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17. Exploring archives and mounting images
Acronis True Image Home offers two kinds of archive contents management: mounting for images
and exploring for both images and file-level archives.
and exploring for both images and file-level archives.
Exploring images and file-level archives lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a
hard disk. To explore a backup archive, double-click on the corresponding tib file. You can also right-
click on the file and choose Explore in the shortcut menu.
hard disk. To explore a backup archive, double-click on the corresponding tib file. You can also right-
click on the file and choose Explore in the shortcut menu.
When you copy files from a backup being explored, the copied files lose the "Compressed" and "Encrypted"
attribute. If you need to keep these attributes, it is recommended to recover the backup.
attribute. If you need to keep these attributes, it is recommended to recover the backup.
Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical drives. Such
ability means that:
ability means that:
a new disk with its own letter will appear in the drives list
using Windows Explorer and other file managers, you can view the image contents as if they were
located on a physical disk or partition
located on a physical disk or partition
you will be able to use the virtual disk in the same way as the real one: open, save, copy, move,
create, delete files or folders. If necessary, the image can be mounted in read-only mode.
create, delete files or folders. If necessary, the image can be mounted in read-only mode.
The operations described in this chapter are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems.
Please keep in mind that, though both file archives and disk/partition images have a default ".tib"
extension, only images can be mounted. If you want to view file archive contents, use the Explore
operation. The following is a brief summary of the Explore vs Mount operation:
extension, only images can be mounted. If you want to view file archive contents, use the Explore
operation. The following is a brief summary of the Explore vs Mount operation:
Explore
Mount
Archive type
File-level, disk or partition
image
image
Partition image
Assigning a letter
No
Yes
Archive modification
No
Yes (in R/W mode)
File extraction
Yes
Yes
17.1.
Mounting an image
1. Start the Mount Wizard by selecting Tools & Utilities
Mount Image in the main program
menu or by right-clicking on an image archive on the Data recovery and backup management
screen and selecting Mount Image in the shortcut menu.
screen and selecting Mount Image in the shortcut menu.