I bought it to back up a new HP laptop – Windows 7 OS, and like the previous edition which worked perfectly (with Vista), I decided to do a few 'full disc recoverys' to make sure it was working correctly and to get used to the interface after I installed it. This is what I have found:

Recovery wont start unless from a windows reboot and even then, sometimes it wont.

Acronis loader wont start, sometimes it wont start at all,, sometimes it starts but wont initiate a recovery – the screen just goes blank.

It wont recover from a backup unless that back up is stored in the secure zone – and only then, from Windows so if Windows fails to boot, TI becomes useless.

It wont create a secure zone on my main hdd, i've had to make one on an external hdd.

If I try to remove the secure zone it removes the secure zone but leaves the partition in place and is only detectable using the secure zone manager.

I've just tried to make a back up of the main (C:) drive again and although the opperation was apparently sucsessful (according to the on screen prompt), it wont recover from it.

Since doing that, it will no longer perform a recovery from the secure zone, from the Windows enviroment so in short, nothing works.

In addition, it takes ages to find the backups in the secure zone, every click takes ages to respond and it will often hang for no apparent reason.

TI may work with certain Windows operating systems but it doesn't work with my version of Windows 7.

I'm going to try and install Acronis 11 although i have a feeling the licencing agreement prevents me.