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Acronis True Image for Crucial - On what computers will that clone work?

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On my Win 10 Acer notebook, I use Acronis True Image for Crucial to clone my internal Crucial SSD to another Crucial SSD. Will that clone drive work ...
- Only on the same computer?
- Only on the exact same type of computer?
- On all PCs suitable for Win 10?
- Or???

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Malcolm, in principle the clone of your internal SSD is intended only to work with the same system where the clone was created from.

It might be possible for the cloned drive to work in a different computer if the hardware is very similar and Windows 10 can find device drivers for new hardware that is discovered when booting from the clone (installed internally), but unless that second computer is licensed & activated for the same edition of Windows 10 (i.e. Home etc) then even it it boots Ok to the desktop it will be running as not activated.

The BIOS boot mode used by the source computer will also need to match, i.e. if your Acer notebook uses UEFI / GPT then the cloned drive will not work on a Legacy / MBR boot device.

Thanks so much for that very complete answer! I'll definitely save it for reference in the event I need to use it in the future.

Although it's not really an Acronis question, I'll ask it anyway because it's what prompted my question above. If I get a new computer, whether because my current one died or just to get a "better' one, is there a way to avoid having to install, one by one, all the software that's installed on my current computer. Assume Windows 10 for both.

Malcolm, there may be some commercial applications which are capable of migrating installed applications to computer systems but I have not direct recent experience of these other than reading mixed reports of their success.

ATI cannot be used for this purpose (moving applications), so the only option would be to attempt to migrate an existing OS install, complete with applications & data to a new computer, something that Acronis Universal Restore was originally designed to do, but which has become less needed with improved hardware change handling in Windows 10.

To get such a migration to be successful, then the earlier points mentioned are important.  Matching the edition of Windows 10 to allow for successful activation on new hardware, matching the BIOS boot mode being used along with the type of internal disk drive and SATA controller mode are key factors.

Have a browse around the ATI 2020 and 2019 forums for where other users have embarked on this type of migration to new hardware with varying results!

Thanks. I too have read of varying success using the commercial tools that supposedly do this. Most reports I've seen say they don't work well. I was hoping to find here some that do work well.