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Acronis Universal Restore Disimilar Hardware Problems

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Heres the issue; moving an acronis system image, from one hardware config to totally different one..

Did the run down... bootable disk, saved the img on a wd passport..etc..

Everything went smooth as far as the recovery no error messages no blue screen... only issue is the windows orb logo spinning thing stops halfway thru and than it keeps restarting..

one thing i didnt do is add drivers to the wd passport acronis save..

what drivers would i have to add what are the most important ones so windows doesnt keep looping...

im assuming motherboard, cpu etc...

anything else...and is there an easy way to save these in a folder or usb stick and throw them in the acronis load drivers thing... how do i find out what all is needed for the drivers..

sorry for grammar feel free to fix in a rush

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With 2016 you have to run 2 "passes"
- the first pass is a normal restore of the image of computer A onto computer B. Do this using the recovery medium
- the second pass is booting again, this time on the universal restore recovery medium, to inject the drivers onto the image, YOu need the chipset drivers and any other disk controller your motherboard might have. The drivers need to be in their .inf and .sys format (ie uncompressed).
- only then you can try to reboot on the restored disk.

Pat L wrote:

With 2016 you have to run 2 "passes"
- the first pass is a normal restore of the image of computer A onto computer B. Do this using the recovery medium
- the second pass is booting again, this time on the universal restore recovery medium, to inject the drivers onto the image, YOu need the chipset drivers and any other disk controller your motherboard might have. The drivers need to be in their .inf and .sys format (ie uncompressed).
- only then you can try to reboot on the restored disk.

Pat, as often as I read the documentation I am left uncertain about that second pass.

If I have the chipset and disk controller drivers on, for example, a CD or thumb drive, can that be accessed by the universal restore recovery program?

The most likely scenario, for me, would be that

  1. My existing system has fallen over dead and can't be used (hardware failure).
  2. I would hustle down to the nearest big box store and buy a new machine. (I have work to get done, so I can't be off the air for long.)
  3. The new machine would undoubtedly come with Windows installed on it.
  4. I'd be able to download the drivers, etc., from the manufacturer's website "somehow" and put them on a removable medium (CD, thumb drive, whatever).
  5. The old system would have been running the same version of Windows as the new one.
  6. I would have a current full backup of my old machine.

My goal would be to get the new system to be a clone of my old system, as nearly as possible, as quickly as possible. (I realize that I would lose any bloatware, as well as any potentially useful stuff, that came with the new machine; but let's assume that I don't need a 17th photo editor.)

Would universal restore be able to do this? Or is it only suitable for a truly bare metal, driver disk in the box, machine?

I really miss the days when I built my systems from scratch.

Yes, Universal Restore (UR) would allow you to recover the image of computer A onto computer B. If A had the same OS as B, you are lucky because it suffices to copy the Windows/System32/Drivers folder of computer B to a flash drive to perform the UR. Precisely, you need to have the drivers on some medium (typically a flash drive) accessisble by the UR medium.