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Disk image to new hardware---will it work

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I have a 4 year old computer. i have windows xp set up just right.

If i make a disk image, then move it to new hardware, is it possible it wont work becuase of driver issues?

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Hello Acronis9843,

Let me help you and shed some light on your concerns.

You can restore your old image to a new machine with a dissimilar hardware by the means of Acronis True Image Home 2010 and Acronis Plus Pack. Please note that Acronis Plus Pack is a separately purchased add-on that can be installed over Acronis True Image Home 2010

Acronis Plus Pack includes a special Universal Restore module that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and install mass storage boot device drivers into the system.

It installs boot device drivers (e.g. hard drive or RAID controller drivers) into the system during the recovery process, so that the operating system can boot from this boot device. If there are proper NIC drivers present in the folder with the drivers, Acronis Universal Restore will copy them into the restored system and will schedule their installation on Windows boot-up.

I may suggest you to have a look at this KB article to have the detailed guide on how to restore to a different hardware (new PC) with Acronis True Image and Acronis Plus Pack.

Please reply to this thread if you have any additional questions.

Thank you.

Acronis9843 wrote:

I have a 4 year old computer. i have windows xp set up just right.

If i make a disk image, then move it to new hardware, is it possible it wont work becuase of driver issues?

That is true. But there were a couple of workarounds you can try which will not cost you.
1. Change the display adapter to Generic VGA then make the Image ... or ..
2. Use Microsoft's Sysprep on the old computer before making the Image.

I have done the first one but not the second. In the first method, after you restore to the new system and boot for the first time, there will be a slew of "Found New Hardware" popups. Let it finish this. Afterwards, go into Device Manager and manually install the correct display adapter if it wasn't installed automatically.

I am new to this.I just installed accronis true image home 2010 in my laptop with vista os.I am trying to image evry thing (operating system and applications and files )on an external hard drive which is 1.5 TB.my laptop is only 500 GB.when I try to do this using clone disk feature of accronis,after going through all steps,a box pops up and says:"Failed to move the selected data.make sure your new hard drive is not smaller than your old one and your partitions do not contain errors.you can check for errors and correct them using a special utility."I have already formated new drive and scaned for errors using tools in my computer and found nothing.I have quick books in my laptop with important files and can not afford to loose them.can anyone help me out?
Thank you in advace

Hashem Hashemi wrote:
I am new to this.I just installed accronis true image home 2010 in my laptop with vista os.I am trying to image evry thing (operating system and applications and files )on an external hard drive which is 1.5 TB.my laptop is only 500 GB.when I try to do this using clone disk feature of accronis,after going through all steps,a box pops up and says:"Failed to move the selected data.make sure your new hard drive is not smaller than your old one and your partitions do not contain errors.you can check for errors and correct them using a special utility."I have already formated new drive and scaned for errors using tools in my computer and found nothing.I have quick books in my laptop with important files and can not afford to loose them.can anyone help me out?
Thank you in advace

Hashem

You would be better off starting a new topic with your problem and not posting on the end of someone elses, people might not see your question.

Pete