The software lets you quickly install your new disc drive with wizards that guide you through the processes of creating and formatting partitions on your disc drive, transferring data, and backing up your data. There are other backup products that do offer freeware vesions though. As far as I know, there is no actual 'freeware' version of Acronis. Here are links to some of the other OEM versions, but still think you need a key to activate them (one that comes with the purchased hardware). backup or restore files, folders, or an entire disk from an image manage backup/restore tasks remotely restore the system to dissimilar hardware and much more.product components acronis backup server:ensure optimal usage of storage resources by allowing it administrators to establish backup policies. In most cases, you can find those version on the OEM pages openly, but they are configured so that if you don't have one of their drives installed and using it as the drive to restore to, it won't let you use the product. There are OEM versions from WD, Seagate and others, but they are limited in functionality, older and not supported directly by Acronis. You'll want to contact the OEM manufacturer and work with them. Acronis True Image allows to create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning providing the most comprehensive data protection.

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