13.2. Recovery using vhd files created by Windows
Backup
If you used Windows Backup utility included into Windows Vista (except Home editions) and
Windows 7 operating systems for backing up the system hard drive and later purchased Acronis True
Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition, you can recover your system hard drive from those Windows
Backup utility backups (vhd files) using Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition. So, when you
need to recover your system using a vhd backup file, proceed as follows:
1. Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device (CD, DVD or USB
stick) the first boot device. See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS (p. 146).
2. Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition (Full
version).
3. After Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition starts, click the My Disks link under
Recover on the Welcome screen and the Restore Wizard will start.
4. Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date (if you have not added
descriptions to vhd archives using the Edit Comments feature of Acronis True Image Home 2010
Netbook Edition). When the required vhd backup is not shown, click Browse, choose Windows
Backup Archives (*.vhd) in the "Files of type" field and locate the backup for recovery.
Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen, after you choose it Acronis True Image Home 2010
Netbook Edition may display the following message: "Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition
cannot detect volume 1 of "Backup_Name" archive", where Backup_Name is the name of the chosen
backup. This is because disk letters in the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition may
differ from those in Windows and the path to this backup stored in the metadata information database will
point to the wrong location. In such case also click Browse, choose Windows Backup Archives (*.vhd) in the
"Files of type" field and locate the backup for recovery.
5. At the next step select Recover whole disks and partitions (if it is not selected) and click Next.
6. Select the system partition at the What to recover step. Usually you will not need to recover the
MBR.
7. Then specify the settings of the selected system partition: location, type (primary, active) and
size. When recovering the partition to the original location, you do not need to make any setting
changes.
8. Read the Summary of the recovery operations and then click Proceed.
You can also recover partitions and disks from vhd files while working in Windows. This is preferable
for recovering data partitions and disks.
13.3. Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7
system partition
As already mentioned, users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 can boot from tib
images of Windows 7 system partition, thus testing bootability of the backed up system without
actual recovery. This can be done only when running Acronis True Image Home in Windows.
If you have Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate installed and want to test whether your Windows 7
system partition backup will recover to a bootable operating system, proceed as follows:
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