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Method, select Incremental. Hit Next for the next four tabs and

your hard drive will be backed up on the specifi ed schedule.

You should also create a separate image that you keep handy

if you do need to roll your machine back to day one status. To do

this, go to the opening menu of True Image, select Backup and

Restore and My Computer, select your C: drive, and click Next.

Select Target archive and put the image in a directory on your

second drive. Name the fi le Day1.tib. Select Schedule and make

sure it is set to Do Not Schedule. The window should say “Run

this task manually.” Click Summary and then Proceed.

You should also now set True Image to make automatic

backups of your data. Aft er you select Backup and Restore,

select the My Data option. This will let you select the type of

data you want to back up and the frequency of the backups.

You can run it daily or every other day since the process

should be much faster once you’ve made the initial backup.

And before you fi nish with Acronis, you should create

a boot disk, which, in the event that your drive or OS goes

kaput, will allow you to boot the machine in order to access

the restore image from your backup drive. Do this by clicking

Start > Programs > Acronis True Image Home > Bootable

Rescue Media Builder. Select Acronis True Image Home, click

Next, and Next again, and select CD-RW. Pop a blank disc in

the optical drive and your boot disc will be created.

Congrats. You’re done and fully prepared for just about any

type of catastrophe.

So the worst case scenario happens: Your

hard drive dies or you try a Windows

“performance” trick and accidently nuke ev-

erything on your drive. Not a problem. Grab

the True Image Home 2009 rescue disc that

you made and drop it into the optical drive.

Boot the machine off of the disc. Select

Acronis True Home 2009 and click Manage

and Restore. Locate the image that you want

to restore from your secondary hard drive.

If you want the last automated image True

Image Home made, select that. If you decide

you want to go back to your day one image,

point it at that directory.

Select Restore Whole Disks and Partitions

and then select the disk you want to restore

from the backup image. Since you had only

one partition on your original drive, you

should be presented with only the C: drive

and the MBR and Track 0. Select both. Now

select the destination drive where you want

the partition to go. If the target drive still has a

partition on it (whether infected or corrupted)

you’ll get a warning message saying so. Just

click OK. Click Next until you get to the Sum-

mary screen and click Proceed. True Image

will proceed with the image restoration and

you should be able to boot directly into the OS

as it was last backed up.

Restoring your image is as easy as popping in the boot CD, selecting the image you

want to restore, and waiting for your system to come back to life.

Make sure that you select the correct disk that you want to restore your image to.

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