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Restore with a different operating system

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I have Windows 7 Starter on my laptop. I want to put Windows 8.1. If I make a backup of the Windows 7 Starter using Acronis True Image 2015, will I be able to recover from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 Starter.

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I am not sure exactly what you mean by

will I be able to recover from Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 Starter

Do you want to upgrade your laptop to Windows 8.1?

Imaging software copies all the information necessary to restore your system to a blank disk as is, and it allows you to restore individual files and folders, but with Windows it is impossible to restore only applications and settings installed on one OS version and restore it to another version.

And if I install Windows 7 Starter? And then start restoring I restored the files and settings?

You can restore the files yes, settings can be saved in the registry and that cannot be restored safely separately.