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Can Not Restore to Dissimilar Hardware Anymore !

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Dear Sir/Lady

It do not work to use Acronis to move Win7 to dissimlar hardware (Intel Z170) anymore, but this Acronis Boot CD worked on older hardware to migrate to (Intel H86).

Software: Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack (Boot CD)

Old Hardware: Intel H86, Core i5 2500S, Samsung 850 SSD & 2TB Harddisk, Win7
New Hardware: Intel Z170, Core i5 6600K, Samsung 850 SSD & 2TB Harddisk, Win7

The problem is that it always stops at: "Reading all physical volumes. This may take a while"

Well it does not take a while, it take hours.

(I have tested install clean install from Win7 DVD and it works nice, just to check if it was hardware fault somewhere, but new hardware is OK)

Question

1. Is this Intel Z170 so new it do not work with Acronis 2011 ?

2. Is it possible to use newer Acronis as 2015/2016 on older image file *.tib made with Acronis 2011 and migrate to new dissimilar hardware ?

Best regards

 

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Lasses, welcome to these user forums.

I suspect that the main issue that you have here is with your Samsung 850 SSD, especially if these are NVMe / M.2 drives which are only supported in the latest ATIH 2016 or 2017 True Image products, not in your ATIH 2011 product.

If you are making your backups of your older hardware from within Windows then this will be using the device drivers integrated into the Windows OS - I would suggest testing your ATIH 2011 Boot CD on the older hardware too to see if sees the disk drive or not?

Quick clarification about the 850 EVO...M.2 is strictly a form factor - it (m.2) can be SATA or NVME PCIE.  The 850 EVO is strictly a SATA hard drive, but could be standard 2.5" SATA, an m.2 SATA, or an mSATA form factor, but it doesn't matter for driver support - SATA is SATA, regardless of the form factor.  All 3 form factors for the 850 EVO as a respresentation from a Newegg post: 

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16820147398

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1. Is this Intel Z170 so new it do not work with Acronis 2011 ?

Most likely.  If your new board is UEFI and your OS is UEFI, acronis 2011 can't handle it - UEFI was not around when 2011 came out.  If you can configure your board for CSM/legacy and have legacy OS install, then it should probably work. 

The other gotcha is whatever drivers were available in 2011 default Linux media are old.  If your new board has special controller drivers (some boards have an extra SATA controller on a riser that is in addition to the onboard SATA controller), 2011 may not handle it - also likely not. 

The 850 EVO is a standard SATA solid state drive which 2011 can handle.  HOWEVER... if it is formatted as GPT, this was also not around when 2011 came out.  You would need to ensure that all disks are formatted as MBR/Legacy (which can be done for an EVO SSD)

2. Is it possible to use newer Acronis as 2015/2016 on older image file *.tib made with Acronis 2011 and migrate to new dissimilar hardware?

No, there was a big jump at 2015.  Last version to support 2011 was 2015, but you're not likely to find it available now since it's reached the end of its 2 year support lifecycle. You might be able to find a box version sitting on a shelf somewhere, but 

1689: Backup archive compatibility across different product versions

Acronis True Image 2016, Acronis True Image Cloud (Release 2016) 
on Windows

backups of Windows computers created with: 
Acronis True Image 2016, Acronis True Image Cloud (Release 2016) 
Acronis True Image 2015 
Acronis True Image 2014 
True Image 2013 by Acronis

Acronis True Image 2015 Acronis True Image 2015 (except for Acronis True Image 2015 for Mac 
and Acronis True Image for Mac) 
Acronis True Image 2014 
True Image 2013 by Acronis 
Acronis True Image Home 2012* 
Acronis True Image Home 2011*
Acronis True Image Home 2010* 
Acronis True Image Home 2009*
Acronis True Image Home 11* 
Acronis True Image 2014 Acronis True Image 2014 
True Image 2013 by Acronis 
Acronis True Image Home 2012* 
Acronis True Image Home 2011*
Acronis True Image Home 2010* 
Acronis True Image Home 2009*
Acronis True Image Home 11* 

 

Thanks for be welcome and thanks for your answers

My Asus Z170m-Plus motherboard seems to have UEFI.

This UEFI seems to be a complicate thing, since it was not created with Win7 "in mind"

So I have to read more about compability first, since UEFI seems to have a compability setting for older OS that can be enabled

Maybee UEFI make it impossible to migrate from older motherboard to newer Z170

Best regards

UEFI is supported in Win 7.  It really depends on how the original OS was installed though.  IF it was a legacy/MBR install and you want to mighrate to another machine, ideally, you'd want to keep it the same to simply things.  That might mean needing to enable CSM\legacy mode in the new system and ensure you are booting the Acronis rescue media in legacy mode to do the restore so it retains the MBR/legacy mode in the process.

UEFI does complicate things a bit more - mostly because of the bios settings and features which take some manual user interaction.  

If you take a brand new hard disk and go to install Windows clean, you'll find the same issues...

1) If your new disk is formatted MBR and you boot the Windows installer in UEFI mode it will say no disks available because it will want a GPT disk.  You'd have to go back and boot the Windows installer in legacy mode, or first format the disk as GPT.

2) If your new disk is formatted as GPT and you boot Windows installer in legacy mode, it will say no disks available because it will want an MBR disk.  You'd have to go back and boot the Windows installer in UEFI mode, or first format the disk as MBR.

However, not all bios firmware is on the same level either.  Some new computers are UEFI only - no legacy mode supported at all.  Some allow you go enable CSM\legacy mode but have to be configued with other configruations as well.  Some also require that safeboot in the bios is disabled to activate csm\legacy mode (for it to work correctly).

Things get complicated more when you are also changing hardware (motherboards) because of driver incompatibility across systems, needing to get the SATA mode the same on both systems, and the CSM\UEFI issues.  Acronis will actually let you convert a legacy/CSM OS to UEFI/GPT, but you still have to figure out the bios settings first and then deal with the driver differenes (needing to use Universal REstore) even after deploying the image.  It is all very do-able, but much more work than it used to be if you're going from CSM/legacy to UEFI/GPT.