User's Manual

1. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition creates scheduled tasks using the signature of

the source hard disk. If you recover the same disk signature, you don't need to re-create or edit

the tasks created previously.

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

3. If you use Windows Restore Points, they will be lost when the disk signature is not recovered.

4. In addition, recovering disk signature allows to recover VSS snapshots used by Windows Vista's

"Previous Versions" feature.

If the box is unselected, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition generates a new disk

signature for the recovered drive. This may be needed when you use an image backup not for

disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows Vista hard drive to another one. Trying to boot

Windows after cloning with both drives connected will result in a problem. During Windows booting,

its loader checks the disk signatures of all the connected drives, and if it finds two identical disk

signatures, the loader changes the signature of the second disk, which would be the clone disk. Once

this happens, the clone disk would not be able to boot up independently of the original disk, because

the MountedDevices fields in the clone's registry reference the disk signature of the original disk,

which will not be available if the original disk is disconnected.

10.1.5. Selecting a target disk/partition

1. Select a target disk or partition where you want to recover the selected image. You can recover

data to its initial location, to another disk/partition or to an unallocated space. The target

partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data.

All the data stored on the target partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and watch for

non-backed-up data that you might need.

2. When recovering an entire disk, the program will analyze the target disk structure to see whether

the disk is free.

If there are partitions on the target disk, you will be prompted by the confirmation window stating

that the destination disk contains partitions, perhaps with useful data.