Restoring without a Recovery Disk

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Many years ago, I purchased the full, boxed version of True Image 10. I've executed many full backups onto two external hard drives on my XP PC.

The 8-year-old PC won't boot, so I purchased a new PC with Windows 7. The old hard dfrive from the XP machine is readable and is now connected to the new PC, but I'd like to restore the old XP machine as well.

In short, I want to transfer the Acronis hard drive image from the external drive to the old hard drive, both of which are attached to the new PC.

Multiple problems are preventing me from doing this: (1) I didn't make bootable media using the True Image software (shame on me!); (2) I do not have True Image installed on the new PC; (3) I can't locate the original True Image installation CDs so I don't have the serial number and as a result, I can't get technical support from Acronis. I have the original box with the purchase price ($49.99 at Micro Center), but no other proof of purchase.

If I could transfer the hard drive image from the external drive to the old XP drive, then install the old drive back into the old PC, the old machine would be back in business (all the malware scans and diagnostics I ran on the old drive found nothing wrong).

I would appreciste any advice the community has to offer.

Do, 08/04/2011 - 11:29
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Hello John!

Welcome to our Forum, we're glad to greet you here.  I understand your concern, and will be glad to help you.

I believe I have a solution for you in this case: trial version of Acronis True Image Home 2011, which is available here: 

1. You can install it onto your new machine, it's full functional except cloning feature is not available, and create a bootable media.
2. You will be able to get free support if needed
3. It recognizes the images created with the previous versions of Acronis Software (10th in your case)

In order to retrieve your purchase you can also send the scan of the box to support, they will be able to handle it.

Let me know if this solution doesn't suit you, or you have any questions or need guidance, I will be glad to help.

Thank you.

P.S. You might want to check our web Userguide as well, you may find it useful.

Do, 08/04/2011 - 14:55
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