New Lenovo desktop or work station

I recommend against the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. If activated, it modifies your system drive Master Boot Record (MBR), which can cause problems with multi-boot managers and other low-level disk utilities.

Simply use the bootable ATI Rescue Media for restores. That will not interfere with your factory partition.

BTW:

An OEM factory recovery partition is useful only to restore the PC to its original factory state. Once you begin installing software and using the computer, such a restore is much less useful and much less appealing.

I removed my Dell Recovery partition and thus freed up almost 20 GB of disk space. But, first I used Dell's backup utility to create the Recovery image to a USB flash drive (you could also choose three DVD-R disks), which could be used restore to Dell factory state if I ever sold the PC. I also moved boot files from Recovery partition to the OS partition.

But, with ATI, the Dell Recovery disks aren't even necessary if you use ATI to create a pre-boot backup image. I also did that (belt and suspenders).

Thanks for your reply. Understand not to use the Acronis Start-up and Recovery manager. No issue. I think you were the person who advised me previously. And understand how to boot from the Acronis disk and make an "as new" from the factory image without installing the TI software. But my question was about using the Acronis console after TI software install and OS boot, instead of booting from the Acronis disk for recovery, on a Lenovo computer. So would that be a problem with a Lenovo computer and their F11 feature? Guessing no, and perhaps a stupid question. Otherwise there would be a lot of Lenovo owners complaining about TI software. I have used the boot and recovery from disk method, but sometimes it's more convenient to use the Acronis console to recover a back-up image.

Jacob,
Even after you install TrueImage, any restore of a partition or disk should be performed when booted from the TI REcovery CD. The only recovery you should do from within Windows is to recover a few files or a folder but use the CD to recover C or any other partitons.

Yes, use the TI Recovery CD and make a disk option backup of your new computer and this can be done the very first thing--even before you start Windows for the first time. Once you have such a backup, then the backup can provide you capability of restoring your system to factory fresh.

Disk option backup
http://forum.acronis.com/sites/default/files/forum/2009/12/7027/Disk-op…
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Before you begin to install your programs, etc, take the time to open Windows Disk management console and take a screen capture of the graphical view of your disk. This screenshot will show the position and configuration of each of the partitions. Print the pictre and keep it for safe keeping. This can help to proived details about your disk that you may not remember when the informtion could be needed.

Screen capture of Windows Disk Management console view.

https://forum.acronis.com/system/files/privatemsg/harddisk.jpg

After you open the Windows Disk Management console, but Before you take the screencapture,
From the Top row MENU,
Click View. Click Top. Click Disklist
Size of Windows window should be about 3/4 of the windows width.
Take you picture. Print and set aside for safekeeiping but accessible for review.

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One final thought. Should you ever need to replace your hard drive with a different disk, because it is Lenova,(special disk characteristics) the correct procedure would be to remove the old disk and put the new blank disk in its place (same connectors) and then boot from the CD and restore the backup file from a external or other location. The original source disk does not need nor should be connected during the creation of a replacment disk.

Thanks for taking the time for your detailed reply!!! I do appreciate it. But I am inquisitive as I have a science background (many years ago I had my hands on remaining parts of the ENIAC, the world's first digital computer).
So why does Acronis allow the ability to restore full system back-ups as an option on their console? Unfortunately, that's what I did for recovery, and now all of my remaining back-up images, are images taken after recovery from the console, and not after boot from the CD, as you indicated. I wish they made that clear!!! For example, on my old Norton Ghost 9 software for XP and maybe older OS, the ONLY way to recover was in booting from the CD.

The point I was trying to make was to do the first disk backup via the CD(not necessarily all backups) while your system was pristine or prior to changes. A system is very vunerable via the changes an installation can make and I was trying to get a backup as soon as possible after your purchase and particularly, I was hopig for a backup before TrueImage made its changes. Always do backups before installation of any programs by any vendor.

There are users which do all backups from the CD and never install the program. Other users do all backups from the TI Windows console. The program provides both methods and both can be effective. Most of my backup are from within Windows but my really important backups I do from the CD as I knowWindows will not interfere.

The Recovery is best done from the CD as Windows is not involved and there is less chance of a screwup by the program. It is more direct and no involvement by Windows. No open Window files, etc. It is the same backup which is being restored but the restore via the CD is via the Linux software. A restore via Windows TI starts out from Windows with a little manipulation and ultimately reboots for a restore by Linux. That may not satisfy your science mind. Perhaps others have comments.

This may beof interest.
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/44820

You made a number of very sound points!!! In the future, I'll only recover images by booting from the CD.
Thank you.