Universal Restore vs rescue media builder
OK time for a dumb user questions. I was just getting ready to create an ATI USB recovery bootable option and started reading various articles in the Acronis KB area, namely those regarding AUR. Thus the question, what the heck should I do if I want to take the bridge to the best of the worlds.
- It seems that the rescue media builder is a great option for recovering to the same PC
- If I need to recover to different hardware then the AUR would be required. Can AUR recover to the same hardware? I would suspect yes and if so why do I need the Rescue Media Builder option?
I have multiple licenses for ATI 2018 and I'm attempting to setup my son's laptop with ATI, he is located about 5-6 hours from me. For most of the effort, I can do this remotely but will need to rely on him for some of the setup or wait until we visit. He is very bright but when it comes to computers God shortchanged him in this part of his brain, thus we need everything to be simple as possible.
For now, I don't see him changing hardware for a few years but sometimes life throws us a curve and we are forced to go down a new unexpected path, thus I'm leaning toward worst-case situations for recovery.
The backup has been created and tested using two rotating external 4TB USB drives. By tested, I mean that I can see the backups are running and ATI reports success. I'm about to start the recovery setup.
I could, of course, create two bootable USB thumb drives one with each option. :)


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Personally I would recommend only creating the Rescue Media and leaving the Universal Restore media until such time that you have a requirement to migrate to a new / different computer hardware.
Thanks, Steve, this will work for me.
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Hey Steve what would I use if I had to replace my motherboard because the system wasn't booting and troubleshooting determined that the motherboard was faulty?
or in other words
Is Universal Restore only nessescary when upgrading/replacing the motherboard?
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Also is a Universal Restore UBS key something that can be created on any computer and then used with any computer at any time in the future if a hardware upgrade on any given computer made that computer un-bootable?
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Ryan Scott wrote:Hey Steve what would I use if I had to replace my motherboard because the system wasn't booting and troubleshooting determined that the motherboard was faulty?
or in other words
Is Universal Restore only necessary when upgrading/replacing the motherboard?
Also is a Universal Restore UBS key something that can be created on any computer and then used with any computer at any time in the future if a hardware upgrade on any given computer made that computer un-bootable?
Ryan, in principle, AUR is designed for the scenario where your hardware changes, i.e. the motherboard is replaced, but in practice, you may not need to use AUR in such scenarios providing you are running Windows 10 as your OS. Earlier versions of Windows are more likely to need to use AUR as this is used to prepare the recovered OS on the new hardware to manage the changes that are encountered, but Windows 10 is improved in this area and can often cope with such changes without using AUR.
You should be able to create an AUR disc or USB key from any computer as this is not dependent on the host hardware or OS.
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Hi Steve, based on your comments above regarding win 10, that means if I want to upgrade to a new computer all I have to do is remove the C drive from my old ( win 10) computer and insert it into the new computer running win 10 and it should run without any problems . Am I correct in assuming this.
Regards
Peter Sullivan
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Peter Sullivan wrote:Hi Steve, Thanks for you informative comments above. Based on your comments regarding win 10, that means if I want to upgrade to a new computer all I have to do is remove the C drive from my old ( win 10) computer and insert it into the new computer running win 10 and it should run without any problems . Am I correct in assuming this.
Regards
Peter Sullivan
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Peter Sullivan wrote:Peter Sullivan wrote:Hi Steve, Thanks for your informative comments above. Based on your comments regarding win 10, that means if I want to upgrade to a new computer all I have to do is remove the C drive from my old ( win 10) computer and insert it into the new computer running win 10 and it should run without any problems . Am I correct in assuming this.
Regards
Peter Sullivan
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Peter Sullivan wrote:Peter Sullivan wrote:Peter Sullivan wrote:Hi Steve, Thanks for your informative comments above. Based on your comments regarding win 10, that means if I want to upgrade to a new computer, but I want to retain all my programs and applications, all I have to do is remove the C drive from my old ( win 10) computer and insert it into the new computer and it should run without any problems . Am I correct in assuming this.
Regards
Peter Sullivan
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Peter Sullivan wrote:Hi Steve, based on your comments above regarding win 10, that means if I want to upgrade to a new computer all I have to do is remove the C drive from my old ( win 10) computer and insert it into the new computer running win 10 and it should run without any problems . Am I correct in assuming this.
Regards
Peter Sullivan
Peter, unfortunately it is not quite as simple as just moving your OS C: drive to a new computer as other factors will come into play.
Windows 10 activation is based on hardware signatures where it is installed then activated along with the edition involved, i.e. both computers would need to have already been activated for the same edition of Windows 10 such as Home.
How the OS boots from BIOS will also need to be the same, i.e. both systems boot using UEFI (with or without Secure Boot).
The recommended method of migration for this scenario would still be to make a full Disk backup of the old Win10 computer, then restore that backup to the new Win 10 computer, rather than physically moving a disk drive from one to the other.
Windows will attempt to find and install device drivers for new hardware discovered during the boot process of the restored computer OS.
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From what I have seen elsewhere, if your PC is running with a license you bought for Windows 7-10 (not a license that came WITH the PC), then you can just move the physical drive to the new machine, since you own a license that is PC neutral. The license that comes WITH a machine is tied to that motherboard, RAM and drive config, BUT, as many folks have pointed out elsewhere, ***SOMETIMES*** you can CALL MS and explain the circumstances (and proof that you have moved the drive to the new PC), then they MIGHT let you re-license the O/S. This *usually* occurs when your original mobo dies. IF I have made an error here, please correct me.
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Steve,
Seen you on the Forum over the years, and you seem to be the man. I just picked a random comment of yours to reply to. I've been trying to post a new topic in the Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office Forum all evening, and every time I go to save the post it kicks back an error saying "The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later". It seems I can reply to posts, though. Any idea when it might be operational again?
Thanks,
David
Steve Smith wrote:Ryan Scott wrote:Hey Steve what would I use if I had to replace my motherboard because the system wasn't booting and troubleshooting determined that the motherboard was faulty?
or in other words
Is Universal Restore only necessary when upgrading/replacing the motherboard?
Also is a Universal Restore UBS key something that can be created on any computer and then used with any computer at any time in the future if a hardware upgrade on any given computer made that computer un-bootable?
Ryan, in principle, AUR is designed for the scenario where your hardware changes, i.e. the motherboard is replaced, but in practice, you may not need to use AUR in such scenarios providing you are running Windows 10 as your OS. Earlier versions of Windows are more likely to need to use AUR as this is used to prepare the recovered OS on the new hardware to manage the changes that are encountered, but Windows 10 is improved in this area and can often cope with such changes without using AUR.
You should be able to create an AUR disc or USB key from any computer as this is not dependent on the host hardware or OS.
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