I'm currently running Windows Vista & was wondering if I installed Win7 would I still able to revet back to Vista using an Acronis Back-up of some sort?
Hi, The simple answer is Yes
You can make disc image of both and then if the worst comes to the worst you can reimage to either Win7 or Vista as the fancy takes you.
Some extra thoughts:
1 Make sure that your images are verified, accurate and reproducible…..an unverified image is bad news….if you come to use it …it must work!
2 Keep the images safe on removable media (ext hard drive) a separate partition created by say Acronis on your internal hard drive is fine, and also faster than an ext USB hard drive, but is useless if your hard drive fails. ( that's why you need the ext hard drive, however an additional internal hardrive would also be fine and fast!
3 Make a bootable CDRom so in the event you can't boot into Windows you can set your BIOS to allow booting from CDRom as priority 1 with Harddrive 0 as Priority 2, learn how to do this in advance of needing urgently to do it!
4 The Acronis boot disc creator tool uses Linux to boot the machine (with full USB support) and this is your "get out of jail card" if Windows won't boot because of serious corruption.
Regards
paws
Hi manicd,
Here's the info on sector by sector Imaging ………(straight from the horses mouth!) http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/produ…-sector-backup/
This is something that you would not in the ordinary course of events want to do…………..( only in special circumstances)
Regards
paws
Manicd,
Also take into consideration the Version type of your Vista and the Version Type of your Windows 7.
In some instances, if you "upgrade" to Windows 7, the prior Vista Product Key "may" loose its authority to be automatically activated.
(Vista is used as the "qualifying product" for Windows 7 update and in the process that Vista product key is de-listed and no longer valid for separate use.
Sure, if you have Vista "imaged" with a verified Acronis backup, Vista will "run" if/when you restore it.
But the first time that you go to MS Updates or allow automatic updates, your Vista may be identified by WGA as a non-valid copy (no longer valid) key, and not allow activation.
To resolve this "possible" situation, you may have to phone MS Activation, explaining what you have done before they will give you a fresh and valid Vista activation code.
If you were to go back and forth between Vista and Win7 multiple times, the same time/labor intensive requirements may be repeated.
