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Quick query about TIH2010 trial

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I have a few questions about True Image Home 2010:

I have downloaded the trial but before I consider installing it I need to know if it's necessary to uninstall my current TIH9 before I do...

If I DO decide to take the leap:
1) How long will the trial function?
2) Will my current recovery disk work with it?
3) Any foreseeable problems going back to ATI 2009 If I decide to stick with that?
4) Does ATI 2009 work in Windows 7? (or at least as well as the other "supported/sort of" versions...)

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It is always a debatable issue whether to uninstall a previous version when it comes to TI. In any case if TI9 still works for you why not make a Backup of your system so you always Restore it in case you do not like 2010.
I believe the Trial is now only good for 15 days, but the website should say.
The Rescue CD of 2009 will work with Win 7.
When you said your current TIH9 did you mean 2009 or ver. 9? Your #4 question puts doubt into the issue.

2009, not version 9...I'll have to watch their unfortunate name/version sequencing and remember to always spell it out

I have been backing up my system periodically but the possible risks in trying to restore an entire disk just to "uninstall" a trial version of a program seems a bit much

Oh, and I have found out in searching the forums that Acronis True Image 2009 does not work in windows 7 at all.
As a matter of fact reading the forums it seems there's nothing to be had but major trouble -- fixable only with registry tweaking and other complex and convoluted work-arounds -- attempting to install TIH in Windows 7 at all.

Actually the last build of 2009 does work in W7, even mounting, (which in the previous build of 2009 didn't).

I'm not sure though if 2009 will work properly with the newer Microsoft disk sector offsets, though if you have made a complete disk image not just a partition that shouldn't be a problem.

TI 2010 of course has some extra's which may or may not be useful to you. Your main problem is more likely to be the rescue CD as the 2010 version should be more up to date.

Philip Shantz wrote:
2009, not version 9...I'll have to watch their unfortunate name/version sequencing and remember to always spell it out

I have been backing up my system periodically but the possible risks in trying to restore an entire disk just to "uninstall" a trial version of a program seems a bit much

Oh, and I have found out in searching the forums that Acronis True Image 2009 does not work in windows 7 at all.
As a matter of fact reading the forums it seems there's nothing to be had but major trouble -- fixable only with registry tweaking and other complex and convoluted work-arounds -- attempting to install TIH in Windows 7 at all.

You're walking on thin ice if you've never done a restore. At the very least you should boot with the Rescue CD and use it to validate one or more of those Images. The best, of course, is to restore to a spare hard drive.

I've done whole disk restores many times and was delighted at how flawlessly it worked -- but that was only in XP Professional.
I have never done a restore in Vista, though my default backups are validated as they're done (except for the incrementals...) Acronis has definitely saved my bacon more than a few times.
I have restored files and folders from Vista backups but never the whole disk (all my backups are entire disks)

Which brings me to a question: could I do a "test restore" of an entire disk to a large partition on another disk? I'm under the impression that I can not, but I'd like to be told I'm wrong -- then I could try a test restore to my second 500GB disk -- it's almost empty but it has two partitions...

Philip,

You can do a test restore to another empty disk.

What you need to ensure is:

1. That new drive is going to be booting the same machine.

2. That your normal OS drive is disconnected/removed whilst this 'test' drive is being used.

2a. That your external drive or the drive you image to is not attached on reboot with the 'test' drive in place.

3. That if you have your TI tasks set to run if missed, that you disable that feature in the archive you intend to restore, just in case on boot TI realises it has 'missed' a task and try to image a drive that isn't required.