Universal Restore doesn't find OS
Hello,
for hours I try to migrate from old PC to new one. Horrible.
When I boot into UR (32bit) the recovered partion is not detected.
I recovered only the partion WITHOUT MBR and track 0.
The source PC has two drives with several partitions.
In the first step I only tried to recover drive C:.
Regards
Yes, please do a full disk image vs a partition. You need the MBR (Updated change - sorry, MBR was not correct) Sytem ReservedPartition for your OS to be bootable. Once pushed to the new system that way, then see if UR can generalize the build (at least find the OS). You can always delete the old "recovery" partition directly through windows computer management and expand the free space later if you can actually get the image transferred to the new computer and actually booted into Windows.
I understand the logic of wanting to push a complete OLD computer image to a new computer as well - keeps everything the way you know it, all applications installed and all user data in the same way. However, it also keeps old "bad files and data" and adds to additional issues down the road - especially if/when upgrading that same system to a new OS.
What was the OS that came with your new PC - something newer than the old one (or the same)? If the new computer has a newer OS or if one is 32bit and the other 64bit, I don't recommend pushing the old image to the new one. You can, but you lose benefits of the newer OS, and will most likely end up with Windows licensing issues that you'll have to sort out by calling Microsoft because it will detect a major change in hardware if/when it boots up. Generic pre-built machineds (Dell, HP, etc), use OEM licenses which are tied to that particular system and not transferable to another computer - even if you have 2 OEM licenses, each one is only valid on the original computer.
Also, new computers may not support your older systems image. For instance, older computers typically boot in Legacy/CSM bios mode. Newer computer may only have support for the newer UEFI BIOS and and not have CSM/legacy bios mode. Some newer computers do support both, but you usually have to go into the BIOS and enable CSM Legacy Mode or switch from UEFI to CSM/Legacy - depends on the BIOS itself and each BIOS varies. Newer computers with UEFI also may have "secure boot" turned on by default. If so, in order to push your image, assuming everything else is configured correctly, you may have to disable "secure boot" too.
Acronis does what it's supposed to as far as backing up and imaging your computer and providing an option to universally restore it to another one, but only after all of the other BIOS and background issues are configured correctly from the user's end.