Hypothetical question for me at the moment because I had to abandon my W8 dual boot because of unresolved start up and shut down errors... however,
The question is this.
A program such as Acronis TI is designed to work and run from "within" Windows and as such the version of Acronis used has to be compatable with the OS. So an older version of TI won't for example work with Vista or W7. So far so good.
What would happen then if you used Acronis "outside" of the OS you wanted to back up (W8 for example) ?
So for a single boot W8 install, could any version of Acronis be run from the Acronis CD and successfully image a W8 install. My reasoning is that Acronis itself has no knowledge of the OS and simply makes an image of what is on a partition. If so could it perform incremental backups too, such that if an image were restored from these it would be successful ?
And for a dual boot, well if you have for example Acronis running in Vista, could you then run Acronis as normal from Vista and image the (non active) W8 partition ?
The question is this.
A program such as Acronis TI is designed to work and run from "within" Windows and as such the version of Acronis used has to be compatable with the OS. So an older version of TI won't for example work with Vista or W7. So far so good.
What would happen then if you used Acronis "outside" of the OS you wanted to back up (W8 for example) ?
So for a single boot W8 install, could any version of Acronis be run from the Acronis CD and successfully image a W8 install. My reasoning is that Acronis itself has no knowledge of the OS and simply makes an image of what is on a partition. If so could it perform incremental backups too, such that if an image were restored from these it would be successful ?
And for a dual boot, well if you have for example Acronis running in Vista, could you then run Acronis as normal from Vista and image the (non active) W8 partition ?
My Computer
System One
-
- OS
- W10 x64 pro and W8.1 x86
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301
- CPU
- Intel i5/AMD Turion 64
- Memory
- 4Gb/2Gb
- Graphics Card(s)
- Intel i5 internal/NVidia GEFORCE GO 6100
- Sound Card
- Realtek
- Hard Drives
- 250Gb SSD and 120Gb
- Mouse
- HP Z4000
- Internet Speed
- 76 down, 20 up
- Browser
- MS Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender