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Just got Acronis True Image Home 2012 last night. Having recently having had a catastrophic hard drive failure, I thought this would be a good way to prevent having to start from scratch again.

As a newbie, I find the manual baffling - All the different terms leave me scratching my head.

So, I did a complete file backup of my C drive. and after reading some more this morning, I am now doing a disk/partition backup. My hard drive has two partitions - C and D. D is the recovery partition.

I only want to do two things... (1) be able to load a complete image of my hard drive (both partitions) to a new hard drive if needed, and (2) be able to restore individual files as needed.

I am backing up all the data to an external 1TB WD drive.

So, is someone able to tell me what type of backups I should have? I need a short book on Acronis for Dummies.

Dave

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You need a disk and partition backup. Include all the partitions that ATI is showing you that are on your system disk. Check out Grover's excellent guide here: http://forum.acronis.com/forum/28705

You also need to produce a recovery CD and to test it: boot your computer on it, restore a couple of files from the backup you just did.

When it comes to recovery. this link could also help.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/29618