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Hello All...I have a version that I bought maybe 10 years ago, but it's not compatible with Windows 7 or 10...I'm sure the 2017 version is, but here's my question; Once you create an image of a Windows 7 drive, and place it on a Windows 10 computer as a file, can you still "drill down" into that image to access ANY file or folder inside that image?

Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I could do that with my old version, and I need to be sure that's still the case before I upgrade to 2017...thanks!

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Hello All...I have a version that I bought maybe 10 years ago, but it's not compatible with Windows 7 or 10...I'm sure the 2017 version is, but here's my question; Once you create an image of a Windows 7 drive, and place it on a Windows 10 computer as a file, can you still "drill down" into that image to access ANY file or folder inside that image?

Sorry if it's a dumb question, but I could do that with my old version, and I need to be sure that's still the case before I upgrade to 2017...thanks!

Frank, welcome to these user forums.

Simple answer is yes.  With the shell integration of ATIH 2017 (and earlier versions), you can just double-click on any .TIB file in Windows Explorer and this will then allow you to browse through the contents of the image file.

The only caveat to the above statement, is that Windows security may challenge you when accessing folders in the image file due to your using a different user profile on the Windows 10 system to the owner profile on the Windows 7 system.  If you do this on the Windows 7 system then there should be no issue!  This is a Microsoft security restriction, not caused by Acronis.

Thanks Steve! The plan is to install TI on the 7 machine, image the drive, and place that .tib file on the new 10 computer, also installing TI 2017 on it. That will allow the user access to all files from the old 7 machine. If the .tib file lives on an external drive, you think Windows would take issue?... if it's not on the 10 machine with the different profile, that is...

Frank, always best to have copies of your backup .tib files on external drives and not always connected to your computer(s) as that is your protection against any malware attacks etc.

You can explore the .tib file where-ever it is located provided that Windows can see it and can open it.