Operation Manual

Recovering from an Acronis True Image Home 2012 error

If Acronis True Image Home 2012 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 Home

2012 installer again. It will detect Acronis True Image Home 2012 on your computer and will ask you

if you want to repair or remove it.

Removing Acronis True Image Home 2012

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

2012 -> Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen.

If you use Windows Vista, select Start -> Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Acronis True

Image Home 2012 -> Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot

your computer afterwards to complete the task.

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

Home 2012 -> Uninstall. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot your

computer afterwards to complete the task.

If you used the Acronis Secure Zone, Acronis Nonstop Backup or Acronis Extended Capacity Manager, select in

the window that appears what to do with the zone, Nonstop Backup storages or extended capacity disks. Then

click Next to proceed with the uninstallation procedure.

Upgrading from old versions of Acronis True Image Home

If you already have Acronis True Image Home installed, the new version will simply update it; there is

no need to remove the old version and reinstall the software.

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 Home 2012 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 Acronis True Image Home upgrade.

1.3 Acronis True Image Home 2012 activation

To use Acronis True Image Home 2012, 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.

You can activate Acronis True Image Home 2012 either on your computer or from another computer,

if your computer is not connected to the Internet.

Activation on a computer connected to the Internet

If your computer is connected to the Internet, you can activate the product either automatically or

from within the program.

To activate the product automatically:

1. Start the installation procedure. See details in Acronis True Image Home 2012 installation (p. 14).

2. At the Serial number step, select the Activate Acronis True Image Home 2012 automatically

check box. In this case Acronis True Image Home 2012 will try to perform activation during the

first start after installation.

To activate the product from the main screen: