User's Manual

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11.5 Versions of synchronized files ...............................................................................................132
11.5.1 Reverting to a previous file version ........................................................................................................... 133
11.6 How to recover a deleted file ................................................................................................133
11.7 Deleting a sync .......................................................................................................................134
12 Disk cloning and migration ........................................................................................... 135
12.1 Disk cloning utility ..................................................................................................................135
12.1.1 Clone Disk wizard ........................................................................................................................................ 135
12.1.2 Manual partitioning .................................................................................................................................... 137
12.1.3 Excluding items from cloning ..................................................................................................................... 138
12.2 Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD .....................................................................139
12.2.1 What to do if Acronis True Image 2021 does not recognize your SSD .................................................... 139
12.2.2 Migrating to SSD using the backup and recovery method....................................................................... 140
13 Tools ........................................................................................................................... 142
13.1 Acronis Media Builder............................................................................................................143
13.1.1 Creating Acronis bootable media ............................................................................................................... 144
13.1.2 Acronis bootable media startup parameters ............................................................................................ 145
13.1.3 Adding drivers to an existing .wim image ................................................................................................. 146
13.1.4 Creating an .iso file from a .wim file .......................................................................................................... 147
13.2 Making sure that your bootable media can be used when needed ......................................148
13.2.1 Selecting video mode when booting from the bootable media .............................................................. 152
13.3 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................153
13.4 Try&Decide ............................................................................................................................154
13.4.1 Using Try&Decide ........................................................................................................................................ 156
13.4.2 Try&Decide options and notifications ....................................................................................................... 157
13.4.3 Try&Decide: typical use cases .................................................................................................................... 158
13.5 Acronis Secure Zone ..............................................................................................................159
13.5.1 Creating and managing Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................... 160
13.5.2 Acronis Secure Zone location ..................................................................................................................... 160
13.5.3 Size of Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................................................ 161
13.5.4 Acronis Secure Zone protection ................................................................................................................. 162
13.5.5 Removing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 163
13.6 Adding a new hard disk ..........................................................................................................163
13.6.1 Selecting a hard disk .................................................................................................................................... 164
13.6.2 Selecting initialization method ................................................................................................................... 165
13.6.3 Creating new partitions .............................................................................................................................. 165
13.7 Security and Privacy Tools .....................................................................................................167
13.7.1 Acronis DriveCleanser ................................................................................................................................. 167
13.7.2 System Clean-up .......................................................................................................................................... 171
13.7.3 Hard Disk Wiping methods ......................................................................................................................... 177
13.8 Mounting an image ................................................................................................................178
13.9 Unmounting an image ...........................................................................................................179
13.10 Working with .vhd(x) files ......................................................................................................179
13.10.1 Converting Acronis backup ......................................................................................................................... 179
13.11 Importing and exporting backup settings ..............................................................................180
13.12 Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................181
13.12.1 Creating Acronis Universal Boot media ..................................................................................................... 182
13.12.2 Using Acronis Universal Restore ................................................................................................................ 184