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Very disappointed with ATI Home 2010 & Win 7

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I loved ATI Home 10 (from about 2008). ATI Home 2009 seemed suddenly less well-designed from a user standpoint, but it seemed to work fine with XP. Now I have upgraded one system to Win 7 (Home Premium), so I also upgraded to ATI Home 2010, because the blurbs from Acronis said it was compatible with Win 7.

The nice user interface from ATI Home 10 is gone. Remember how you used to be able to select an Acronis image (to explore, for example) & see your nice little paragraph of comments you'd written describing the archive? That's gone now...you need to scroll along and read all the comments on one long line.

Much more disturbing is the fact that, apparently in Windows 7 at least, the rescue disc won't see more than one partition of a drive (even connected via USB) containing image archives. I have an external WD drive which is separated into 2 partitions of 160 GB each, containing dozens of .tib files. Booting from the rescue media, first I get errors ("cannot open module 'st' no such file or directory"), then I can see at best only one of the two partitions, sometimes I can't even see one. Simply put - this software does not work reliably with Win 7.

I understand I am entitled to 30 days (or is it 60?) of tech support after buying this product. But how to get support...there is no web form available on the Acronis site. The Sticky on this forum suggests contacting Acronis Customer Support with any issues...and even gives a link. The problem is that this link leads only to a page with FAQs and other self-service guides. I finally sent an email to Acronis, but it has been 3 days and no response (other than the auto-generated email saying they would respond).

Oh, what has happened to Acronis. I used to be able to recommend this software to all of my clients, I can no longer do so.

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Tim:

I think many of the problems with TI Home 2010 are being corrected as we speak. There is a very large post here listing the back-and-forth with Acronis Support, and they seem to have resolved the biggest issues.

However, if you like TI10 as much as I do, why not continue to use it?
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/5908

Hi Mark,

Thanks for your comments. I will consider this but on the face of it, proceeding like this seems a bit frightening. I'm hoping Acronis can address some of this and offer a build which at least comes close to the good old TI10.

Tim

Tim:

Understand. I did add a cautious tone to the article since Acronis hasn't identified any specific issues with TI 10 and Windows 7, but so far I haven't encountered any other than the same issues that have affected WinXP and Vista. I've done dozens of images and restores without issue since January of this year while beta-testing Windows 7.