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can 2010 iso restore 2011 files

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A friend of mine has Acronis True Image Home 2011. He accidentally deleted his OS. He has a full system backup. He tried restoring it using a boot disk he created. However the disk was defective. I have Acronis True Image Home 2011.
Can my boot disk be used to restore his OS or do you have to have a boot disk created by 2011 to restore 2011?

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You have '2011' instead of '2010' in the message, but let's assume that the header is correct, and you want to restore the image with the older bootable media. You can try or download 2011 .iso file from his account and burn the media using e.g. cdrecord that is a part of TI 2010 installation.

Edit - load his 2011 .iso media.

I don't believe 2010 CD will restore a 2011 image, though a 2011 CD will restore a 2010 image.

Your best bet is to do what Dev-Anon suggests, download the 2010 ISO file from your friends account.