[Gee Wally]

If I have an image backup of my XP system backup of my PC on an USB external HD that is not currently connected to my PC and I accidentally deleted the OS off my Internal HD, What do I have to do to get my back to the way it was?

Can someone give me a step by step instructions on what I need to do, please?
I would greatly appreciate any positive help.

thanks

[Alvin.C]

Hello,

Did you purchase the boxed retail version of Acronis True Image 11? If so it should have come with a bootable CD for restoring image files.

Note: The manual will tell you how to restore image files:
http://s4u.download.acronis.com/pdf/...ge11_ug.en.pdf

If your boxed retail version didn't come with a bootable CD, or if you purchased and downloaded the product online, you would have had to create a bootable media using the Bootable Rescue Media Builder in order to be able to restore image files outside of the operating system (that is, restoring without an OS installed / without booting into Windows).

Alternatively, you may have enabled the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager which allows you boot into Acronis True Image without loading the OS. This would have required the creation of the Acronis Secure Zone (which is a secure recovery partition created on the hard drive) using Acronis True Image. If you did this, and assuming that the Acronis Secure Zone partition is still intact on the hard drive, then when you turn your computer on, you should be prompted to press F11 to start the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.

If you weren't provided with a bootable CD, didn't create a bootable rescue media or didn't create an Acronis Secure Zone and enable the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager then your only option is to re-install Windows XP, install Acronis True Image and restore the image using the software when booted into Windows.

[Gee Wally]

Alvin.C, that worked well. Thanks a lot for the post.

[Alvin.C]

No problem.