Jafo, you gotta quit quoting Wiz, it's going to his head....hehe. 

2012 was out for a year. You were late for the party.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/  Upgrade for $19.99

Exactly how cheap would you like it?

Okay you lot, I get it... it's my fault Acronis 2012 doesn't work because I installed Win 8.

The point is, however, 2012 is not yet over, Windows 8 is all you can get when buying a new machine [thus making it the current OS], yet Acronis will not update True Image 2012 [the current edition] for 1000's of loyal customers who happen to be current with MS' preferred OS.... and you'll see just how preferred it is when support for previous editions ceases in around 12 to 18 months time.

What am I complaining about?  If I were bitching about True Image 2006 I could see your point... because that software is ancient in software terms  However, [see above], what I'm bitching about is a software that was released for 2012, yet is useless for a 2012 released OS... before 2012 is over, and Acronis has no intention of updating it.  I'd say that the topic makes perfect sense

Doesn't matter if I was late to the party or not... it's STILL 2012, is it not?

Um..... how about zero dollars up front.  Why?  Because I would have to replace 2 pieces of software... True Image and the 2012 'Plus Pack', which bundles features [dissimilar hardware, etc] other devs have included as standard in their main backup program.  There's 100's of users bitching on the Acronis forums about that one, among other things [adding bloat without fixing known issues], and many have, or are purchasing alternative solutions to their backup needs.   I may yet do that... though I'll be keeping the $19.99 upgrade price in mind.  Guess I'll see after checking out the competition and how Win 8's backup utility performs.

Mark...Mark...Mark. God love ya.......let me just say this about that.....................Ok I got nothing...what was the problem?

Oh!

There it is!!!

Bingo! I just solved the problem! Thank you thank you ...I'm here all week.

I went to amazon.com, clicked on 'desktop computer' then clicked on the first computer in the 'best selling' category.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0078RKT36/ref=s9_hps_bw_g147_ir01?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-7&pf_rd_r=1ZGPGPS77KBJ5Y7W60WY&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1281815122&pf_rd_i=565098

Operating system is listed under product features, end of the first line.

Starkers....it's not 'current' and hasn't been for some time.....my icon says 'True Image 2013' .....it's date [for me] is ....1 October 2012....

It's like magazines - they often have a date that is far ahead of the actual date, and often you can't get, say a November magazine when it is very far into November.

Mark, I think the world of ya mate, but you gotta lay off smoking that cabbage.  The curry powder is making you imagine shit that just ain't so.

Back to the OP. even if the upgrade is cheap, you'll be back in the same sinking boat with the next OS. ( Which some  will be quick to adopt, I am sure and just as quick in complaining about incompatibilities) Why bother? Just move on and chalk it up to a lesson learned.

P.S. There are tens of thousands of Windows 7 machines still for sale. You didn't think they all got scrapped or sent back to have Whine8 installed didja?

You built yourself a fine rig with all the latest and greatest parts and have been in the forums telling all just how fast it is, and I'm happy for you but............benchmarks don't mean squat if your software won't run on it. 

Oh the irony of WinCustomize...

HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!

FTW!  Brilliant!  

*Fuzzy now owes doc a screen, keyboard.

@DOC     Thanks...I din't know that.

OK... here it is:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/redobackup/files/redobackup-livecd-1.0.4.iso/download?use_mirror=iweb

This is free, and is a bare metal recovery/restore program. 237 MB in an iso.

Bare-metal restore is a technique in the field of data recovery and restoration where the backed up data is available in a form which allows one to restore a computer system from "bare metal", i.e. without any requirements as to previously installed software or operating system.

Typically, the backed up data includes the necessary operating system, applications and data components to rebuild or restore the backed up system to an entirely separate piece of hardware. In some configurations, the hardware receiving the restore needs to have an identical configuration to the hardware that was the source of the backup, although virtualization techniques and careful planning can enable a bare-metal restore to a hardware configuration different from the original.

Disk imaging applications enable bare-metal restores by storing copies (images) of the entire contents of hard disks to networked or other external storage, and then writing those images to other physical disks. The disk image application itself can include an entire operating system, bootable from a live CD or network file server, which contains all the required application code to create and restore the disk images. -Wikipedia

 

http://www.neowin.net/news/redo-backup-and-recovery-104

• Easy graphical user interface boots from CD in less than a minute
• No installation needed; runs from a CD-ROM or a USB stick
• Saves and restores Windows and Linux machines
• Automatically finds local network shares
• Access your files even if you can't log in
• Recover deleted pictures, documents, and other files
• Internet access with a full-featured browser to download drivers
• Live CD download size is only about 200MB

You lot must be behind over there in them states of tha USA... here in Oz, every major store is offering machines with Win 8 preinstalled, and nothing else.... like no Win 7 of any flavour.  Checked in with a few smaller stores and the story's the same.... NO WIN 7.  As for XP and Vista... well it's go whistle... has been for about 18 months or more.

Jafo, you may have TI 2013, but it is STILL 2012.... meaning my 2012 copy is current.  Just because you bought your copy early, don't mean mine is out of date. 

It won't be until 31.12.2012, if you want to get testic... er,  technical.

So wot yer sayin', then, is that I can pick up December's Playboy [for the articles] now?

Hehe, the last time I purchased a playboy was December 1980 or 81... I remember it well.  A friend told me it had a hilarious take on the 12 days of Christmas song inside and that I should read it.  Well I did... read it... well partly at least.  Yeah, I was laughing so loud the newsagent said I was disturbing his customers and asked me to leave.... meaning I needed to purchase the damned mag if'n I wanted to finish the joke.  So, I took it home and amongst the bevy of busty beauties was the uproarious '12 Days Of Christmas'... and I don't think I've laughed so hard since.

However, I yet again digress....

double post

Another free option that works with 8: http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx