It works perfect. Please Read. I had a hard drive with 5 operating systems, Win 7, 8.1, Vista Ult, XP Pro, and XP Media Cent in a DEll 5150 Intel who's motherboard died a few days earlier. All files on the drive were still there. I had a Compaq Presario AMD to experiment with. My searching on how to install an existing Windows installation onto a different motherboard led me to Acronis Universal Restore, which led me to AcronisTrueImage2017 NG iso. I wanted to restore the Vista Ult on the harddrive. With the harddrive in, the Acronis cd in, I booted to Acronis. It said Starting Acronis Loader, then within 10 seconds a screen with options popped up for a couple seconds then it went straight to my normal windows boot menu. I choose Vista Ult and it actually booted to my same desktop. There were a lot of found new hardware messages. I just let it do its thing. While this was going on I checked system properties, it was still activated. In the istalling device drivers popup there were at least 20 items installed requiring restart, this was within 5 minutes of the boot. I didn't know what to expect after I restarted, but it did restart to the Vista Ult I knew. It was still genuine. The only thing I had to get was the soundcard driver, which I did. It all works fine. The whole process was automatic, I just selected Vista Ult from my boot menu.I did not have no image to create, just the iso on the cd. Acronis worked perfect.

@Roman-ji7zl

4 жыл бұрын

Besides the operating system, did you have access to your old data?

@SoItWouldBe

4 жыл бұрын

@@Roman-ji7zl we may never find out

@Roman-ji7zl

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoItWouldBe method did not work. I recovered it differently.

@SoItWouldBe

4 жыл бұрын

@@Roman-ji7zl how did you recover it?

@Roman-ji7zl

4 жыл бұрын

@@SoItWouldBe I did it the most primitive way. I used a clean disk and installed the same windows through an installation disk. Then I connected the drive that I wanted to recover and copied everything by hand onto the new disk. It was quite tedious.

As somebody who did Small Business IT support for years on his own, I must thank you for this tool. It made life so much easier!

i could have used this 10 hrs ago... but thankfully i found it and it worked, JOB DONE thanks acronis.

Wow it worked using Acronis 2019 this time! I tried this years ago unsuccessfully and really needed to do this on an office pc I built to save hours of restoring apps/data. I created the boot media using the Linux selection, didn't add any drivers, inf's or sys files. Just did the basic build and restored my image onto a NVMe M.2 hard drive and all booted up!

1:00 0 Table of Contents 1:02 1 How Acronis Universal Restore works 1:52 2 How to prepare to recorver 2:16 2-I Disk-level backup of your system disk or Entire PC backup 2:28 2-II Bootable media with Acronis True Image and Acronis Universal Restore 4:01 2-III Extracted drivers for new hardware 4:43 3 How to recover your sysytem to a new computer 4:46 3-I Make the bootable media the first boot device in BION 4:50 3-II Boot from the bootable media 4:45 3-III System Image Recovery using Acronis Ture Image 5:59 3-IV Drivers substitution using Acronis Universal Restore

So for me, I was moving a HD from a dead computer, to a new computer. All I had to do was: 1. Create the bootable media from Acronis Universal Restore as shown in this video (left it on defaults) 2. Download my chipset drivers, and USB controller drivers to the same USB drive I put the Universal Restore on (AUR did ask me for these when I didn't have them on there, so I copied them to the drive). You may have to extract the files from the files, and even then you may have to move the appropriate files from the WIN10 or WIN7 folder to the USB root after the extract. 3. Boot from the USB drive 4. Select Universal Restore 5. Add my USB drive as a 'Automatic driver search' location (not sure if I had to do this -- probably not...) 6. Click OK and let the process do its thing After taking out my USB drive and rebooting, I was able to boot into my Windows drive (after crashing everytime on the windows logo before that). The video can be confusing as it seems to describe certain instances for the restore, but I know a lot of people will need it as I did.

Genius!

Why is there no 'Deleting Partition' on the Finish tab where (5:41) you describe that "The sizes of the Deleting Partitions and Recovering Partitions must match!"

but i have a problem in select the media option my external hard disc is hidden in this section what will i do ???

I want to switch my Motherboard, but no other components, do i need the drivers from my GPU etc too, or only the chipset drivers?

Followed exactly as directed, and PC wont boot, and I cannot get to recovery console.

Very good video. Very much appreciated. However, I have still not gotten it to run. It hangs and then restarts the pc. Anyone know of a more detailed video?

I would like to have step-by-step instructions

10 years ago acronis is much more simpler and i succeeded in universal restore at that time. Now wft why it is much more complicate? Is it because window 7 try to prevent Acronis from working? Can old version of acronis is usable with window 7?

