Preparing for recovery

We recommend that you perform the following actions before recovery:

• Scan the computer for viruses if you suspect that the crash occurred due to a virus or malware attack.
• Boot from the rescue media and validate the backup you want to use for recovery. This is necessary because, when a backup is validated in the recovery environment, the program sometimes declares it corrupted though it has been successfully validated in Windows. This may be due to the fact that Acronis True Image 2013 uses different device drivers in Windows and in the recovery environment. If Acronis True Image 2013 considers the backup corrupted, it will not proceed with recovery.

  Under bootable media, there are two ways to validate a backup:

  • To validate a backup manually, on the Recovery tab, right-click a backup and select Validate Archive.
  • To validate a backup automatically before recovery, on the Options step of the Recovery Wizard, select the Validate backup archive before recovery check box.