Acronis TrueImage 2013 - Universal restore
Hi,
I Had a Desktop PC about 2005 and 2 weeks ago with windows XP Pro due to hardware and software compatibility, I'm working with PC and after a moment the monitor doesn't receive signal from the graphics card.
I turn it off and turn the pc ON and it works but no signal.
I leave it a day alone and next day neither monitor nor PC works.
I analyzed the components and the motherboard and CPU was damaged.
Since it was a weekend house it doesn't had backup made.
I had a laptop working with windows 7 x64.
I purchased the TrueImage 2013 with plus pack and it appears correctly installed in about information.
I tried to connect the 3,5" SATA disk into a usb adapter and made a disk backup from that disk to restore in the new pc. The new board has support from Win XP to 8 x64.
My problem is creating bootable media.
In the "Rescue media comtents selection" windows only appear "True Image" and "Acronis system report".
How could say that bootable media includes universal restore?
This technique will work in the new pc? What I need to make it bootable since it's not the system disk in bavkup environment?
With best regards,
Jose Machado
Hi,
I have the plus pack installed as shown in attachment.
If you created the bootable media (Rescue Media) with both the main program and the Plus Pack installed, the Rescue Media will contain the Plus Pack option. The Universal Restore options will be enabled on the Rescue Media, but there is no notice of this when creating it. If you registered your 2013 serial numbers, you can download the 2013 Plus Pack Rescue Media ISO from your account instead of creating it in the program. To create the Rescue Media CD/DVD from the ISO file use Windows 7 built in utility by right clicking on the ISO file and selecting "burn image".
When booting to my Rescue Media, the first Splash screen upon booting states True Image 2013 by Acronis Plus Pack.
Also if you boot to the Rescue Media, and attempt to do a disk/partition restore of an OS partition, the Universal Restore option should be available. You can check this by starting the Restore process and selecting the OS partition to restore. You should see the option to use Universal Restore. You could cancel the Restore without doing anything else other than taking a look for the UR option.
Ok.
Tomorrow I will try it.
The pc had a dual boot with the XP and windows 7.
I will try to Put XP and 8 sunce that the board is newer and support UEFI.
In this board I couldn't locate a raid or sata driver.
Before acronis I tried other backup program, EASEUS Todo backup 5.5 and I had installed internally in PC the new 500Gb sata disk, the old 200Gb sata disk with original operaring systems and the DVD burner and a external usb disk where is the image created to deploy and I could only see the external drives.
My objective was making the backup of information using rescue media to the usb and then deploy it as different hardware.
None of internal will be visible.
The board is an ASUS P8H61-M LX Release 2.0.
As I said in the last post, I tested the restore of image in the new computer using universal restore.
It was successfully completed and starts the windows well.
It doesn't installed the drivers at setup because I have put the drivers folder in external hdd but only unzipped the chipset drivers if was need to acronis rescue disk recognize internal SATA drives. It wasn't needed. The Acronis rescue media recognizes my disk.
I was very surprised with only one thing...
In last weekend I don't had the Acronis trueImage 2013 yet, but used the Acronis WD Edition (based in TrueImage 2009) that comes with a internal 2,5 in hdd to make easy transfer the actual system state to the new disk.
I used this software to try making a backup of original 3,5 in SATA disk that contains my windows installation.
I have made a backup with old 200Gb sata disk installed inside of pc in sata bus along with the new 500Gb disk and used an external 1Tb HDD to put the backup image that stays about 45Gb.
I opt for not making a sector-by-sector backup and the final backup has ~45Gb of size and gets more than 5 hours to restore in the same computer with the result.....NOT BOOTING Windows.
Since the weekend is ending and I don't have pc working I decided to buy 1 copy of TI 2013 with plus pack to get universal restore.
Since I don't have windows installation working in the new pc I installed the TI 2013 in my Win 7 Laptop and connect 3,5 in disk in usb adapter and made this time a sector-by-sector backup resulting in 125Gb since I select to not backup the empy space.
I have started the restore about 7:30pm and at 9:30pm it was ended and I boot the pc well.
This restore is quicker than the 45Gb restore why? There is many difference from TI2009 to TI2013?
The last question is that I want to keep the TI 2013 in the new pc that I restored and purchase 3 more licenses to my main household pc's.
What I need to do to free this license and install it in the new pc correctly activated?
Jose,
Just install TI 2013 onto the new PC, when it tries to activate it will tell you (or should) that you have too many activations, click on the transfer button that will pop up, this will activate your new PC and your old PC installation will become deactivated.
If you are going to purchase extra licences, you don't need to uninstall your old copy, just enter the new serial number and activate it, if you wish to continue using your old PC with TI installed.
It works good installing and reactiving in the new pc.
Now I have another doubt.
Since this pc is newer (better) than one that I have in my main household and I want to stay with this new pc and put an image from my acctual (good pc) into the new but the actual pc has a windows XP with Raid-1 configuration made by motherboard controller.
I could put this raid-1 setup with a normal non-raid setup using universal restore.
I have made the backup image on external disk.