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After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware, you can create a new bootable rescue

media that will automatically select that video mode.

To do this, start Acronis Media Builder, select the required media components, and type the mode

number with the "0x" prefix (0x338 in our instance) in the command line at the "Bootable media

startup parameters" step, then create the media as usual.

7.4 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery

Here are some recommendations:

1) Even if you start recovery of the active partition in Windows, the program will reboot into the

Linux environment after the recovery process starts. This is because Windows cannot be left running

during the recovery of its own partition. So you will recover your active partition under the recovery

environment in all cases.

If you have a spare hard drive, we strongly recommend you to try a test recovery to this hard drive. It

should be done after booting from the rescue media which uses Linux.

If you do not have a spare drive, please, at least validate the image in the recovery environment. A

backup that can be read during validation in Windows, may not always be readable under Linux

environment.

When you use the True Image 2013 rescue media, it creates disk drive letters that might differ from the way

Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: disk identified in the standalone True Image 2013 might

correspond to the E: disk in Windows. It is advisable to assign unique names (labels) to all partitions on your

hard drives. This will make finding the disk containing your backups easier.

2) Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 can test whether they will be able to

boot from the recovered system partition. True Image 2013 allows booting from a tib file

containing a system partition image. So if you are able to boot from such a backup, you almost

certainly will be able to boot after an actual system recovery from that backup.

When you choose a tib file to boot from, True Image 2013 temporarily converts it to a vhd file. Your

hard disk must have enough free space for storing it. The program will then add a new item to the

Windows boot loader list. When you select the tib file in the boot loader list, your computer will

actually boot from that temporary vhd file. After ensuring that the tib file stores a bootable backup,

you can remove the file from the boot loader list and delete the temporary vhd file. For more

information see Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition (p. 227).

7.5 Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD

In this section

Preparing for migration .......................................................................... 147

What to do if True Image 2013 does not recognize your SSD ............... 147

Checking SSD partition alignment .......................................................... 149

Fixing SSD partition alignment ............................................................... 149

Migrating to an SSD using the backup and recovery method ............... 150

What to do if your SSD does not have enough space for all HDD content151

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