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Full system recovery, failed drive

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I have Acronis 2012 bootable rescue media(DVD). Can I use it to recover my True Image 2017 backup onto a new HHD after a disk failure? I cannot find my 2017 rescue media.

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Ciccio, please see KB 1689: Backup archive compatibility across different product versions which after the table of products / compatibility, has the following statement:

(!) Acronis does not guarantee forward compatibility. Backups created with a newer build/version of the product may not be supported by older builds/versions. For example, restoring a backup created with Acronis True Image Build 8163 may fail with Acronis True Image Build 8076, or restoring a backup created with Acronis True Image Home 2011 may fail with Acronis True Image Home 2010.

If you have previously registered your ATI 2017 product to an Acronis Account, then you should be able to download a copy of the default Linux based Rescue media as an .ISO file from there and then burn this to optical media or copy to a USB stick using such as Rufus or ISOtoUSB.