on a real laptop, and not on a virtual machine. So it's all for real.
Disk recovery.
Review.
We find the backup archive of Windows 8. It is located on our portable USB hard drive My Passport (E:), in the folder My backups\TOSHIBA MQ01
Select it with the left mouse and click OK.
Check the box "In sector-by-sector mode"
Check the box for "Disk 1" and all other partitions
Check the "Restore disk signature" option and click Next.
The program shows what will be restored and in what order. Get started.
The process of restoring our laptop begins.
Hello! Today I will write about a wonderful product Acronis! Reinstall Windows in minutes using Acronis True Image!
NEW 2019!!!This method can restore any system. Both 32 bit and 64 bit systems. This method supports UEFI.
What do we do?
Imagine this situation. You often reinstall Windows. It doesn’t matter what (there is a difference, only with Xp, more often BSOD due to the SATA driver) That is, you, roughly speaking, are an assistant to the system administrator and every day you need to install 7-64 or 7-32 again on a new computer. That is, roughly speaking, you constantly waste your energy on the same thing.
You split the disk, install the same programs, then the antivirus. Then the drivers. And so every day
Today, there will be a lesson - how to make your life easier and it will be related to restoring an Acronis image to another computer
Reinstalling Windows Acronis .Tib is when you either download someone’s system on the Internet in the Tib image (or take your own) and “dress” it under your hardware.
What kind of image.Tib is so magical?
A man bought a laptop and it came with Windows 7 64 bit. He made a full copy of his Windows 7 64 using a bootable USB flash drive with Acronis True Image. Now, it can be restored to a similar laptop, and, if desired, to any computer (of course, the processor must support 64-bit mode to install Windows 7 64)
That is what I mean. You have installed Windows once. Then we made an Acronis image similar to the one I gave a link to above. Now, if you have a bootable USB flash drive with Acronis
Using such a boot disk with acronis (or a bootable flash drive link above), you can restore a pre-created image in a few minutes. And create an image with Windows installed. Any
Tips for creating this look:
Do not install drivers or activate software when preparing the image
So, let's imagine that we already have an image in Tib format made from the installed system, created by us with all the programs and with the necessary files. In this example, I will use my copy of 7 64-bit, weighing only 3 gigs (are you shocked by the size =D?)
Now let's imagine that we have a computer on which we need to restore this Acronis image. It is located on a flash drive or on a portable hard drive.
After we have approached the new computer on which we will restore the Tib image. Turn on the computer. Insert a bootable USB flash drive with acronis or a boot disk with acronis. Now in bios or uefi we set it to boot from disk (if you have a boot disk) or from a bootable flash drive (if you have a bootable flash drive).
So, as we use a bootable USB flash drive, when booting we will be taken to the Acronis menu.
First select Disk Director to remove the Windows disk or, if it’s a new hard drive, to initialize it. If you have 32-bit Windows, select 32-bit Acronis Disk Director or 64, if not.
Select Acronis True Image and restore Windows from the Tib archive
Now we have this picture
Let's restore this image
Press right button Restore - Recover disks and partitions - Select everything, except MBR. If you restore the MBR too, you will not be able to resize the disks. As the cast was made, so it will be restored
Now, we choose how to restore a boot disk with a size of 350 meters (megabytes). I will restore it to the created partition of 300 meters (created using a bootable flash drive with Acronis Disk Director)
Click New Storage- You will have several disks here. Or an unmarked area. Here you need to be extremely careful and not delete data. In my case, I have only one disk, 15 GB in size. I select it and create a section of 300 meters - Click Further- And so on according to the screenshots below
We're loading the car. Drumroll. Everything worked out!
Once your hands are sharpened, this operation lasts only 10-15 minutes. In 10-15 minutes, the Windows 7 you configured with programs is restored to a regular hard drive (not an SSD). All that remains is to install the drivers. In total, if you also have DriverPack, such a reinstallation takes only 20 minutes. Isn't it bad?
You can also read other articles on the topic "Windows 8.1, 7, XP"
Restoring an operating system after a serious unexpected failure is, alas, not as simple a task as many users and manufacturers of numerous “miracle utilities” imagine. Despite its importance, usefulness and relevance, most of the available software suffers from many shortcomings. The saddest thing is the active promotion of “half-hearted” solutions by Microsoft itself, because the means of creating “restore points”, which appeared in Windows a very long time ago, cannot be called an exhaustive solution.
What can those users do who want to have real insurance in case of an emergency? There are disappointingly few high-quality utilities designed to ensure the restoration (note, complete) of the operating system, and most of them are designed for a trained user or even a system administrator.
Convenient and easy to use program
Acronis True Image Home (ATIH) is a rare example of a utility that is friendly to the average user, which not only performs its functions of resuscitating a fallen system, but also does it in the most understandable and accessible form. The user will still be required to have some knowledge of the OS's operating features, but with some desire, you can “run through” all stages of backup without any problems. By the way, this is what we will do today.
A little theoretical background
The principle of operation of the utility is actually quite simple. It creates a hidden partition on the disk, inaccessible to the OS, into which a complete copy of the system disk is saved. The volume of recorded data is quite significant, so the procedure, to put it mildly, requires some time. After this, the utility modifies the Windows boot loader and offers to initiate system recovery. If there is no need for this (that is, the user did not press a specific hot button), the OS starts in normal mode.
Attention! We traditionally use only the latest versions of the software, so it is possible that in earlier builds the interface and arrangement of control elements will differ from what we present below. Program version used:ATIH v18.0 build 6525 .
Initial creation of a hidden partition (security zone)
Attention! After this, you will be prompted to restart your computer. The system will make the necessary changes to the system partition and after another restart, the initial placement of the “security zone” can be considered complete.
Creating a Backup
Attention! The process of creating a backup copy is very, very leisurely, and depending on the amount of data, the speed of the hard drive and the load on the computer, it can take quite a long time.
Restoring a partition from a backup
- Select “Backup” in the main program window.
- In the second column, mark the desired archive, and in the menu of the main window of the section (lower right corner of the program screen) click the “Recover disks” block.
- Check the box next to the hard drive partition to which the backup will be deployed, make sure everything is done correctly and click “Restore now”.
Attention! This procedure will completely destroy the data of the entire system partition, so be as careful as possible. It will become impossible to restore deleted information after the operation has begun!
Start restoring from a backup
Activating Startup Recovery
- Left-click on the “Tools” item in the vertical toolbar of the main Acronis True Image Home window, select the “More tools” section in the right window and then the “Activate startup recovery” line.
- Click "Activate" and wait until the operation is completed.
Creating a boot disk
This may be required if it is impossible to start a regular recovery through the security zone. This sometimes happens when the main Windows bootloader is damaged or there is a critical system or hardware failure. In this case, an external disk (USB or DVD) will help to revive the system, on which the portable version of Acronis will be pre-recorded.
A few important notes
- Acronis is far from the only utility designed to help with system partition backup. Paragon Hard Disk Manager (PHDM) has many more features, but its interface is in English, and to confidently use this program you need to have the appropriate qualifications.
- Review the changes proposed by Acronis very carefully: in most cases, it is impossible to roll them back once the “Proceed” button has already been pressed.
