Problems using ATI 2018 & Universal Restore
Hi Everyone
I've put together a new PC with an Asus PRIME Z370-A mobo and an 8th gen Intel Core i7-8700 3.20GHz Coffee Lake Processor. I know windows 7 needs additional drivers but I will be upgrading to win 10 straight after.
I backed up my win 7 machine and made an Acronis boot disk with True Image 2018 & Universal Restore. I read the instructions wrong and I did Universal Restore first. After a re-read, I did it in the right order. I restored partition, MBR and system reserved but when booting from the hard drive, I got a win vista progress bar then win 7 loaded. I was the asked to restart and got chkdsk errors.
In BIOS I have 3 boot devices - the main HDD, DVD and boot loader?? - not seen this before.
Going to try a restore again after work, so when restoring, what options do I pick? And even if win 7 boots or hangs, will upgrade to win 10 be OK?
Hope this makes sense
Regards
Ian


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In reply to Ian, more questions more… by truwrikodrorow…

Hi Steve
Thanks for the reply. I'll try again tonight when I get home. Both are 64 bit so if I put my old drive into the new PC then do the win 10 upgrade - I think that's doable.
regards
Ian
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Ian, if you want to do an in-place upgrade for Windows 10 then you need to be able to get to the Windows Desktop to run the upgrade setup.exe or else you will only have a choice of a new, clean install if booting from the Windows install media.
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