User's Manual

2) If you purchased the program after downloading it, you absolutely must create a bootable rescue

CD (or other rescue media, for example, a USB stick) following the recommendations given in the

User's Guide or program's Help and then make sure this rescue media is bootable on your computer.

You must configure your computer so as to enable booting from the rescue media and make your

rescue media device (CD-ROM/DVD-ROM drive or USB stick) the first boot device. See Arranging boot

sequence in BIOS (p. 146);

In case you have a rescue CD, press a key to start booting from the CD, as soon as you see the prompt

“Press any key to boot from CD”. If you fail to press a key within five seconds, you will need to restart

the computer. When using other rescue media, the procedure will be similar.

3) After the computer boots into the recovery environment, check that it detects all the hard drives

you have in your system, including external ones, if you use them for storing backups. Incidentally,

you must attach the external drive(s) before booting from the rescue media, otherwise the recovery

environment might not detect the drive(s).

4) If you store your backups on the network, you should also check that you can access the network

in the recovery environment. When booted from the rescue media, Acronis True Image Home might

not detect the network. If no computers are visible on the network, but the Computers near me icon

is found under My Computer, ensure that a DHCP server is running on your network. If you don't use

a DHCP server, specify network settings manually in the window available at Tools & Utilities →

Options → Network adapters.

If the Computers near me icon is not available under My Computer, there may be problems either

with your network card or with the card driver shipped with Acronis True Image.

Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue media

When booting from the rescue media the optimal video mode is selected automatically depending on

the specifications of your video card and monitor. However, sometimes the program can select the

wrong video mode, which is unsuitable for your hardware. In such case you can select a suitable

video mode as follows:

1. Start booting from the rescue media. When the boot menu appears, hover the mouse over

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition (Full version) item and press the F11 key.