Acronis Acronis True Image Home 2010 TIHPB2ENS User Manual
Product codes
TIHPB2ENS
98
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1. Acronis True Image Home creates scheduled tasks using the signature of the source hard disk. If
you recover the same disk signature, you don't need to re-create or edit the tasks created
previously.
previously.
2. Some installed applications use disk signature for licensing and other purposes.
3. If you use Windows Restore Points, they will be lost when the disk signature is not recovered.
4. In addition, recovering disk signature allows to recover VSS snapshots used by Windows Vista's
"Previous Versions" feature.
If the box is unselected, Acronis True Image Home generates a new disk signature for the recovered
drive. This may be needed when you use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning
your Windows Vista hard drive to another one. Trying to boot Windows after cloning with both drives
connected will result in a problem. During Windows booting, its loader checks the disk signatures of
all the connected drives, and if it finds two identical disk signatures, the loader changes the signature
of the second disk, which would be the clone disk. Once this happens, the clone disk would not be
able to boot up independently of the original disk, because the MountedDevices fields in the clone's
registry reference the disk signature of the original disk, which will not be available if the original disk
is disconnected.
drive. This may be needed when you use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning
your Windows Vista hard drive to another one. Trying to boot Windows after cloning with both drives
connected will result in a problem. During Windows booting, its loader checks the disk signatures of
all the connected drives, and if it finds two identical disk signatures, the loader changes the signature
of the second disk, which would be the clone disk. Once this happens, the clone disk would not be
able to boot up independently of the original disk, because the MountedDevices fields in the clone's
registry reference the disk signature of the original disk, which will not be available if the original disk
is disconnected.
11.1.5. Selecting a target disk/partition
1. Select a target disk or partition where you want to recover the selected image. You can recover
data to its initial location, to another disk/partition or to an unallocated space. The target
partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data.
partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data.
All the data stored on the target partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and watch for
non-backed-up data that you might need.
non-backed-up data that you might need.
2. When recovering an entire disk, the program will analyze the target disk structure to see whether
the disk is free.
If there are partitions on the target disk, you will be prompted by the confirmation window stating
that the destination disk contains partitions, perhaps with useful data.
that the destination disk contains partitions, perhaps with useful data.