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Universal Restore - Need clarification on what boot media to use

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I will be restoring a system image to a new pc.  What is not clear to me after reading all the docs and forum entries is what Acronis bootable media to use.  I have created the simple bootable and the universal restore bootable.  Can I use the universal restore media to restore the image or do I have use the simple media, the reload the UR?  If that is the case, what is the ultimate purpose of the UR media?  Thanks for any advice and clarification.

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Buffalo Guy, the simplified process in outline should be as follows:

  1. Make a full disk & partitions backup of your old computer OS drive.
  2. Boot from the main Acronis Rescue Media on the new computer.
  3. Restore the disk & partitions backup to the new computer.
  4. Shutdown, remove the Rescue media and disconnect the backup drive.
  5. If the OS is Windows 10, try starting into Windows 'as is'.
  6. If Windows gives errors for missing drivers etc, then shutdown.
  7. Boot the new computer from the Acronis Universal Restore media
  8. Apply universal restore to the restored Windows OS, including providing any additional device drivers that may be required.  Note: these would normally only be drivers for the motherboard chipset and disk controller.  Other drivers should be handled by Windows.
  9. Shutdown, remove the AUR media, and boot into Windows.
  10. If needed repeat steps 6 to 9.

With Windows 10, there is much better support for more hardware and AUR is not always needed as it was with earlier versions of the OS.

If you are migrating your Windows OS from a Legacy / MBR system to a new UEFI / GPT one, then the BIOS boot mode for the Acronis Rescue Media will migrate the restored OS from MBR to GPT when the media is booted in UEFI mode.  If you want to stay with Legacy & MBR, then your new computer needs to support Legacy/CSM in the BIOS to allow this, and the rescue media needs to be booted in Legacy mode to prevent conversion to GPT.

The disk controller mode of the old and new computer may also need to be addressed if these are significantly different, i.e. coming from SATA AHCI mode to either RAID or to NVMe M.2 PCIe drive.