Will TI Home 11.8053 work with Windows 7 Home Premium?

I installed it with no problem. I made scheduled tasks which were said to be successful. Regrettably I did not do a restore, so could not say it was working. Acronis said in one of the threads, that it was not supported. I now have TI2010. Not much help. sorry. J

This is the article I referrd to from Acronis

Thanks for the response, Mistral. It appears that an upgrade would be necessary for Win 7 - not anxious to risk a corruption of the operating system.

Mary

I also have TI Home 11, Build 8053 and Windows 7 Home Premium. I have 3 image backups saved on a USB hard drive made earlier in 2010. I have tried to restore one of them and version 11 will not recognize the hard drive. Are these backups no good now and can not be used to restore my computer to one of those dates?? If so, that does not set well with me. Will appreciate your answer and I really look forward to reading it. Thank you.

So far as I know, no TI version prior to True Image Home 2010 has support for Win 7. Some pre-TI 2010 versions work with Win 7 for some folks under some specific conditions, but Win 7 operability for these earlier versions is not claimed by Acronis nor supported by them.

Bu Yo,
You can try returning to your registration page and download the iso file and burn it into a rescue CD. That version is different than you one you created from your installation. It may or may not work.

One rule many of us follow is when we install any version of any backup software. That is,
Create your rescue Cd and then boot from it.
Perform a backup from the CD to your backup storage drive. Even perform a test restore.

This test serves to make sure that all your drives can be seen and functional immediately following the restore. Past postings show user make their Windows mode backups but never check to see whether their drives are visible or whether their recovery will work--until it is too late or a crisis arises. Do your testing before a crises arises.

Version 11 does not support Windows 7. Only TrueImageHome version 2010 officially supports Windows 7. There will be no changes made to version 11 since it has been replaced by two newer versions.

Thanks for your input. Don't know what I am to do about restoring either of the backups I made earlier this year while using Windows 7 64 bit. IF I chose to update to version 10, do you know IF I can then use those backups. If not, then I am stuck with worthless software. Acronis should NOT have allowed me to even make those backups using version 11; knowing that I then had Win7. Maybe that is the way Acronis forces us to update the software. I have used Acronis TI for years and years; beginning with version 6.
BTW, I am NOT yelling at you but I do hope Acronis gets an ear full.

EDIT: After I perform a backup I ALWAYS check the backup to be sure I can can see files and validate same.

Be careful in your use of version identification. Version 10 is the version prior to version 11.
Version 2009 replaced version 11.
Version 2010 replaced version 2009. Version 2010 has support for Win7.

Retain your version 11 Rescue CD and it can be used to restore any backup that was created with version 11.
Version 11 will not restore a backup created by version 2010 but 2010 has regularly restored version 11 backups.

From the Acronis perspective, they guarantee only to restore the prior version (2009) backup, but in reality, the 2010 has actually restored versions 9 and 10 backups-- according to some of the postings here.

For testing, a spare disk is ideal. You can really find out whether the restore functions works or not.

If the validation (for a disk image backup) is done under the bootable media, is should be useful for restoring. But, it is your responsibility to check this as Grover pointed out. It is the user's responsiblity to make sure backups/restores work under their own circumstances. There is no realistic way that Acronis can guarantee the situation you described will work - there are too many variable beyond their control.

Depending on your backup needs, if a version of TI prior to 2010 works under bootable media for your particular hardware setup, i.e., you have appropriate driver support, then you can use the prior version as long as you wish independent of any installed operating system. The key is the driver support issue when running from bootable media. Others successfully run older versions of TI from bootable media on Win 7 systems, but this has nothing to do with Win 7 - it has to do totally with bootable media having adequate driver support for a particular combination of hardware, and this is beyond Acronis's control.

I don't see that any software vendor guarantees that older versions are guaranteed to work forever. I don't see that Acronis is unique in this area. Since TI 11 was made long before Win 7, I don't see how Acronis should NOT have allowed me to even make those backups using version 11; knowing that I then had Win7 when TI 11 does not "know" what Win 7 is.

