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Has anyone here read the 26 negative out of 144 total reviews on Amazon? If so what are your thoughts on those. I am thinking of upgrading from TI hopme 11 (not 2011) on my Win 7 home premium 64 bit machine but am reluctant to to so due to the negative comments.

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Steve

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There is a big change from 2014 to 2015 with less features overall, a simplified UI, etc.
If you can backup and restore fine with TI11, keep it.
If you want to try, do a backup with TI11, then uninstall TI, install the trial and see for yourself. YOu have money back guarantee for the first 30 days.

Basically, that is what I have done and installed trail of TI 2015. TI 11 stopped running properly on my Win 7 64 bit machine for some reason, with C++ run time error on the ntdll.dll file, sometimes on error at all. I spent way to much time trying to figure out the problem, so put TI 2015 on. So far seems OK. I only have two specific uses for TI, backing up emails and backing up the system. For the system, I copy all system files to another identical drive (but partitioned differently) in the PC so I have a dual boot system with identical O/S, so that if one drive gets corrupted, I can boot from the other, or physically move it to the right slot to resume work. However, TI 11 allowed me to copy the MBR as well, not sure yet if TI 2015 will allow that. Will be testing tonight and next week.

Steve

Yes, 2015 will copy the MBR. Note that unlike T11, 2015 uses the Microsoft snapshot manager, which excludes certain files, in particular some Outlook caching files (PST are OK). These exclusions are in the registry and can be removed.
With a dual boot system, I recommend you perform regularly backups from the recovery CD of Acronis.

How will using the recovery CD help? Does it negate the need for Windows recovery disk?

The Windows recovery disk is completely different, and deals with repairing Windows when needed, from a boot record fix to a reinstall.
The Acronis recovery CD is there to complete clone and restore operations, even to a blank disk.
For backup operations, with a dual boot, you will have to try how running Acronis from Windows will cover your needs. Running it from the recovery CD should work nicely.