starts) from the operating system (OS) that is installed on your hard drive. Normally when powering your computer, the system “boots” (a.k.a. Making a bootable DVD or CD is not difficult and it ensures you can get your system running, even when it doesn’t want to. I am on an Asus EEE PC 1000HE and it has four partitions: 1)C NTFS (Unlabeled) capacity 72.06 GB(ONLY one selected by default) 12.39 GB used, Pri,ActĢ)D NTFS(Unlabeled) capacity 72.06 GB, 2.059 GB used, Priģ)E FAT32(PE) capacity 4.888 GB 3.369 GB used, Pri HidĤ)F None(Unlabeled) 39.Even if you’ve never had experience with rescue boot media before, don’t worry. Under this stage called “Partitions to back up” I am confused. Next at the top: Disk backup: “Disk and Partition Backup.” I am guessing “My Disks” is the best choice. I don’t see “My Computer” under backup rather, I see “My Disks” or “Files & Folders.” I wonder why it would say this without my backing up again(I did to begin with). This changed the status under “Your System” from “not fully protected” to fully protected. I installed AcronisTI and made a bootable CD(even though I have a CD I purchased with the box) Starting over again, here is what I have: I installed from CD and made a backup to restore from. I wasn’t successful with my restore attempt and I am coming here to figure out what to do. I tried Acronis TrueImage Home 2010 and the interface is a bit different.

You create a bootable rescue media that you would use in the worst case when your machine doesn’t boot. I’ll actually show that as a separateīut, to reiterate, the important take-away here, is before even considering what and how and whether to backup, make sure that

Once completed, you can then, as I said, use a tool like Image Burn to write that to CD. It’s a fairly quick process to actually create the image.Īll it’s really done is created a 65 megabyte file. These are a summary of the options that I’ve selected. I’m giving it a name, Acronis Rescue CD ISO. In this particular case, it’s now asking me where I want to put it and what I want to call it. Once you’ve created the ISO image, you would then burn it to CD using a tool like Image Burn. The default options are pretty much what you want.Īnd, in this particular case, that’s my only option since this machine has no CD burner. In most cases, what you’ll do is run through the wizard fairly quickly. To restore from a backup, but your machine won’t boot. What this wizard does is it creates a bootable CD, or the image of a bootable CD, that you would use in the case where you want Now that you’ve installed Acronis, there’s actually a very important first step that you need to take before even backing upĪnd that is to create a Bootable Rescue Media.

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