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Help please, i have windows 7 ultimate and i use acronis true image 11 build 8,181 and of all of a sudden when i go do a recovery from the acronis software within windows and it reboots i get unable to restore mbr, it never did that before, but the strange thing is that when i do a recovery via the bootable rescue media ATI 11, it dont give me that mbr error and it recoveres my image just fine..I have uninstalled the software and reinstalled, but the software still gives me the mbr message when i try to do a recovery which ends up failing, therefore having me pop out the bootable cd again..

For me is easier to just use the software, rather than having to insert the cd the whole time i want to do a recovery..

it has a option when choosing -

hp (C)
recovery (D)
MBR and track 0

i always choose them all..

please help, is there a way to fix this ?

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You have ATI v11 (different from ATI 2011). ATI v11 is not supported on Win7. ATI 2011 is.

The first version of ATI supporting Win7 is ATI 2010.

After ATI v11, we had ATI 2009, then ATI 2010, etc.

At any rate, even with recent versions, you would *always* recover disk and partitions from the recovery CD (although it should work in Windows, this is definitely not recommended).

So, if you can recovery your backups with your current ATI V11 recovery CD, don't worry. You would not be better off with a newer version on that dimension.