Last update: November 05, 2008
What a standalone version of an Acronis True Image product is and what features it offers
Description
The standalone version of any Acronis True Image product is an exclusive recovery environment for restoring images. Additionally, it allows you to create images, clone hard disk drives, partition new hard disk drives and manage Acronis Secure Zone without having to boot into Windows. It has the same graphical interface as when you run your copy of an Acronis True Image product under Windows.
There are two variants of the standalone version. The full variant is based on the Linux operating system and uses Linux drivers for getting access to all hardware devices. The safe variant is based on the DOS environment and doesn't provide you with an access to the USB, PCMCIA, SCSI, RAID devices and the network. It is recommended that you use the safe variant only if the full one doesn't work.
You can run the standalone version of your copy of an Acronis True Image product from bootable media (a CD-R(W) disc, a DVD+R(W), DVD-R(W) a set of floppy diskettes, a USB flash card or a ZIP-diskette). You can also activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and boot your computer into the standalone version of Acronis True Image by pressing the F11 button when the computer boots up.
Standalone version of Acronis products does not support Wi-Fi network cards.
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Disk letters in the standalone version of Acronis True Image might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image might correspond to the E: drive in Windows. The reason for this is that Linux has its own rules of drive naming (See Chapter 2.1.1 Naming Convention at http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/Partition.pdf). This is absolutely normal and there is no need to worry about the difference in drive letters assignment.
The following standalone versions of Acronis products are based on Linux kernel version 2.4:
The following standalone versions of Acronis products are based on Linux kernel version 2.6:
