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Installing Acronis True Image 2016 0n a Vista operating system

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I have True Image 2015 on my Dell desktop w/Windows 10.  It works fine.  So, I decided to pick up True Image 2016 (3 computer) for the other "machines" in the house.  I have a new Dell Windows 10 laptop and my wife's Dell desktop running Vista.  That's the problem.  True Image 2016 supports XP but not Vista.(????) What happens if I attempt to install it on the the Vista Machine?  Can I backup everything except the operating system, or won't it work at all?  I'm not sure that I want to upgrade to Windows 10.  Is it the only option?

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George, if you go by the official Acronis support documents then the last version of ATIH to support Vista was 2011, however when I took this up a while back in the MVP forums, I was told that this was simply because the later versions were not tested on Vista hence they did not mention Vista in the supported list of OS's.  As there is support listed for XP SP3 and 7, then there is every chance that ATIH 2016 will work on Vista OK.

See KB document: 56517: Acronis True Image 2016: Supported Operating Systems and read how it supports XP SP3 with limitations!

I have a serial numbe for the Acronis True Image HD and when I try to run the program, it says you must have a WD disc on the system???I am trying to clone a hard drive on my desktop using the software provided by Crucial who provided the SSD-thanks the HDD on the desktop is a Seagate.

William, you should try to create a new post for your issue / question instead of tagging on to another users post when you are asking about a totally different issue.

Please see KB document: 2201: Support for OEM Versions of Acronis Products

OEM versions of Acronis may impose restrictions to tie them to particular vendor products as it seem is the case for your WD OEM version.  You will need to go back to Crucial and ask them for a version that will work with the SSD they supplied to you.