Acronis Rescue Media for win10 and win7
Hi - I intend to purchase True Image 2018 to protect two different windows computers - one running win10 with UEFI, the other running win7 with BIOS. Both are DELL, each under 2 years old.
I intend to keep Acronis image backups on external drives for disaster recovery, should the existing C: drives fail in the existing computers. Win7 has 500gb SSD. Win10 has 1TB SATA. If disaster strikes I just want to get things 'back the way they were' with new internal hard drives.
Regarding the Acronis bootable Rescue Media:
1) would the same rescue media (USB Stick or CD) work on these two environments - win10/UEFI, and win7 SP1 / BIOS? Or would I need two variants of the Rescue Media?
2) when boot restoring these 2 different systems, do I need to be aware of the boot mode? Or will the rescue media automatically know what to do with UEFI and BIOS?
I'm also slightly confused by one of the KB articles - it said to use WinPE vs. Unix for rescue boot... Will the unix boot work on windows systems? Again my MAIN intent is to restore the C: drive in each existing computer, should the current C: drive fail. I am not intending to migrate to different hardware at this time, but I presume the backup image would still work on a new deployment, albeit using the Universal Restore tool, vs. just the Acronis Rescue Media
Thank you


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In reply to Yes, the same bootable media… by truwrikodrorow…

HI Ian - thanks for the info and the head's up about 2019. Just curious though - I'm new to Acronis.
Do you know if the basic backup / restore functions of 2019 be 'better' or 'faster' than 2018?
Or 2019 just adds new functions that maybe enhance the user experience, but don't technically make backup/restores to external hard drive 'better'?
Thank you!
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In reply to Yes, the same bootable media… by truwrikodrorow…

HI Ian - thanks for the info and the head's up about 2019. Just curious though - I'm new to Acronis.
Do you know if the basic backup / restore functions of 2019 be 'better' or 'faster' than 2018?
Or 2019 just adds new functions that maybe enhance the user experience, but don't technically make backup/restores to external hard drive 'better'?
Thank you!
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Hello Chris,
If you have time and a spare machine (virtual machine) to install a Beta version of Acronis True Image, you're very welcome to join the Beta campaign.
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