Operation Manual

1.4 Installing Acronis True Image 2016

Installing Acronis True Image 2016

To install Acronis True Image 2016:

1. Run the setup file. Before starting the setup process, Acronis True Image 2016 will check for a

newer build on the website. If there is one, the newer version will be offered for installation.

2. Read:

 The terms of the license agreement.

 The participation terms of the Acronis Customer Experience Program.

3. If you accept the terms of both documents, click Install.

Acronis True Image 2016 will be installed on your system partition (usually C:).

4. When the installation is complete, click Start application.

5. In the opened window, enter your serial number, and then click Activate.

Recovering from an Acronis True Image 2016 error

If Acronis True Image 2016 ceased running or produced errors, its files might be corrupted. To repair

this problem, you first have to recover the program. To do this, run Acronis True Image 2016 installer

again. It will detect Acronis True Image 2016 on your computer and will ask you if you want to repair

or remove it.

Removing Acronis True Image 2016

Select Start -> Settings -> Control panel -> Add or remove programs -> Acronis True Image 2016 ->

Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen.

If you use Windows 7, select Start -> Control Panel -> Uninstall a program -> Acronis True Image

2016 -> Uninstall. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot your computer

afterwards to complete the task.

If you use Windows 8, click the Settings icon, then select Control Panel -> Uninstall a program ->

Acronis True Image 2016 -> Uninstall.

If you used the Acronis Secure Zone or Acronis Nonstop Backup (p. 33), select in the window that appears what

to do with the zone and Nonstop Backup storages.

Upgrading from old versions of Acronis True Image

If your current version of Acronis True Image is Acronis True Image 2014 or Acronis True Image 2015,

the new version will simply update it; there is no need to remove the old version and reinstall the

software. If your current version is older, we recommend that you remove the current version, first.

Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with

the previous program versions. Therefore if you roll back Acronis True Image 2016 to an older

version, you likely will have to re-create the backups using the older version. We strongly

recommend that you create new bootable media after each product upgrade.

1.5 Activating Acronis True Image 2016

To use Acronis True Image 2016, you need to activate it via the Internet. Without activation the fully

functional product works for 30 days. If you do not activate it during that period, all the program

functions become unavailable except the recovery.