
...and load Acronis True Image. This is very handy to have on a laptop, by the way.
A heads-up if you're running multiple operating systems and are using a third-party boot manager to manage them. If you install Acronis Startup
Manager, there's a good chance you'll have to reactivate your third-party boot manager afterwards. Startup Manager overwrites the MBR with its
own bootstrap code. Acronis recommends moving Linux boot managers to a Linux root partition before activating Startup Manager.
One incredible restore option exclusive to Acronis True Image is Snap Restore. Snap Restore allows you to boot Windows on a crashed system
before the system has been completely restored from an image. You can actually go back to work on your PC shortly after the image restoration
begins. As you work, system restoration from the image continues in the background. So how does it work? According to Acronis, Snap Restore:
1. Finds the sectors in the image, containing system files, and restores these sectors first. Thus, the OS is restored and can be started in a very
short time frame. Having started the OS, the user sees the folder tree with files, though file contents are not recovered yet. Nevertheless, the
user can start working.
2. Writes on the hard disk its own drivers, capable to intercept the system queries to the files. When the user opens files or launches applications,
the drivers receive the system queries and restore the sectors that are necessary for the current operation.
3. At the same time, Acronis True Image Home proceeds with the complete sector-by-sector image restoration in the background. However, the
system requested sectors have the highest priority.
Finally, the image will be fully restored even if the user performs no actions at all. But if you choose to start working as soon as possible after the
system failure, you will gain at least several minutes, considering that restoration of a 10-20 GB image (most common image size) takes about 10
minutes. The larger the image size, the more time you save.
The requirements for using Snap Restore are:
You must have Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Secure Zone installed and active.
The image file used for recovery with Snap Restore must reside in the Secure Zone.
The system disk must be included in the image file.
There are of course, some caveats:
Snap Restore won't work if the image used for recovery doesn't contain the OS. Therefore, you can't use Snap Restore with file archive images
containing individual files and folders — only disk and partition images.
Snap Restore always restores the entire system disk. If you've formatted your drive into several partitions — one for Windows, the other for
programs, and the other for data, for example — all of those partitions must be included in the image file you'll be using with Snap Restore. If
you've backed up the partition with Windows to one image file, and the other partitions to another image file, and run Snap Restore, your
partitions containing your programs won't be restored.
Snap Restore is not supported under Windows 98 and ME.
I ran Snap Restore on an "old" 3.0 GHz Pentium 4 system (Hyper-Threading enabled) with 1 GB of DDR400 RAM, a pair of 7200 RPM Seagate
120MB SATA hard drives, and a Radeon 9800XT AGP video card. After running Snap Restore, I dove right in, launched Firefox and started surfing,
edited a Word document and some photos in Photoshop Elements, with the Halo 3 trailer shown at E3 looping in Windows Media Player. There
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