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About to purchase Acronis True Image 2016. I note the system requirements are Windows 7 SP1.

I cannot load SP1 despite hundreds of attampts and miles of advice so I live without it. Will ATI operate successfully without SP1

Erland

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As Mooly pointed out, yes it will.  Honestly though, if you can't get SP1 to even load, you have other OS issues that are likely to be causing problems and/or may cause issues with ATIH not working in Windows (offline boot media will work fine regardless though).  SP1 is an old update and provides many security fixes and enhancements and if you can't get it loaded, you're missing out on a bunch of other Windows patches, fixes and security updates too, making your system much more vunlerable and outdated.

 I'd suggest backing up your entire system with the offline recovery media (do a full disk image, not individual partitions). That way you have a backup just in case.  Then I would reinstall Windows 7 from scratch and get it working correctly.  Alternatively, take the free upgrade to Windows 10 - Windows 10 is actually pretty nice.  Once you've upgraded to Windows 10, do a fresh Windows 10 install (you have to upgrade the first time to get Windows 10 licensed to your hardware.  ONce it's licensed, you can do fresh installs of Windows 10 anytime you want) and restore just your data and get a nice base build with all of your files, apps, data and OS customizations the way you like it.  Then take a new base image backup of the system so you can always restore to that point in time in case somethign ever goes wrong.  

Thans both.

Bobbo......I have several laptops all upgraded to W10, but during upgrade, popups told me certtain content had to be removed before the upgrade would load. So I've assumed that W10 will not upgrade on my W7 PC if it doesn't contain SP1 ..................but perhaps I'm wrong ?

If the PC had W7 as originally supplied then you should be able to clean install the latest version W10 directly by simply entering your W7 COA number whichh is usually on a sticker under the laptop/PC.

To get the upgrade (and thats not the preferred option imo as upgrades always seem to carry over problems, then yes, I think you need to have SP1 and perhaps even more such that the PC reaches 'qualifying spec')

http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/1950-windows-10-clean-install.html

Both W7 (pro version only I think) and W10 (all versions) have an inbuilt disc image utility that can make full system images without needing any 3rd party software.