Upgrade question
I want to buy Acronis True Image Home 2012 for my pc and I remember having bought Acronis true image 2009, but I don't know where it is anymore.
I used macs for a while and now have a win 7 pc, but I don't know where the old Acronis software is, so I asked Acronis to retrieve my serial number and it sent me an email telling me that I have two different product keys (long numbers which they sent me in the email).
The numbers are different, and I vaguely remember getting another copy for my daughter at college, so I probably did buy two copies a few years ago.
Does this mean that I can purchase the upgrade version now?
Is each product key good for one upgrade pricing?
Will it ask for a previous installation (doesn't exist anymore) or just for the long product key number that Acronis sent me? I don't even remember if I bought it as an online download or as a retail disk, but all that I currently have are the two product keys that Acronis emailed me from my earlier purchase of Acronis 2009.
Thanks for any advice.
Yes,you can buy the lessor priced upgrade. One upgrade for each product key.
You do not need to have TI installed but if it is installed, uninstall it before installing the new.The new install will also ask for the old serial. Have both handy as it may have the serial recorded in the registry and needs to match.
If your register your serials on your Acronis web page, you can retrieve your serials and/or downloads at any time without the help of Acroinis.
I strongly urge you download the ISO file from your personal web page. Burn the iso download to a blank CD so you will have a bootable media CD. Use the CD to make a backup of your system BEFORE installing version 2012. When selection what is to be included within the backup, checkmark the disk option so all partitions will be included in the backup. Label the CD with the version and build number. Retain the CD indefinitely.
I strongly urge you download the ISO file from your personal web page. Burn the iso download to a blank CD so you will have a bootable media CD. Use the CD to make a backup of your system BEFORE installing version 2012. When selection what is to be included within the backup, checkmark the disk option so all partitions will be included in the backup. Label the CD with the version and build number. Retain the CD indefinitely.
Thank you for the info on the upgrade option.
Please excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand this part of your message.
Where is my personal webpage?
How can I fit a backup of my C drive onto a CD (or even a DVD) since it must have about 300GB on it?
Just to be clear about my intentions, I don't have much important data on the computer, so incremental or periodic backups are not very important to me.
What I want to have is a clone of my system as it is when set up correctly in case my hard drive breaks.
When I had a mac, there was a utility called superduper that would make a bootable clone of the system drive to another drive, then you could just clone it back to a new hard drive and everything would be the same. I could also choose the clone to start up in instead of the system drive.
Thanks for your advice.
Luis,
In ATI terminology, you need to do a disk and partition backup (an image) of your disk that will be stored in a TIB file. Make sure you include all the partitions of the disk where the OS is, and make sure the active partition is in the backup. In some corner cases, it is possible to have the active partition not on the OS disk.
You also need a bootable Acronis recovery CD to boot your computer on and make the recovery: hence Grover's mention of the option of downloading the bootable recovery CD ISO image that is available from the download area of your ACronis.com account after you have registered your serial number.
http://kb.acronis.com/content/4834
This link should help and look at the links also inside the main link.