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Reinstall XP, use old backups

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Hi,
I've been using True Image 2009 on XP Pro for about 18 months with not too many problems. Touch wood. I need to reinstall XP on the same partition and I want to know if True Image, AFTER I have reinstalled IT, will be able to see and use the backups it currently has in the Secure Zone.

I'm assuming from what I have seen on this forum that TI2009 is not for use on Windows 7.

Thanks
Mike

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Assuming you are only going to restore the partition with XP it sholdn't be a prob -- I think you might have to reinstall ATI, otherwise it shouldn't be a prob. Here's a good reason not to use a SZ, if you weren't you could jsut copy the backups toa temporary drive and not worry at all about any probs reinstalling XP.

Thanks for the reply but I must have asked my question badly.

I'm not planning to restore the XP partition, I'm going to format the partition and completely reinstall from the original disks then reinstall all my applications, including True Image 2009. The backups I am thinking about are of documents and other stuff.

I just want to know that a new install of True Image 2009 will happily pick up the old SZ and be able to restore stuff in the future.

I hadn't even thought about not using a SZ. I shall go ponder that for the future.

So is there a way of getting a backup OUT of the SZ and onto an external drive other than restoring to a new location and backing up to the external.

Mike

Hi,

I have a similiar problem. Is there a way reuse old backup plans after reinstall of ATI 2011?

Roberto

Imo, if you are reinstalling, I'd recommending build tasks from scratch. It will be simpler than than browsing existing backups, opening them to edit the task parameters and having to respecify many of them. Also, it's possible all the backups that formerly where in one "group/task" won't be discovered as such when ATI broses for them.

Roberto,

If you have an ASZ, when you uninstall ATI, it will ask you if you want to preserve the ASZ. If you do, make sure you install the same version afterwards, then the reinstalled ATI should see it.
If you are not sure, you can try to move the backups from the ASZ to another destination. The move command is the one within ATI, not with Windows Explorer (that cannot see the ASZ). Once moved, make sure you validate the moved backups.

If you don't use the ASZ, when you uninstall ATI normally through Windows, you will lose your backup settings, but not your backup files. If you uninstall with the cleanup utility, you will lost your backup settings, but not your backup files and ATI will rediscover all your backups and add them to the backup list as individual backups. To avoid this, you can move the TIB files to a hidden folder.