Win 7 and XP
Acronis® True Image Home® version 11.0 (build 8,101)registered
2 questions please.
1 Will the above version work in Win7
2 I am buying a new computer is there an easy way to transfer ALL MY FILES (not just Acronis) from my old to my new computer.
Please forgive my lack of knowledge
regards
Bob

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Alexander has given you the info on on compatibility and restoring an image to a new computer. If you do write an old image to the new computer that has W7 on it, it will be overwritten and you will end up with the OS of your old machine on it and as he pointed out, not in a runnable condition without a lot of fiddling around which is primarily due to wrong drivers for the new hardware.
If your issue is with data files such as photos, videos, documents, spreadsheets, etc then they can be copied several ways just using Windows Explorer. You can network the 2 machines, you can copy the data files to a USB drive, or you can burn them to CD/DVD. In the case of the external USB drive and optical media, you just copy the files from the device to the new machine. I think MS provides a mechanism for transferring files and settings to a new version of Windows but I've never used it.
You cannot copy application programs such as MS-Office or any other program that uses a Windows installation program to make registry entries etc and this is most application programs. There are some utilities you can buy that claim to do this but I've never used one and likely never will.
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Thank you both for your help sorry I put request in the wrong place.
Bob
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I hope I'm in the right place (new to this). I had TI 2009 installed on my old desktop which had the Win7 32 bit and I had the entire computer backed up to an external hard drive (with incremental backups weekly). My desktop died and I had to purchase a new one. The new machine came with Win7 64 bit installed. I tried to restore my backup to the new computer and the process abruptly stopped. I surmised it was because of the difference in the bits of the operating systems. Correct? Is there any way to recover any of the backup to the new machine? Pardon my ignorance.
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I hope I'm in the right place (new to this). I had TI 2009 installed on my old desktop which had the Win7 32 bit and I had the entire computer backed up to an external hard drive (with incremental backups weekly). My desktop died and I had to purchase a new one. The new machine came with Win7 64 bit installed. I tried to restore my backup to the new computer and the process abruptly stopped. I surmised it was because of the difference in the bits of the operating systems. Correct? Is there any way to recover any of the backup to the new machine? Pardon my ignorance.
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John,
1. Your surmise is "probably" correct. But, most likely, you can right click on the *.tib file and choose the explore option which will enable you to search for personal files, downloads, etc which are not tied specifically to your system. Then you can drag and drop or copy/paste these onto your 64 machine.
2. Consider upgrading to the 2010 TrueImageHome which has better Win 7 support.
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