A True Review July 25, 2006
by Adam R.
A True Review web site
Acronis True Image Backup Software
RestoreOnce a recovery disk is made, recovery is possible. If a problem occurs, put in the recovery disk and boot the computer Acronis will load from the disk. Excuse the pictures a bit, I had to shoot my monitor to get them since I was in DOS mode. 
Once Acronis True Image has fully loaded, a familiar screen is shown. The recovery disk allows the user to not only restore but backup as well. Actually, most of Acronis' True Image functionality is available from the boot disk. I did not see a mount image. 
For a Restore, click the Recovery link. This brings up a file browser, which is used to find the archive to restore. All my disks were present for the restore, this includes the USB drives, FireWire drive, SATA RAID and SCSI drive. 
Since I passworded the archive when backing up, I had to enter the password to continue. Again, I highly recommend doing this. 
Depending on backup mode, the user must choose the restore mode. Since I did a disk backup, I decided to do a full disk restore. 
After selecting the restore type, the destination drive must be chosen. I restored my C drive. 
When restoring a partition, the partition type must be chosen. For me, the C drive is an active partition so I selected active. 
In the next step the size of the partition can be adjusted. I restored the whole disk using all of the disk size. After selecting the disk size, the next screen prompts to restore another partition. 
After selecting all the partitions to restore, there is another screen that like when backing up, prompts to verify the archive restore. 
Finally, the wizard is done. What a lot of steps, but needed to make sure everything is getting restored right. A status indicator is present. For me the restore took about 3 hours, almost twice as long as the backup. 
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