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Migration how to?

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According to the acronis website, it is possible to "migrate everything from one Windows system to another, including a new PC." But I can't seem to figure out how. I've checked the help files and looked at the website but can't find anything.

Any ideas?

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You have to use Universal Restore. This is a feature that comes with the Premium products. Remember that the new PC will get the image of the old PC. If you restore a Win XP image of your old PC on a new PC that comes with Windows 8, for example, you end up with Windows XP.

Thanks. Boy that stinks! I was going to migrate from a machine with Win 7 to a machine with Win 8.

You can migrate all your files by doing a Files Backup and restore to the new machine. Universal restore is not needed to do this. You will have to re-install any applications. Universal restore is used for changing hardware like a new motherboard while retaining the current OS.