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spare drive, please, at least validate the image in the recovery environment. A backup that can be

read during validation in Windows, may not always be readable under Linux environment.

When you use the Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition rescue media, the product creates disk drive

letters that might differ from the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: drive identified in the

standalone Acronis True Image Home might correspond to the E: drive in Windows. To be on the safe side, it is

advisable to assign unique names to all partitions on your hard drives. This will make finding the disk containing

your backups easier.

2) It may also be useful to complete all the steps in the Recovery Wizard right up to the Summary

screen, but not click the Proceed button. This will allow you to simulate the recovery process and to

make sure that Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition recognizes both the drive containing

your backups and the target drive. After completing all the Recovery Wizard's steps click Cancel on

the Summary screen. You may repeat this until you feel sure of your settings and choices.

3) Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 now have a way of testing whether

they will be able to boot from the recovered system partition. Acronis True Image Home 2010

Netbook Edition allows booting from a tib file containing a system partition image. So if you are able

to boot from such backup, you almost certainly will be able to boot after an actual recovery from that

backup.

4.1.2. Additional recommendations

1) Many IT professionals recommend that you have at least two copies of your system backup (three

are even better). To be on the safe side, it is further recommended to keep one copy of a backup in a

different location from the other (preferably on other premises – for example, at work or at a friend's

home, if you use the backed up computer at home). One more argument in favor of several backups:

when starting recovery, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition deletes the target partition

(or disk), so when you have just a single backup, the moment the system partition is deleted on the

computer being recovered you are at great risk - the only thing you have is the image being recovered

and if it is corrupted you are in big trouble.

2) It is better to format the hard drive used for storing your backups to the NTFS file system rather

than FAT32. This is due to the 4GB file size limit on FAT32 disks. So if your backup has a size of about

100GB, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition will split it into 25 files. When there are

several such full backups on the hard disk, the number of files will multiply accordingly. This may be

inconvenient if, for example, you would like to move the backup to another location using Windows

Explorer.

3) If you have only one computer at home, it is advisable to print some information that may be

helpful in recovering from a disaster, because you may not be able to use the Internet. Keep the

printed material in a safe place along with the rescue CD/DVD or another rescue media.

4.2. Testing bootable rescue media

To maximize the chances of your computer's recovery if need arises, you must test that your

computer can boot from the rescue media. In addition, you must make sure that the recovery media

contains all drivers required for operation of your mass storage devices and network adapter.

1) If you purchased a boxed version of the product that has a bootable CD, please, make sure that

your computer can boot from this CD. Though Acronis try to place drivers for the latest hardware on

the bootable CD, an almost infinite variety of hardware configurations exist, so we cannot give you a

one hundred percent guarantee of being able to boot from the rescue CD.