Acronis True Image 2009

Backup your entire computer with Acronis True Image 2009

For commercial applications see the Echo Server & Workstation links at the bottom of this page.

If you have purchased Acronis True Image 2009 and have to keep typing or pasting in your registration serial number, please read this workaround.

Acronis True Image Home 2009 gives you complete PC protection against data loss, by allowing you to back up your entire PC, including the OS, logins, passwords and licenses, plus your data, applications, pictures, music, videos, financial documents, email, bookmarks and all personal settings.

Acronis True Image Home 2009 provides the maximum flexibility to ensure you are adequately protected and can recover from unforeseen events such as viruses, unstable software downloads, and hard drive failures.

Backup and Recovery that is EASY to Perform!

Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster.

New Features in Acronis True Image 2009

• One-click™ protection
  Initially, you decide what, where and when to back up. After that, backups occur automatically or with just one click.
• Full text search
  Search for file name and/or content within an archive, using Windows or Google™— desktop search.
• Making reserve copies of your backups
  You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a network drive, or a USB storage device. You have a choice of making a reserve copy as regular (flat) files, a zip compressed file, and a tib file.
• Zip archive format support available
  In addition to Acronis' powerful TIB data compression backup format, one of the most densely compressed backup file types available to consumers, Acronis True Image Home 2009 also supports the popular ZIP® format.
• Consolidation
  You can define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space. Merge an older full backup with several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup; subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup.
• Windows Vista® -style Interface
  The new, sleek interface of this product works on Microsoft® Windows XP and Vista operating systems.
• Improved! Smart Scheduling
  Run backups automatically at preset or elapsed time when user is idle, on user log-in/logout, on system startup/shutdown, and in coordination with other events.
• Buy NEW True Image 2009 from Acronis Now!
• Click Here to purchase Acronis True Image Home 2009 at a 15% discount.

Additional Features

• Exclude Files and Folders
  Back up only the data you want to keep and save disk space.
• Migration tools make upgrades easier
  PC cloning or adding a new disk is simple with Acronis True Image Home 2009's built-in migration tools. No longer must you reinstall the operating system, applications, or re-key user settings when you clone your PC or increase its storage capacity.
• Security, performance and privacy tools
  When you replace a hard drive on your PC, Acronis ensures you don't inadvertently give personal or organizational data to cyber thieves. Acronis Drive Cleanser, a $50 value is included at no charge. It protects sensitive data from view by wiping a disk clean of all data. If you don't need to erase the entire disk, File Shredder safely destroys individual files so they can't be resurrected. A System clean-up utility restores system efficiency.
• Improved! Try&Decide
  Try new software and browse the web without endangering your computer from malware or unknown software. After testing, you can decide whether to keep or discard changes to your system.
• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
  Boot your computer after a failure to start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed.
• Acronis Secure Zone®
  Protect your system by saving an image to a special hidden partition on your hard disk where it can be retrieved after a disaster.

Acronis True Image Home 2009 costs only $49.99 per license (1 per computer), which includes all updates to this version of the program. Upgrades from previous versions are highly discounted, to show customer appreciation!

• Purchase Acronis True Image Home 2009 Here!
• Click Here to purchase Acronis True Image Home 2009 at a 15% discount.
• If you have a previous licensed version you can upgrade here for only $29.99.
• All prices on this page are in US dollars, which can be converted into your local currency during checkout.

How it works

The great thing about full disk imaging is that when you restore a saved image you get absoultely everything that was on that disk at the time the snapshot of it was created. This includes all activations, product keys, serial numbers, updates, user accounts, settings and preferences. These things could take a day or longer to restore manually, whereas Acronis True Image can restore everything at one time, usually in well under an hour.

Not a home user? Need a backup solution for your business or servers?

Acronis also offers commercial backup solutions for businesses and server administrators. The following links exemplify but a few of the Acronis commercial backup solutions.

• Acronis True Image Echo Workstation, each workstation computer on your network is now protected against data loss. After a system crash, Acronis True Image Echo Workstation allows you to perform a full system restore, a bare-metal restore to different hardware or to a virtual machine (with the optional Universal Restore add-on), or just a restore of individual files and folders in minutes.
• Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows — minimize downtime during recovery in case your servers fail.
• Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux — you can quickly backup and restore your Linux servers with "hot imaging."
• Acronis True Image Echo Server was voted the winner in the "Data Recovery Software Category" of the WindowsNetworking.com Readers’ Choice Awards, on October 29, 2008.

Acronis is the world's leading software for backup and disaster recovery! To learn more about the rest of the Acronis backup applications, or to purchase additional licenses, visit the Acronis home page.

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Workaround for serial number not taking in ATI Home 2009

The problem: You paid for Acronis True Image 2009 and received a serial number. You typed or pasted in the serial number and the product was registered and worked, You closed the program, or rebooted and the next time you opened True Image 2009 the title bar says it is not registered and is in a 15 day trial period (which when it ends stops the program from working). No matter how many times you enter the serial number it does not "take."

This problem may be more prominent on 64 bit Windows Vista computers than on 32 bit Vista or XP systems. Here is a temporary workaround to fix this until Acronis releases an official update to resolve this curious issue.

1. First, go to the Acronis Technical Support contact page and file a request for assistance, listing your exact problem and other required information.
2. Log in your account at https://www.acronis.com/my/
3. Open this link. http://www.acronis.com/my/products/exchange/
4. In the Serial number field enter the defective serial number. A new full serial number will be issued and automatically registered to your account;
5. Download Acronis Registration Update utility: http://download.acronis.com/support/SN_exchange.exe
6. Run the downloaded file. Select the product that stopped working properly
7. Submit the new serial number to the corresponding field (8 x 8 characters - use Ctrl+V to paste it in). The registration information about the product will be updated in the system. The product will be recovered to fully functional state.
8. If the new number still does not take, even after rebooting, you should uninstall and reinstall ATI 2009, with the new S/N (remember to use Ctrl+V to paste it in)
9. Another cause of a failure to stay registered might be insufficiant user privileges to write to the Local Machine branch of the Windows Registry, where the Acronis 'serial number' is stored. I have written a lengthly article about Access Denied errors while upgrading and how to resolve them.
10. Acronis also provides a live chat support feature and may be able to resolve you product registration issues via a two-way chat.
11. I also recommend that you check to see if you have the latest build of your registered Acronis products. Occasionally, interim builds are released that fix various bugs that have been reported. These incremental updates are free to registered users.

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