Is Acronis True Image 2009 going to work with Windows 7 64 bit?
I've heard in other forums that it is not going to work and the new ATI 2010 is going to have to be used (when it comes out). Is this true?

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I tried to pin them down on what they meant by current, but they didn't answer. TI 2009 still needs more updating/fixing, especially since it has known problems with Vista SP2. I doubt the changes would be that much different to support Windows 7.
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TI 2009 works fine with Windows 7 RTM (and earlier). I'm backing up nightly.
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I have a TechNet subscription, so I have the final build of Window 7 64 bit. I have 4 HDs in my machine - Professional on C, Ultimate on D, and Home Premium of E. I have Acronis Home 2009 installed and working flawlessly on the 3 drives. I have done backups and restores many times without issues.
I do manual backups and manual restores, nothing fancy.
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Hello Mike89,
Thank you for your interest in [[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/ | Acronis Products]]
At the moment, the following Acronis products can be installed on Windows 7:
• Acronis True Image Home 2010 Beta
• Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Family
However, the correct operation is not guaranteed since Windows 7 is still in the development stage. We are planning to release updates for our current products to fully support Microsoft Windows 7 as it becomes available.
Check the following [[http://kb.acronis.com/content/2870/ | KB article]]
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Steve Fuller wrote:TI 2009 works fine with Windows 7 RTM (and earlier). I'm backing up nightly.
Steve, have you attempted a restore of the entire HD? If you have a second HD try a total restore as if you lost your HD. If that works then we're home free otherwise we're lost.
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John Terdik wrote:
Steve Fuller wrote:TI 2009 works fine with Windows 7 RTM (and earlier). I'm backing up nightly.Steve, have you attempted a restore of the entire HD? If you have a second HD try a total restore as if you lost your HD. If that works then we're home free otherwise we're lost.
I have (several times).....works fine.
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i have a problem with this configuration.
It fails(A LOT OF TIMES) to make a backup to a network disk.Keeps throwing out I/O errors.
And no it's not the disks fault...i tried 2 different locations both have raid mirror configurations(brand new disks) and it just keeps failing.
So i'm guess it just can't use network storage correctly...rendering this product useless on windows 7.
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Steve Fuller wrote:... Steve, have you attempted a restore of the entire HD?
Can't attest to the "entire hard HD" part, but as to restoring an entire Windows 7 OS partition, I know of situations in which that was done, both from inside Windows 7, and from the Acronis CD, using ATI Home 2009 build 9796, without any problems at all.
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I'm posting here because this seems to be the closest thread to my subject: Restoration of Vista Ultimate SP2 32-bit to Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
quoted from microsoft support e-mail:
I understand that we have an Acronis True Image backup of our C:drive. Our Windows Vista Support Team deals mainly with issues related to the Windows Vista Operating System. I am sorry that I am not familiar with the Acronis products. I am not sure if we can restore everything not already installed by Vista with 64-bit. I suggest that you contact their support to check the factor as they would be better qualified to assist you.
For your convenience, I have included the contact information of below:
http://www.acronis.com/company/contacts.html
Please Note: Microsoft provides third-party contact information to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.
If you have done a correct backup and can restore everything after checking with Acronis, we can do a clean install of 64-bit Vista safely. However, if you are not sure if the user folder will lose, you can copy the user folder onto the non-primary partition, such as D: drive.
Will I be able to restore my files, leaving out software I know to be incompatible with 64 bit?
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andrew wrote:Will I be able to restore my files, leaving out software I know to be incompatible with 64 bit?
No, is the short answer. If you've made a complete disk image then that is what will be restored. In theory you could either mount or explore the image and then just select the files you know will work on 64 bit, but then your Vista registry will be up the spout.
The only thing I can think of (apart from not installing those programs in the first place) would be to exclude their folders and contents when making an image.
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Acronis has never added features or OS support to "prior" versions before -- heck they don't even fix the bugs much less add support for newly released operating systems once a new ATI version comes out -- so don't expect W7 support unless you buy the next new version, which should be coming out within a month or so of W7s scheduled release.
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Sorry-haven't been in the forum for awhile. I have done a full restore using Bart PE with the plugin, and all partial restore even using explorer to browse the tib.
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Scott Hieber wrote:Acronis has never added features or OS support to "prior" versions before -- heck they don't even fix the bugs much less add support for newly released operating systems once a new ATI version comes out -- so don't expect W7 support unless you buy the next new version, which should be coming out within a month or so of W7s scheduled release.
Based on my experience since TI9 that would be my opinion as well.
I do recall one previous version (the one they introduced direct writing to DVDs) where there was such a huge out-pouring of criticism about remaining serious bugs that they did relase a subsequent bug-fix build after the next version was released.
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Hey, if Dylan can come out with an album of Christmas standards, then I guess Acronis might come out with bug fixes for a version that is no longer the latest. Your noted one exception for ATI 9 is indeed the only exception that comes to mind and that was a long time ago, before the current regime took control of Acronis.
The problem with ATI is that, fixed or not, Acronis replaces the current version with a new version every year, even if they have to make up features or badly impement "new" features to be able to sell the "new" version as something new. Newgrades aren't necxessarily upgrades; ATI 11 and 12/2009 are probably paradigms of that.
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Dmitry wrote:...We are planning to release updates for our current products to fully support Microsoft Windows 7 as it becomes available.
I sure hope so! I just bought ATI2009 last week!
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