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Is TrueImage worthless?

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After a move my Windows 10 installation wouldn't boot.  I tried recovering the full disk backup three times, but it still wouldn't boot and I got the error that there was no OS on my disk.  I have reinstalled Windows and have reinstalled Acronis True Image and have recovered some files, but I need to find my Thunderbird profile to reinstall the email client, and there are no Appdata folders listed in either of the the full backups.  What the heck is going on?  I used this product "in case" something went wrong hoping it would be a trouble-free restore and there's nothing trouble-free about it.  I've been working for days to restore my files and have sent a help request to Acronis but have gotten no answers.  Why is there no Appdata in my backups?  Why doesn't restore work?  Is there anyone minding this store?  When you buy a product that doesn't do the basic function for which you purchased it, what is that called?

Update: After changing the "view" preferences on Windows Explorer I was able to see the Updata folders in the restore page.  It didn't occur to me that my windows folder settings would be adopted in the restore page, but so it is.  I still haven't heard back from tech support about why my attempts to restore from the full backup didn't work, though.

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Scott, welcome to these User Forums.

Sorry to hear of your problems with getting your computer restored but we would need more information to be able to try to understand what the problem(s) were?

One of the key points that needs to be made is that any recovery using the Acronis bootable Rescue media needs to be done using the same BIOS mode as used by your Windows OS to boot the media.  Most modern computers tend to be UEFI (with or without Secure Boot enabled) and the Rescue Media is fully capable of booting in UEFI mode.  Older computers have Legacy BIOS and booting one of these in UEFI mode would result in converting the drive from MBR to GPT partitioning schema.

Any disk recovery requires a full Disk & Partitions backup image to work with, this must include all hidden/system partitions as well as the OS C: partition.

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image 2017: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media which shows how these different modes look.

If you have a working Windows OS system, run the msinfo32 program which will show you what the BIOS mode is set as (Legacy or UEFI).  If you only have the ATI .tib image files, then look at the contents to see if you have an EFI partition shown to indicate a UEFI system?