Im tryng to use a Getac image on a Dell but it does not recognize any OS, so it doesn't work! any idea?

Hmmm sounds bloody complicated. Not sure I want to rely on this.. is it reliable?

@pharohbender

7 жыл бұрын

its very reliable if your understand it. the previous version had a disk that would just boot and do a universal restore easy 2016 you recover your image and then you boot with universal restore let it do its thing even if you get some errors and then windows boots... just did this on a Virtual Machine, like i said i was trying for ages to get it to work and in 5 mins of watching the video it worked perfectly.

2:43 in the Wizard Title: Boot or Boost !

@german69692007

5 жыл бұрын

Nice Catch :)

I'm assuming this would be done on a clean OS install? I'm switching mobos. so the boot drive will be the same. Will this process move Windows as well? When do I install the mobo drivers? Will the mobo cd have hd controller drivers?

@jimsomethingelse9493

7 жыл бұрын

I have that question too. Do I have to install a new copy of Windows first and all this does is move my system contents. If I have to install a new copy of windows does it have to be the same version?

@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783

6 жыл бұрын

nice, no answers after ten months... reassuring...not

installed the trial: NOTHING of that crap works. It NEVER get's the bootable media installed, no drivers, etc.

chipset drivers often come in an .exe. no way to extract .inf or others from that. what do you do in this case? does intel (or others) have a .inf (etc) version somewhere on their site for the usual chipsets?

@LinusKarlsson91

8 жыл бұрын

+Christian Gabriel C. Hi, download the driver-pack from ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/caps-softpaq/HP_Driverpack_Matrix_x64.html and extract it. You will get all the driver (include chipset) in one folder. (If it's an HP computer of course, otherwise use similar way on other brands). Almost all brands have this solution. If you still don't get the raw files you should be able to execute the exe-file and be able to unpack it through the process.

@ndog37

7 жыл бұрын

To execute a driver install you need to dism inject an inf file. No system is going to be clever enough to extract every format and figure out that stuff automatically.

@mybluemars

Жыл бұрын

I have not found a solution to this for a Dell Optiplex 7000. All brands including Dell should have driver packs with the .inf files easily available for downloads but they don't anymore!

Is this only adding new drivers to the new machine or does it also remove the drivers from the old hardware?

@Acronis

5 жыл бұрын

It only installs the drivers you provide - the old drivers must be uninstalled manually once the OS boots. The only exception is if you restore a VM to physical hardware - in this case, all service related to VM (VMware Tools or HyperV Guest services) will be disabled, but still, you must uninstall them manually after first boot.

@owenkinnan9925

5 жыл бұрын

It creates a new hardware abstraction layer (HAL.dll) so that it does not have to remove old drivers. The new HAL created will not recognize the old drivers, only the new ones that are installed.

How can you determine what the correct disk drivers are?

@strukitru

3 жыл бұрын

They dont need drivers, your mainboard controlls them

So basically you have to be an IT pro to figure this shit out. I'm still confused after watching this. I have my old hard drive going into a new computer, and I don't want to wipe everything on it. I just want to boot to my disk and be done. It looks like this does some kind of restore to it.

*Acronis* Is it possible to restore a backup to an external disk and then install this external disk into my laptop (target) and boot normally? The backup originates from the target Laptop.

@Acronis

7 ай бұрын

In your scenario it is easier to clone the drives. Connect the original disk via USB and put the new blank disk inside the laptop. Check this video for more info kzread.info/dash/bejne/apadxrSaYK2zlZc.html

@PlanetIscandar

7 ай бұрын

@@Acronis This won't work. The monitor of the laptop is broken. I need to connect an external monitor via Type-C connector. But the external monitor doesn't work under True Image enviroment. It works only in Windows enviroment (not even in safe mode).

@PlanetIscandar

7 ай бұрын

@@Acronis This is why i need to copy the Windows image file (True Image) to an external SSD from another computer and then install this SSD to my laptop.

4:59 It gives me "Archive no supported" error when trying to choose revory files (.tib)

@Acronis

3 жыл бұрын

Hello @StrukiTru, this may occur when the content of the archive is not suitable for that type of recovery that is shown in the video. E.g. you're trying to recover the machine from the file-level backup. Or the backup you're trying to recover is not compatible with the version of bootable media you're using. E.g. you create the backup using Acronis True Image 2021, but using the bootable media of Acronis True Image 2018 to restore the backup (compatibility table - kb.acronis.com/content/1689). Lastly, the archive may become corrupted while being stored (e.g. bad blocks occurred on the storage drive) or while being copied to another media (network transmission failures) so it is also best to validate it to exclude this as a possible cause. If all of the above rules out as a possible reason in your case - please work with our Support team towards further investigation (kb.acronis.com/content/8153).

