Recovering your system from Acronis Cloud

Depending on your Internet connection speed, disk recovery from Acronis Cloud may take a long time.

Before you start, we recommend that you complete the preparations described in Preparing for recovery. If you recover your system to a new disk, you do not need to format the new disk, as this will be done in the process of recovery.

Before starting this procedure, please make sure that your computer is connected to the Internet by an Ethernet cable or over Wi-Fi.

To recover a system disk from Acronis Cloud:

  1. Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your Acronis bootable media (CD, DVD or USB stick) the first boot device. See Arranging boot order in BIOS.
  2. Boot from the bootable media and select Acronis True Image.
  3. On the Home screen, select My disks below Recover.

  4. To add the online backup of the system disk or system partition to the list of available backups, click Browse.
  5. In the directory tree of the opened window, select Acronis Cloud and enter credentials of your Acronis account.

  6. Select the backup you want to use for recovery, and click OK.
  7. On the Archive selection step, select the online backup and click Next.

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  8. On the Recovery method step, select Recover whole disks and partitions.
  9. On the What to recover step, select the system partition (usually C) and the System Reserved partition (if any). You can also recognize these partitions by the Pri, Act flags.

  10. On the "Settings of partition C" (or the letter of the system partition, if it is different) step, change the settings, if necessary. For example, you need to change settings when recovering to the new hard disk of a different capacity.
  11. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the partition, the sizes in the Deleting partition and Recovering partition items must match. Click Proceed.
  12. When recovery is complete, exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image 2021, remove the bootable media. Boot from the recovered system partition. After you check that you have recovered Windows to the state you need, restore the original boot order.