Acronis True Image for XP Pro?
I recently had a hard drive crash. Everything lost. I'm looking for software able to do bare-metal full backup and restore. From what I've read Acronis True Image 2016 was the last that supported my OS, and it had 'limitations', those being 'new features'. So far as I can tell, it is no longer available for download. Before I move on to other software, I wanted to confirm this, and ask a question:
Does Acronis currently have anything to offer a user of Windows XP by way of bare-metal backup, and if so, does it include the 'Acronis Universal Restore'?
Thanks.


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@Chris, did you ever try running Steve's suggested Linux-based Acronis Restore bootable-media?
I am looking into taking a backup of our old XP computers, but of course need to know if the restore works, and whether I should also prepare a bootable media for them right now (before that is obsoleted as well!).
Thanks,
-- Demis
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Demis, welcome to these public User Forums.
Do you have access to any version of Acronis True Image to use with your XP computers?
If not, then an alternative might be to try Clonezilla which has been around for a very long time.
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I own Acronis True Image 2020 (5 seats), and yesterday tried installing on Win XP Pro, but it didn’t appear to install properly.
the installer completed with no errors, but didn’t launch Acronis when it was done.
I tried to launch manually from the .exe and got “missing DLL” errors.
So I thus searched the web for compatibility issues, leading me here.
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Demis, if you have ATI 2020 already installed on another PC, then try creating the Advanced > Linux version of the rescue media and try booting your XP PC from this.
As stated earlier in this topic, ATI 2019 is the last version that still supported install on XP so would suspect that changes in ATI 2020 now introduce requirements that XP can't provide.
You could try installing the oldest build version of 2020 from your Acronis Account download page (my page shows build #21400 from Sept 2019 as the oldest which is 3 levels back) to see if that makes any difference, otherwise you would need an older version and license / serial key.
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