Software → [Compatibility] acronis 11 with acronis 10 images

I have a few images i made with acronis true image 10 and i was wondering if i install acronis true image 11 could i use True image 11 to recover a TI 10 image or will it only work with TI 11 images ?

Alos i have a bootable rescue media disc that i made from true image 10 and will that bootable disc also work in TI 11 ?

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You will not be able to restore V11 images with a V10 CD. The image archive format has changed between V11 and V10. V11 will be able to restore V10 images.

That's good to hear that i can use v11 to recover v10 images and i guess also a 11 boot cd can recover v10 images as well..Im just hoping that v11 can do error-free data recovery from a v10 image which i suppose is the case ..

I still cant decide whether to uninstall v10 and install v11 ..Im worried that they may still be some bugs on v11..I have a dell E1505 notebook with XP nstalled and a HP m7790y desktop with vista ultimate installed..Has anybody done a v11 image and a succesful recovery with those PC's ?

Is there a specific problem you're having with TI10? If 10 is working for you I would leave well enough alone.

Thats what I'm going to do! v10 works fine!

It seems the first build of 11 is buggy according to many over at Wilder's Security. This is the first version I'm skipping as 10.0.4942 works great for me (3GB/minute imaging speed) and I already have a disk wiper...

Call me old school, but I'm still using V8 build 937.
For my hardware configurations, and the way I use the program (full images only, to a separate hard Drive...and no use at all for DVD backups), it's always worked awesome for me, and I've never seen a reason to update.
Why take the chance of messing up a good thing?

(Sorry, a little OT I know...just felt like mentioning it).

Jabarnut, I am doing the same thing as you. I wonder if any one here can fill us in as to any disadvantage to what we are doing.

None that I know of. The only reason I upgraded to 10 was to improve compatibility with newer hardware. I was only partially successful in the effort and I wouldn't make the assumption again.

gbp007 , something's unclear to me in what you are asking. Are you concerned with full-drive imaging/restoration from external media or with partial-imaging/restoration of specific files/folders from within Windows? What is your reason for considering the addition/replacement of TI-11 onto your computer which currently has TI-10?

If drive-imaging is your concern, both TI versions will provide an external-media method for restoring a drive from stored images created by that version. That's how you restore after a drive re-format, etc. Having a particular TI version "installed" in Windows is of value only for creating an image in the first place, and for restoring specific imaged files/folders from within Windows - that is, for 'partial' image restorations.

For full-image restoration (which is what seems to me to be your concern here), the appropriate v10 CD will always allow you to restore your v10 drive images, and a v11 CD would presumably allow you to restore either v10 or v11 drive images - in both cases regardless of whether either TI version was "installed" on the system just prior to such restoration. So if you have the correct external TI media used to perform a restore for both versions and as long as you keep your TI-10 image files identifiable from your IT-11 image files, you would simply use whichever TI-version CD is needed for the image-file version you want to restore.

Yes im only concerned in full backup images and the reason why i wanted to upgrade to 11 was just to have the latest version but it looks like im sticking with v 10 ..Im having a small problem and i was wondering if this happens to anybody using v10...After a full image backup using TI 10 was finished it took me to a black screen with a flashing white bar on the top left and one on the bottom middle..It was also letting me type too..I waited for like 5 minutes and the black screen would not dissapear so i did a hard boot and my pc restarted with the succesful image recovery but why did the screen go black before causing me to do a hard boot ? Is this normal or should i had waited a little longer for it to automatically restart ? I did this on a hp m7790y desktop pc with vista ultimate installed..

That's not something I've personally observed. Several questions:
1. Has TI done this (black screen latch-up) at past restorations, or is this 'new' for this restoration?
2. Have you run a good disk-analysis program on that hard drive since this appeared?
3. At the latch-up stage, did you try a CTRL-ALT-DEL key combination to try to move things along to a reboot?
4. Are you directing TI to 'verify' the restored files against the image file, and if so, did that process complete successfully before latch-up?

TrueImage's restoration CD is actually written to run TI's restoration in its 'full' form under Linux and in its 'safe' form under DOS. (see: »www.acronis.com/enterpri ··· Products) Consequently, whatever hiccup is occurring is not inherently a "Windows" problem. As far as the computer is concerned, until it has rebooted, it's merely looking at a hard drive being loaded full of bits, running under Linux (or DOS) in memory or CD. Normally in a restoration, TI loads itself from CD into memory, 'does its thing' with painting bits to the drive, verifies (if directed) the just-written bit records, and finally commands a computer reboot. To establish an accurate cause, a lot depends on precisely where in the final operations (from writing the last bit all the way to successfully issuing a valid reboot command to the hardware) that the latch-up occurs.