Thanks to both you; Grover and Gary for trying to set me straight on these matters. So if 2010 will restore my version 11 backups--or at least my choice of them(1 is the machine after "doctoring" Win7; ie. after deleting all the crapware in Win7) then I should be happier to update to 2010. If I were considering a 1TB external drive, could I just save those backups to the larger drive, after installing 2010 and the 1TB HD, of course. Quiet naturally I was a bit upset to learn--after the fact--that my earlier backups could not be used to restore my machine. Just maybe I have been the only one to receive such a surprise. ;(

You could try the trial version of TI 2010, but this requires installation of the package, I think (I don't know if the trial version has a downloadable ISO image available...). You could then see if the prior backups are recognized and validate when running under Win 7, although this is not an absolute guarantee that all is well. It is always most desirable to validate running under bootable media, at least for disk backups, since recovery of disk images is done under the recovery environment of the bootable media. Your backups themselves may be just fine. The limitation may be hardware/driver support,. since you say version 11 will not recognize the hard drive. It is not clear if you tried the downloadable ISO image for TI 11 available in your account for bootable media - we would recommend that you try this first and see if your hard drive is seen and that your backups validate.

Gary, thanks for your continued help but I'm afraid I am lost. What is ISO, where do I find the file(I have the home version 11 install CD). Is it on that CD. I have a boot CD burned(I think)after having installed the software in 07 or perhaps it was 08. I looked in my Acronis account but did not see anything mentioning ISO.

EDIT: I just re-visited my account again and this time I found and have now downloaded the ISO and will burn it to a disk and see what happens when I run it. I will report back later. BTW, I must be blind in one eye and can't see outta the other!!!!

Like a dog that chases a car--what is he to do with it if he catches the car?! I burned the ISO file but now what am I to do with it? It was just under 30 megs in length.

An ISO file is an image of a bootable CD, essentially. This has to be burned to a CD, but not as a file - some programs (such as Nero) know how to handle an image file, and burn these to a CD in a special way, different from a regular file. You can tell if the ISO image was burned as a regular file by checking the CD contents with Windows Explorer - if you just see the filename.iso, this was not burned as a image. If it was burned as an image, you will see something else, but no *.iso file.

You then boot your computer from this CD (most BIOSes support this as a boot option, or you change the boot order in BIOS). It basically creates a ramdisk, loads a Linux kernel into the ramdisk, and runs TI in the ramdisk. This is how it works independently of any installed operating system. The bootable CD uses its own system. No hard disk is booted at all.

The Acronis TrueImage Iso file, when properly burnt as an image, becomes a replacement and/or supplement for the TI Rescue CD created from the installed version. The iso Rescue CD has different drivers. If the basic user created Rescue CD has problems with your hardware, then it is possible that the iso Rescue CD may not have the same problem. plus it offers several menu options to help with varying hardware issues.

The iso Rescue CD is just another tool supplied by Acronis to help you to have successful backups and restores.

Congratulations good people--success and I have now also seen proof of the verified backup archive of one of my backups (about 2 hours to do it). Also saw my 3-4 backups I have done this year. I used the CDBurner XP software to burn the ISO. Great job!!
I cannot recall ever burning an ISO for Acronis before and therefore must assume that burning such an ISO is very important each time a new TI version is bought and installed.
Guess I had better find a good price for 2010, buy it and install it, burn an ISO and then do a backup. The $30 offer by TI is OK but I would prefer to have the install CD; not just a download.
Again I say thank you guys for a job well done with this old dummy.
BTW, I downloaded and saved the 2010 30 day trial. Doubt that I will install it but instead buy the real 2010. But before doing this, it is safe to assume that the installed trial would just be over written buy the real 2010 or would I have to first remove the trial.

Don't put too much importance in having the original purchased cd. It is usually outdated. Once you download the latest version and create a Rescue CD, you have the equivalent of the purchased version.

Create a new Rescue CD every time you install a new build or version onto your computer. Use a Sharpie pen and write the serial number on the CD. Retain all Rescue CD's that you write for possible use in the future. Don't throw the old ones away.

Once you have purchased your license, you can input the license into the installed trial version and it become the same as what you would download after purchase.

The ISO file is available for use when the normal installed user created Rescue CD has problems with your hardware. Be sure and create a new REscue CD once you have installed the license into your installation. The trial CD has limited functions. You need to create a Rescue CD after it becomes a valid installation.

Thanks again Grover. I have updated just about every software CD I have ever had and this would be no exception.
I will have to remember to burn an ISO image of each new version of Acronis I buy; starting with TI 2010 !!