I bought a used laptop, and in the CD drive was a CD from a company called Acronis. What is this software?

Question

Is it an image of an operating system?? Please advise.

Answer 1

Never heard of Acronis, but here is how you check the contents of the CD without damaging your computer:

1. Open the CD tray.
2. Shut the computer off
3. Put the CD in the tray and close it. (You have to do this when the computer is off to prevent it from automatically running)
4. Turn the computer on
5. Go to "My Computer". It will either be in your start menu or on your desktop.
6. Right-click your CD drive and click "Open". Do NOT just double click on the CD drive, or the disc will auto-run its program.
7. You should have a list of all the files and folders contained on the CD. Poke around the files and see if you can figure out what they are.

Answer 2

Acronis is a company that makes different products, mostly system management utilities:

- disk imaging
- backup
- privacy tools

Check the label on the CD for a product name and look it up on the acronis web site.

Answer 3

Acronis is a data backup software used to save important files that can be recovered incase of a hard-drive failure/virus. Looks like the person that had the laptop last was trying to copy those files from one pc to another.

Answer 4

Acronis makes software to do backups and images:
http://www.acronis.com

Answer 5

definite there replace into any "outdoors CD/DVD" contraptions, or u can use a LAN connection and located ur CD/DVD onto yet yet another gadget, that has CD/DVD gadget, or u could make image CD/DVD, then duplicate it onto ur pc, and open it with digital CD application (or CD/DVD Emulator)

Answer 6

That is disk management. Sometimes, it is very useful, such as disk crash