Unable to open/mount True Image Home .TIB files in Advanced Workstation Backup and Recovery 11
Hi all,
We have made a significant number of backups using Acronis True Image Home 2010 and True Image Home 2011 and have now switched to Backup and Recovery 11 Advanced Workstation for use on our new dedicated workstation machine, but are unable to open or mount the old .TIB files created by ATIH2010 and ATIH2011.
How can we mount/open these files with B&R11AW? ATIH2011 can open and mound B&R10, B&R11 .TIBs so what gives?
Also having an issue restoring from backups taken of drives temporarily attached to our workstation machine to new drives attached to the same machine. This issue appears to occur when both the old and new drives are attached and also when the new drives are attached only (along with the OS/Workstation drive from which B&R is being run).
Am I missing something or am I using the wrong version of this software for the task at hand?

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Hi Colin,
Thanks for that. Converting the TIBs is going to take a very long time, but if it must be done so be it.
Typically our backups of existing (failing) disks are done in Windows, to a secondary partition on the Windows physical drive. The failing/existing disks are attached, an image is created of them, and saved to our temporary storage partition, then this image is restored back to a new drive.
Currently we can get as far as making an image, but attempting to restore to a new disk fails - we cannot even select the new disk to restore to in ABR11.5, although it can be seen. We have tried with a brand new (uninitialised) and a brand new (initialised) disk to no avail. The only options ABR11.5 is giving us are to restore the image of the current Workstation OS drive (obviously not what we want to do) or restore it back to the old (failing) disk.
We do not get as far as booting the machine being repaired up, as the image cannot be restored to a new drive to do this.
Using the recovery CD we do not even have the choice of cloning?! TIH2011 recovery CD does have this function, however. Typically we prefer to keep a backup of the faulty drive in question for up to a month (with the client's permission) in case we need to restore it again.
Process used for creating images in ABR11.5 is New Backup > Select faulty disk > select destination folder to store .TIB (our temporary storage partition located on the internal drive of the workstation machine, which also has a Windows partition and ABR software) > Restore backup to new drive.
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