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True Image Home 2010 Plus Pack Restore to or to a virtual machine

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The Plus Pack documentation specifically says that Universal restore can be used to restore to virtual machine. I cannot find any reference to this in the application - please can you direct me.

Plus pack specifications:
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/plus-pack.html
"Restore to Dissimilar Hardware Restore a computer to dissimilar hardware regardless of make, model, or installed components, or to a virtual machine."

I have read article 5410, which again makes the same claim "Real-to-virtual and virtual-to-real computer migration for system recovery" but only provides information on restoring to a real partition.

I need to complete a real to virtual restore on dissimilar hardware which is why I have bought TIH and plus pack.

many thanks in advance

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Hello Olly Evans,

Thank you for posting. I will certainly assist you.

The best way to restore your virtual machine would be to treat it as a physical machine. Simply create an Acronis bootable CD with the Acronis Universal Restore component. Boot your virtual machine from that CD and start the recovery process. You will be prompted to provide the necessary drivers, please specify the correct ones for your virtual machine.

You need to have drivers for the hard disk drive controller or chipset drivers for the new computer. These drivers are critical for booting the operating system. You can download the drivers for your motherboard on the Vendor's web-site. Please note, if you downloaded the drivers in *.exe, *.cab, *.zip format, you should extract them first. The driver files should have the *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extensions.

You can check step-by-step instructions from this article.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

I don't think you answered correctly. Like this person, I want to back up my physical machine to a virtual machine file that I can run on another computer. The ad that led me to buy the Plus Pack said it could do this.