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Retore from HD to (bigger) SSD do't work

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We have bought a Acrons True Image 2016 licence for 3 machines and want to migrate an older HP machine with a 512 GB HD SATA disk to a new HP machine with a SSD (512 GB) and and a SATA disc (1 TB).

On the new machine, Windows 7 is installed.

We have installed True Image on the old machine and done a backup and also created a bootable USB-Stick with True Image and Universal Restore.
The data on the older machine with Windows 10 are stored on one physical disc with partitions (system, hidden system, recovery and data)
As the data-partition (256 GB) on the old machine does not contain data we have not saved it to the image.
In fact we want to migrate 256 GB data from a SATA HD to a 512 GB SSD...

On the new machine, we can boot the machine with the USB Stick, select and load the saved image from (another) USB-Disk attached to the new machine.

But we are not able to assign the partitions from the image of the old machine to the SSD on the new machine.
As soon as we heave assigned the hidden system partition to the SSD (with the correct size of about 350 MB), we are not able to assign also the partition with the C:-Drive (OS) (the "empty/free" partition ist greyed ot and no selectable) .

We have wasted over a full day now and tried everithing in our minds.

So... how to migrate this thing (I really hope it's possible, else Acronis is absolute useless for us)

Thanks for a fast feedback

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Fredy, welcome to these user forums.

In order for this migration of the old HP machine Windows OS to succeed, you need to be able to boot both systems in the same boot method, i.e. both machine using either Legacy / MBR BIOS or both using UEFI for the boot method.  Plus the Acronis Rescue Media on USB stick booted in the same boot method too.  This is important to avoid Acronis converting the partitioning scheme on restore, i.e. converting the disk from MBR to GPT.

The disk controller type used for both systems should also be the same, i.e. if the old HP uses AHCI, the new one should use the same.

The simplest method of proceeding here would be to restore the old HP backup 'as is' without any changes to partition sizing or layout, then make any changes to partitions after you have the new HP system up and running with the restored OS.

The alternative method is to use a partition manager tool, i.e. Acronis Disk Director, or one of the free third-party partition tools from such as Easeus, or AOMEI, Mini-Tool etc and create all the desired partions on the target SSD before then restoring those partitions one by one from the backup file.

ATIH is not the greatest tool to use for changing partition layout or sizes, hence the suggestion above.

Hi Steve

Thanks for your feedback.
As you have answered me and to (hopefully) help other users (like me), I took the time to write this posting (I'm very disapointed from Acronis)
Fortunately we were able to migrate the machine (at late night yesterday) before I have seen your posting here.

We were short before abandom Acronis and change to another product...

Principally like your wrote:
- Overtake the whole image, not assign the partitions (only way that has worked)
- Boot new machine
- Windows has installed the absolute base drivers itself
- The driver to the network card (and also the graphic card) was not installed (so, we first don't had access to the LAN / Internet)
=> Universal Restore has not worked, as - after boot with the USB stick - Universal Restore has not detected the installed OS (Win 10):
    Note: We were able to boot from Win 10 before and wanted to add the missing drivers witj Unversal Restore...

- We then have installed the missing driver from windows ("update driver" to the device in the control panel -> load from the driver DVD to the device)
- After doing that, we have changed the partitions directly in windows (as the new SSD-Drive (fortunately!) was bigger the the old used space,
  we had a lot of unused space on the SSD (and also not needed data) and had to activate the space and add it to the C:-partition.

Then, we had (expected) problems with the MS Licence-Keys:
- After first boot Office (Outlook / Word and so on) has noted, that the HW was changed, but we were able to reactivate it with a mouseclick 
  (activate without any licence-infomatione)
- Today, also Windows itself has give out a message, that it has no valid Licence
=> To activate Windows, you have to put in a valid key (xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxx) and this is not the shown licences key to the old windows 
      version
=> Fortunately, we have MSDN, where I was able to create an new activation key

With the new key, we were able to activate windows and now, it seems that everything works as before...

Why am I disapointed of from Acronis...?
- Incredible bad web-pages and processes!:

  - (Fortunaltely) we have an account since years (for older versions)
     - To be able to contact Acronis or post a message here, the customer has to have an account and log in first and set various data (version, and so on)
        whereby the correct product was not selectable (I had to select a completely wrong product)
- I was not able yet to register our new licence (have wasted over a full hour alone for that) 
  - Very confusing and unhandy (not to undestand) process and naming for the registration (license key, activation key, ...)
=> This is true for years now (I had the same problems some years ago - nothing has changed here)
 - Acronis applies Acronis True Image as easy to use product, with that everybody can backup and restored every device to every other device
    easely.. 
-> This is simply not true:
   - Very unlogic functions / confusing interface
   - Exactly the most important information's are not described (and the customer has to search and try-and-error himself)
   => Today, an new device mostly will have an SSD
   => Every user will have the problems with the MS (and maybe other) licences -> no information
=> Universal Restore (that we had to download an unstall first in addition) was absolute useless for us... 

This is a pity as the core of Acronis (and also the forum-support, once the customer was able to connect) seems to be good...

   

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fredy, thank you for your comprehensive update / feedback.  I am glad to hear that you have managed to do the migration to the new system, albeit not without encountering some issues along the way.

I would encourage you to submit feedback to Acronis with your concerns over the ease of access to Support, the usability of the product etc, as this is a user forum and I cannot guarantee that any of the right people at Acronis will actually see or read your feedback.  All of the MVP's are just users, the same as yourself, we do not work for Acronis and have no direct method of passing on your feedback other than in the forums.

You can use the Feedback tool in the ATIH GUI (in the Help pages) or else click on the Submit Feedback at the top of the forum pages.