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Acronis True Image 2010 and VHD creation.

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For those seeing this twice realized I posted this to the wrong forum.

Based upon the following entry in the data sheet for Acronis True Image 2010.

Save backup images (.tib) as virtual hard disk (.vhd) files. Run your existing system as a virtual machine, or boot using Windows 7 Ultimate

I purchased upgrade. I then did backup and process to convert to .vhd. I tried to first use .vhd in Virtual PC 2007 and it wouldn't mount. I then tried with Virtual PC that comes with Windows 2007 and had same problem.

Has anyone had success converting .tib to .vhd and then running from Virtual PC? Is there some trick or process I am missing.

Of note the hard disk I backed up was Windows XP. It was about 90 GB, tib was about 80 GB and .vhd created was about 150 GB. This seems odd in itself.

I tried submitting issue to Acronis support but that was several days ago and I haven't heard a thing back from them.

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Hello Robert,

Thank you for using Acronis Products

You can convert Acronis True Image Home 2010 TIB file to Windows backup VHD file to be able to boot from it. Check the following article for step-by-step instructions.

To be clear I did this and while it created a .vhd it wouldn't mount and the size was twice the size as the tib and disk it came from. See my original comments on problem description.