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Single restore CD for entire family (or are restore CDs machine-specific)?

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I purchased a family pack of TIH2011. I made a restore CD from the first PC I installed it on. Do I need to make a restore CD for each computer I install TIH2001 on, or can I use the same restore CD?

I guess what I am asking is whether the restore CD is specific to the details of each PC (i.e. host OS, drivers, build number of TIH).

In what instances should one make a new restore CD? After upgrading TIH to a new build? After installing a new driver?

Thank you.

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No. The recovery CD is not machine specific, but the backups are: you cannot restore a backup of machine A on machine B, where machine B has a different motherboard. You would need the Universal Restore feature that comes with Plus Pack to do that. You can restore the backup of machine A on a new disk in machine A.
There is no need to update the restore CD if it continues working with your machine as you upgrade it.

You should read the EULA for the product:

http://www.acronis.com/support/eula-home.html

But briefly a single license lets you use the software on a single machine. It says:

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you may transfer your license to another computer in the event that you cease to use the computer on which the Software was originally installed. If you wish to protect multiple computers, you must obtain a separate paid license for each computer or you must obtain a multi-computer license which will be applicable to the number of computers stated in such license.

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You can use it on another machine but you may not. But read the EULA yourself for details.

sh

Thanks for the replies.

Scott, in my original post you may have missed that I wrote that I purchased a family pack (i.e. 3 licenses). So I was only asking about using the same restore CD on those three licensed installs, as opposed to needing to create a different restore CD for each licensed machine.

Linux-based recovery CD changes when the new build is released, but drivers installed on your system don't affect it - you can download the CD .iso image from your account - it obviously doesn't know anything about your drivers. However, if it works for you, there is no need to make the new one. Recovery CD made by older build of the same version may or may not read archives made by newer builds ( it's hard to say for sure because relevand KB articles are removed from the site)

My apologies. You can and you may use it on each of the machines.. The bootcd created by ATI is not different depending on which machine it is created on. The only way to get a boot cd that is particular to a specific machine is to use bart or vistaPE where you add specific drivers yourself.

arctan wrote:

Thanks for the replies.

Scott, in my original post you may have missed that I wrote that I purchased a family pack (i.e. 3 licenses). So I was only asking about using the same restore CD on those three licensed installs, as opposed to needing to create a different restore CD for each licensed machine.