Acronis True Image Home

i finally bought this program and i am wondering, does anyone know, if after i create my back up discs can i completely format my hard drive then restore from discs.? i can't seem to find anything on their site, help or faq so any help here will be appreciate.

 

No, they are used to boot up your system if it crashes. If you have your harddrive image on a disk you can restore from there.

 

if you store your Image Backup on dvds or cds, you can reformat your HD and then restore the images, but for this you need to create a boot recovery cd, there is such an option in the menu bar.

But if your images stored on the HD, it's recomended to create an Acronis Secure Zone - it's a special hidden partition for storing backups on the computer system itself. For archive security purposes, ordinary applications cannot access it. In the Acronis True Image Home wizards’ windows, the zone is listed along with all partitions available for storing archives.