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Issues with Acronis TIH 2012 on Windows XP (SP3)

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Hi All. I manage a small (7 workstations) training room on which I have TIH installed onto both partitions on dual boot PC's (Windows 7 and XP)

All's well on the Windows 7 side but I have intermittant problems with the front end GUI loading up on the XP side. When it fails to load I can sometimes work around the problem by going into Task Manager, stopping the process and re-execting. This does not always work so the only option I have is to boot into Windows 7 and do it from there.
I am still evaluating TIH on the 30 day license but I assume this problem has nothing to do with licensing.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Steve

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Steve,

First have you tried a repair install fo 2012 on the XP systems?

I'm not sure where you stand as far as licensing is concerned with your set up, but it is possible that the activation check that is now in 2012 is causing a problem.

For what you want to do, I would think ABR11 Workstation might be the better way to go as it has a central management console and you'd only need to install agents on each partition, though I think you might need a licence per OS (you'd have to check with Acronis Sales on that), another alternative if you are using Windows 7 Ultimate would be to make your XP into a VHD and possibly your W7 (W7 of course would need to be in control of the boot sector so that the VHD('s) can be booted) and then you could use either TIH2012, ABR11 or ABR11 Virtual to make images. Your advantage here would be that if you wished you could have a master VHD image that could just be recovered instead of a raw OS so if your trainees did something weird, the OS itself wouldn't be damaged as you'd just restore a VHD.

Thanks for the reply Colin. Firstly I will try the XP repair install as this is an intermittent thing which makes it more annoying. Regarding Licensing, I have checked with Acronis (twice) and they confirm that I do not need to purchase a separate license for each partition as apparently the license is set for the NIC.

I looked at ABR11 but it seemed a bit "overkill" for my rather simplistic requirements, plus - I am expecting delivery of the full product licenses for TIH in a few days so I'm kinda stuck with it now anyway. Its Win 7 Pro (x64) but I take your point on the XP VHD option.

The XP partition will not get used so much as Win 7 so worst case scenario is that I boot into Win 7 and rebuild the XP partition from there.