using True image home backup with plus pack for transfer

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I don't pretend to understand much about True Image Home but I was under the impression that by getting the plus pack (which I bought last fall) I would be able to transfer my data from my current C drive on my four year old HP computer to a new computer which I will be acquiring soon. If true, are there step by step instructions on how to do this? I currently use TIH w plus pack to "Back up" my disks, specifically my C drive. Unfortunately, while everything is on the C drive, it's a mess in terms of where stuff is stored.....

Any suggestions would be helpful. Thanks

gba

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 01:34
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TI by itself, without the plus pack options, is capable of backing up and restoring your data to a new PC. What it isn't so good at is restoring an image of your system disk to a new PC with different hardware. It isn't really TI's fault, it is because your new PC requires different hardware drivers.

The Plus pack provides Acronis Universal Restore which handles the different drivers issue. For more info, see:
http://kb.acronis.com/content/5410

However, if your new PC has Windows 7 and your old one is say XP or Vista then restoring the image with Universal restore is going to put the old OS onto the new PC and your Windows 7 will be gone. Not likely what you want to do.

Also, if you restore an image of your disk folder structure you will end up with the same mess you backed up.

If your intent is to keep the new OS and just copy your important data files into a cleaned up folder structure, I'd just do the following:

Setup the desired folders on the new PC. Copy the desired files and perhaps some folders from the old PC onto a USB drive. Copy the files from the USB drive to the new PC. You don't need a USB drive, you can network the machines, copy the files to a CD, etc. Note this can all be done with WIndows Explorer.

Hope this helps clarify the situation.

Tue, 02/16/2010 - 03:32