There you may select the system drive or any partition that you want to back up this includes drives that don't have a drive letter assigned to them if you plan to back up those, you need to customize the backup source to do so but it is good that this is supported.Ī click on 'full partition list' on the backup source selection page displays all partitions, e.g. The application displays all drives and partitions when you select the 'disk and partitions' option. A click on the source of the backup gives you options to switch from 'entire PC' as the backup source to 'disk and partitions' or 'files and folders'. True Image picks up any drive with a drive letter one of the drives on the test computer was an encrypted drive that was not mounted. The active device is listed in one of the panes and True Image adds it automatically as the backup source.Â The entire PC is selected automatically for backup but that may not be required all the time. A toolbar on the side displays the available options, the main panes backup information. The interface of True Image 2020 looks very clean on start. The trial version is feature-limited the Clone Disk feature is not available in the trial version. Note that you are asked to create an account the first time you start the program, even if you use the standard edition. Tip: uncheck the participate in customer experience program to avoid sending Telemetry data to Acronis. Installation went fine next time when I waited patently for something to happen. I clicked again and the whole installer froze as a consequence. While the installation happens in the background, 'install' is still displayed for a while in the installer which is confusing. You click on the 'install' option that is displayed when you execute it. I ran into a bit of trouble with the installer when I ran it the first time. The trial download for Windows has a size of 600 Megabytes quite heavy.

There are also apps for iOS and Android to back up phone data to computers. More about the differences later on in the review.įirst the basics: Acronis True Image is available for all home versions of Microsoft's Windows operating system that Microsoft supports and Apple Mac OS X 10.11 or higher. Advanced and Premium subscription versions are available for $49.99 and $99.99 per year respectively. The standard version (one-time purchase) is available for $49.99. True Image 2020 is available as a one-time purchase or subscription.

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