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 Some installed applications use a disk signature for licensing and other purposes.

We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when:

 You use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows hard drive to

another one.

In this case, Acronis True Image Home 2012 generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard

drive, even if you recover to the same drive.

Disk recovery options - click to set up additional parameters for the disk recovery process.

Use Acronis Universal Restore - click to use Acronis Universal Restore technology during recovery.

Acronis Universal Restore (provided by separately purchased Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus

Pack) will help you create a bootable system clone on different hardware (for more information see

Acronis Universal Restore (p. 97)).

Choose this option when recovering your system disk to a computer with a processor, motherboard

or mass storage device that is different from the one in place when the system was originally backed

up.

4.3 Recovering partitions protected with Acronis

Nonstop Backup

You can recover partitions protected by Acronis Nonstop Backup as follows. Let's first recover a data

partition in Windows.

1. Start Acronis True Image Home 2012.

2. Click Explore and recover in the Nonstop Backup box on the Backup and recovery tab.

3. Select the backup version you want to recover on the time line at the Disks and partitions tab.

4. Select the partition to recover and click Recover.

5. The further operations are similar to those performed when recovering data partitions or disks

from a "classic" image backup. For further information see Recovering partitions and disks (p.

79).

Depending on the circumstances, recovery of the system partition may be performed both in

Windows and after booting from your rescue media (e.g. when Windows does not start). Recovery in

Windows is similar to recovery of a data partition. However, you will need to reboot. Usually, it is

safer to recover the system partition using the rescue media.

When using the rescue media, the recovery procedure is very similar to the procedure used for

recovering the system partition from a "classic" disk or partition backup. The only difference is the

Recovery point step that allows you to select the point in time from which you can recover the

system partition. Recovery points correspond to backup versions shown on the time line of Backup

explorer.

4.4 How to recover more than one partition at once

Here we describe recovery of two partitions. If an image of a hard disk has more than two partitions,

the procedure is similar.