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1. Install Acronis True Image Home.
2. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. To do so, click Activate Acronis Startup Recovery
Manager and follow the wizard's instructions.
When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot record (MBR) with its own
boot code. If you have any third-party boot managers installed, you will have to reactivate them after activating
the Startup Recovery Manager. For Linux loaders (e.g. LiLo and GRUB), you might consider installing them to a
Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
If a failure occurs, turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the "Press F11 for Acronis
Startup Recovery Manager" message. This will start a standalone version of Acronis True Image
Home that differs only slightly from the complete version.
Be careful! Drive letters in standalone Acronis True Image Home might sometimes 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.
You won't be able to use the previously activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if the Try&Decide mode is
started.
3.6 Viewing disk and partition information
You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards.
The header may have up to three icons: Columns, Arrange Icons by and Disk properties, the latter
duplicated in the context menu opened by right-clicking objects.
To sort messages by a particular column, click the header (another click will switch the messages to
the opposite order) or the Arrange Icons by button and select the column.
To select which columns to view, right-click the headers line or left-click the Columns button. Then
flag the columns you want to display. When left-clicking the Columns button, you can also change
the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
If you click the Disk properties button, you will see the selected partition or disk properties window.
This window contains two panels. The left panel contains the properties tree and the right describes
the selected property in detail. The disk information includes its physical parameters (connection
type, device type, size, etc.); partition information includes both physical (sectors, location, etc.), and
logical (file system, free space, assigned letter, etc.) parameters.
You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse.
3.7 What is Try&Decide™?
The Acronis True Image Home Try&Decide feature allows you to perform potentially dangerous
operations such as software installation or opening e-mail attachments without putting your PC at
risk. It does this by creating essentially a controlled, secure, temporary workspace that is insulated
from the rest of your computer. If the system crashes or your computer stops responding during
these operations, you should revert the system to the previous state by discarding changes made in
the Try&Decide mode. If operations are successful, you have the choice of applying the changes to
the real system. (For more details see Try&Decide (p. 102))
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