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1st time user needs help configuring True Image Home 2011 & Plus Pack 2011 in Windows 7 x64- soon mobo/r.a.m. upgrade planned

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Need help configuring Acronis True Image Home 2011 & Plus Package. I currently have 2 W.D. Caviar Black 1.0 tb. hard drives. 1st drive has Windows 7 Professional S.P. 1 x64 , Programs & 8.0 gb. Page Fileon it. 2nd drive has Contacts, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Recorded TV, Saved Games, Searches, Videos & 8.0 gb. Page File. My current mobo is a ECS A790GXM-A AM2+, 8.0 gbs. Corsair XMS2 1066 r.a.m., XFX Radeon HD5770 video card, Hauppage WinTV HVR-1850 tv tuner, Corsair TX750W p.s.u., Zalman CNPS 9900ALED heat-sink and a AMD Phenom 2 965 BE 125w T.D.P. c.p.u. I'm planning on upgrading to a MSI 890FX mobo & 16 gbs. of d.d.r. 3 r.a.m. soon. I need to know how to configure True Image w/o using non-stop backup enabled. I also, need to know how to configure T.I.H. 2011 in general and how to configure the recovery disk I make for when the mobo and r.a.m. get upgraded. Thanks everyone for any help. P.S. I also use a Xbox 360 S 250 gb. as an extender in Windows Media Center and also for using PlayOn which is installed in Windows 7 and streams Hulu, YouTube, Pdcasts and various internet tv stations to the Xbox and my hdtv.

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Hi Keith,

You should take the time to read this
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426
and this
http://kb.acronis.com/content/13414#

It might seem like a steep learning curve, but I can guarantee this will be time well spent, as this program has a few idiosynchrasies.

To answer your question:
- the most important thing you need is a backup of the "system" disk (the one that holds your operating system and applications). We will talk about content in a second.
For this "system" backup, you need to do 2 things:
a) do an all-partitions disk and partition backup to an external hard disk. You don't mention you have an external HD. I recommend you get one. USB 2.0 is fine. If you don't want to purchase an external disk, you can create a partition backup on your content disk.
b) create/use your recovery CD to make sure you simulate a system disk restore. Boot your computer on the CD and go through a restore wizard, get familiar with the process, just don't proceed at the last step.

- next, you need a backup of your content. You can include this backup in the first backup, or you can use another disk and partition backup, or a simple file backup. If your have large content that never changes much, you might want to use replication software (Karen's replicator, Syncback, Synctoy) to handle this content, and use Acronis for changing content you want to keep versions of.

Once these backups are done, you can get into learning about Acronis from the articles above.

Then you can start experimenting and tweaking.

There is no ideal configuration for backup. Your constraints, preferences will lead you to settings that work for you.

Create new tasks everytime you tweak your backup scheme type, name, destination and other settings in the Backup Option windows. Feel free to adjust your schedules without creating new tasks.

There is nothing to do in particular to prepare for your hardware update. The Plus Pack can help you move your backup to this new hardware.

You may also want to read this tutorial http://forum.acronis.com/forum/9449 for using a WINPE based recovery disk with universal restore. The major advantage of WINPE is the drivers that are included are windows drivers. The standard Linux based recovery disks sometimes do not have all the drivers needed for particular motherboard/chipset combination.