User manual ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE DELUXE

[. . . ] Acronis TrueImage Deluxe User's guide Acronis TrueImage Deluxe Copyright © SWsoft, 2002. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Applications: Office 97 (Word, Excel, Outlook); Adobe Photoshop Adobe PageMaker Adobe Acrobat True Image of Primary Partition HDD2. 24. 02. 2002 46 2 : Creating disk/partition images Figure 2. 11. 2. 1. 10 Image creation script In the next window you'll see a partition (disk) image creation script (several images, perhaps). It will contain a list of operations to be performed on partitions (disks) along with their main features. Figure 2. 12. An archive file creation script All operations of a partition (disk) image creation in an archive file are delayed in Acronis TrueImage Deluxe. A partition (disk) image creation script is created first, and then it's executed. Acronis TrueImage Deluxe 47 Script creation includes the following steps, as you've seen before: · Selecting partitions (one or several) and/or disks, · Selecting a device type to create an archive file with a partition and/or disk image on, · Selecting a file or entering an archive file name, · Selecting a data compression level of an archive file, · Selecting an archive type (single or multivolume), · Protecting an archive file with a password, · Commenting a partition and/or disk archive file. Now Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software is ready to perform a procedure of image creation in an archive file. If you click Back, you'll be able to select other partitions and/or disks for image creation, other compression level, etc. You will be able to change any image creation parameters until you click Proceed. Click Proceed to execute a partition and/or disk image creation script. 2. 1. 11 Creating an image You will see the image (several images, perhaps) creation script progress window. Figure 2. 13. Image creation process This window will contain the estimated time of image creation in addition to the main partition (disk) features, which image is being created. 48 2 : Creating disk/partition images 2. 1. 12 Finishing image creation Image creation procedure finishes by way of such a message: Figure 2. 14. Finishing image creation Clicking Exit closes Acronis TrueImage Deluxe. In this certain case a partition with 689 MB of data was compressed to a 267 MB archive file. (We remind that these values are very rough, as files of different types can be compressed very differently. ) 2. 2 2. 2. 1 Creating a disk/partition image on removable media Selecting a partition and an action The initial stages of working with Acronis TrueImage Deluxe software, when creating a partition and/or disk image on removable media, are the same as when creating it on a hard disk. It is started with the welcome window (Figure 2. 1); then you select an action to be performed (Create image of a partition or the whole hard disk drive; Figure 2. 2); then you select partition(s) and/or disk(s) to create images of (Figure 2. 3). Now you should set the switch to Removable disk drive in the Image Archive Location window (Figure 2. 4). 2. 2. 2 Selecting a removable disk drive Having clicked Next, you'll see a list of removable media drives, connected to your PC, in the next window (Figure 2. 15). The most popular devices of Acronis TrueImage Deluxe 49 this type include Iomega Zip, CD-R, CD-RW drives, DVD-R, DVD-RW, magneto-optical drives, and some other. Anyway, all removable media drives, connected to your PC, will be enumerated in this list. In the given case there's only LG CD-RW 8080B (8x/4x/32x) recorder in it, except a usual 3. 5'' floppy drive. Figure 2. 15. Available removable media drives Click a drive you want to create a partition and/or disk image on. 2. 2. 3 The following actions In the next window you'll be asked an archive file name (Figure 2. 16). [. . . ] Operating system is a set of programs that usually includes kernel, drivers, shell, and system programs that are used for centralized hardware management and hiding the details of hardware management from the user and applications. 88 Appendix B : Glossary Operating system installation is a process during which its system folders are created, system files are copied and boot sector are created. An independent area on a hard disk where a file system can be located. A partition can be either primary or logical, depending on its position in the partition structure. Some partition managing software and boot managers allow hiding partitions. [. . . ]