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removing TIH also disabled Windows 7 backup & restore; how do I get it back?

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Last week I abandoned our Acronis True Image Home 2011 backup and restore program because it was eating up too much of our external hard drive on the weekly backups. I went to our Windows 7 backup program and backed up, using the default settings.

I was a bit suspicious when there was no indication of the backup progress, but the external hard drive was doing its thing so I let it go. I also set it up to back up our files every Sunday at 10 a.m. Today it seemed to back things up, but again there was no way for me to track the backup’s progress.

When it was all done, I thought I’d better check so I went to the control panel and clicked on “backup and restore.” Nothing happened. I rebooted the computer and tried again. Nothing. When I click on the “backup and restore” link, absolutely nothing happens. It’s as though the backup software is not on our Windows 7 Professional software.

A Microsoft forum indicated this is a problem known to Acronis and is caused when the Acronis Trui Image Home program is deleted. It said there is a hack (?) to fix the problem. What’s a hack? How can I repair this problem?

Thanks.

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Have a look at this post; http://forum.acronis.com/forum/14782
Scroll down to Grant's post "News Alert" and follow that procedure,worked for me.

I have read the all the postings in 14782. You gentlemen spent so much time resolving this problem on your own, without help from Acronis. Your dedication and perseverance is really amazing and impressive. I am hoping to avoid dealing with the same problem, so a question, please. Is this also an issue with TIH 2010? I bought this version almost a year ago but never installed it, waiting until I got around to reconfiguring my system and installing Windows 7. Now that’s done, and TIH 2010 is installed. Before I even try to use Windows 7 backup, is there something I should do with TIH – even uninstall it – to avoid the problem you have all had to deal with?

Thank you very much!

Travis,

As long as you can run your backups with Windows, you don't have to worry about the 2011 problem.