question about Windows 7 and older versions of ATI
If all I want to do is manual full backups and nothing else would I be able to use ATI 11 on a Windows 7 machine?
I'm thinking if I use the bootable CD, it's OS agnostic, so it wouldn't know what OS was installed, right? If I install it and just use the base imaging kernel, I don't think it cares much about the OS either, but I'm not sure about that. I'm assuming it would install on Win7, wouldn't it?
And since version 11 is able to fix the BCD issues if I move the boot partition or change drives, I think Win7 is similar to Vista in that regard, is there anything new there? As long as I respect the 100MB restore partition (I'm assuming I'll buy a new machine with an OEM installation) as active when I restore things, I'm thinking it should work. Any reason what I've said will not work?
Before you do anything with TI11 make a backup image using the Windows 7 imaging facility to a different drive. Then you have a way back if anything goes wrong.
Boot up the TI11 CD and try to make a whole disk image. If it succeeds you have a good chance of being OK but for some extra security validate the image with the CD Validate command. If the validate works then you are very likely able to restore the image if necessary but the absoute best way of knowing it will work is to do a test restoration. Normally, this would be done to a spare disk in case it goes wrong.
The 100MB partition is for Bitlocker but if it is removed the PC will not boot.
So far recognizing disks has never been a problem, although I sometimes have to try more than once, or alternate between safe mode and full mode. One of my disks is only a week old, so maybe I've just been lucky in that regard.
Agreed running a test restore is absolutely mandatory, either to a spare disk or just go up to the proceed command and then bail.
But I think you've answered my other question, that if these things don't trip me up the process is otherwise achievable using the older software. I think I can download the latest .iso from my account, so its probably a good idea to do that now while I'm thinking about it and see if that version can even read the TI 11 .tib files.
Given my usage model there are free utilities that will do what I need, so upgrading doesn't seem to make sense.
I have three older versions of True Image - these are versions 8, 9, and 10. Each of the versions used with my HP notebooks. Early on I had problems with version 9 booting the ISOLINUX CD. I would get something like a "pci cannot allocate region 7 resource." Acronis support stated that I should try using the "apic=off" switch. Eventually they sent me a link for an ISOLINUX iso file that I down loaded and all was OK. I could create and restore my notebook drive image perfectly. Subsequently I purchased version 10 to use with Vista. Recently I installed Windows 7 on the notebook and get the same "pci cannot allocate region 7 resource" error on loading the ISOLINUX CD using verion 10. However, I can use my old version 9 ISOLINUX CD and it works fine.
I would be like to be able to use my version 10 CD to create backup images like I can with the version 9. The version 10 ISO image on the Support page gives the same error message.
How to I find or get a version 10 ISO file that will work like my version 9 ISO file?
Any suggestions would be apreciated.
Thanks!
A version 10 ISO file can be found on your registration page.
TI 10 is quite a old version and as far as I am aware does not support Windows 7. The only way you will get an up to date iso is to contact Acronis support.
However as you have a working rescue CD, albeit version 9 you may not be able to obtain one.
A version 10 ISO file can be found on your registration page.
You just beat me to it!
The poster states that the version 10 iso file on the update page gives the same error, I believe that Acronis have only recently been updating the iso file and older versions are the same as creating from within the program.