If i have a acronis backup with acronis 2011 Then if bootable cd not work then Can we recover the same backup with acronis 2021

@Acronis

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. Here is the KB article for reference - kb.acronis.com/tib

VERY COMPLICATED EXPLANATION, I just want to back up my PC to an image and in case I can not boot anymore due any problem, to be able to restore the image! I notice too many type of programs and stuff that make this process from Acronis very difficult for not savvy hardware stuff! what a pitty

So far NOT impressed!! I followed these steps to the T and the Universal Restore will not find an OS

how about restore to the same computer, will this work?

@Acronis

5 жыл бұрын

You don't need to use Acronis Universal Restore if you are recovering to the same computer (given that the hardware of the computer wasn't altered since last backup was made).

@ecec5863

5 жыл бұрын

@@Acronis i have used it to restore to my same computer, because my pc affect by virus, however, Acronis Universal Restore can be restore both to the same pc or different pc

@Acronis

5 жыл бұрын

@@ecec5863 Yes, you can still use Acronis Universal Restore even if restoring to the same PC. But in this case, your backup will already contain all required drivers for Windows (which is obvious since the backup was created from that same PC when it was fully functional).

this video doesnt explain anything at all. is windows 10 Linux based? if not, i'd have to chose windows PE, then i get a list down there with windows PE 2.0 media, windows PE 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, AND NONE OF THEM SAYS its fow Windows 10! i cant click next till i download one of the above. This acronis Unversal Restore is useless.

@jimsomethingelse9493

7 жыл бұрын

I don't think so. I think these are just two different ways of doing the same thing

@ttimetotroll

7 жыл бұрын

What are you talking about? Dude, obviously Windows 10 is not Linux based. Also what is your question exactly? Where do you see this Windows PE list? If you are creating a WinPE boot drive, it doesn't matter which version it is. How is AUR useless just because you don't understand how the Windows OS work?

@DreiK96

6 жыл бұрын

When you create your Universal Restore bootable media, it asks you whether you use Linux (Windows-like) or WindowsPE. I also encountered the same trouble with WindowsPE and I'm working on a Windows Server 2016.

Use Drive Clone Pro instead, it Support to boot in different computers..

@markfarrell6810

6 жыл бұрын

Does not handle a new hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for a new motherboard/chip set/video card/NIC/etc...

This sounds pretty flaky. In the past, I've physically moved Windows C-Drives to different machines and it always has worked. Windows has gotten pretty robust. In this case, I'm going to a different type of drive so I have to do it "non-physically." I'm going to make an image of my new PC's C-drive, make an image of my old PC's C-drive, and then restore my old PC's C-drive image onto my new PC's C-drive. If it doesn't work, then I'll restore the new PC's C-drive and put all the old programs in one-by-one. That would be safer and easier. And before restoring the image, I'll make screen caps of all the new PC's settings so I can re-set the ones that seem more appropriate to the new PC.

Acronis TI technical support is not good at all; it proposes the new versions but does not answer any question, for example: if I ask if, after removal of a partition, ATI will be able to format it (in NTFS) in order to re-install Windows 10: NO ANSWER! It says to uninstall a version (2016) to install ATI 2019. Oh yes? And how can you uninstall a program on a system that is "broken"? (.. Very bad technical support. In addition they propose to install a trial version with which one can NOTHING to do.From now on, I will use another software!

@Acronis

5 жыл бұрын

Hello Renato, we don't see how it is relevant to the topic of the video above. Please provide the case number so that we analyze your interactions with Support. We're also certain that the trial version allows testing of any feature available in the products, see here for more details - kb.acronis.com/limitoftrial

Complicated as fk

WOW... did these guys ever FUCK UP this software! I used to use Acronis religiously and they have absolutely butchered it since the release of the 2014 version! I don't know WHO was in charge of the front end but it is now the most confusing piece of backup software that I've ever used. Don't take my word for it though, have a look around for reviews... 'Dismal' to say the least.

The video runs too fast for you to understand it. It assumes you already are an IT expert. The video is not well coordinated with the audio. What a waste of time.

the robot voice makes it difficult to know when a sentence has ended or not

Да когда вы уже научитесь делать свой корявый софт нормально?! В 2021 году ваш софт не в состоянии из под винды распаковать линукс образ на внешний носитель! 2021 год на дворе и вы еще за такое говно просите денег? Да ну нахер!

@Acronis

3 жыл бұрын

Hello @Minas Morgul, would you mind elaborating more into the issues as it is not certain at this point whether the cause of the problem lies in the product; it is also not clear how is the issue relevant to the matter of the above video, please share more info on that as well. Also, has this issue been reported to the Support team and if so - what is the case number?

my external hard disc is not showing up in select media option look like hidden