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Imaging from laptop with ACPI to one without (Windows 2000 ws)

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Original laptop does appear to support ACPI and it looks like an ACPI HAL is in use. Run B&R and got a backup image. (and I do have universal restore BTW)

Problem is that new laptop does not appear to support ACPI. So I restore the image and reboot and I get a STOP 0xA5 error because the BIOS does not support ACPI.

How do I get around this? Would be interested to hear what Acronis have to say on this?

One thing I may try is to change the ACPI configuration on my original PC to standard PC (i.e. non ACPI) and then re-image and try again. Trouble is microsoft do not recommend doing this but we'll see what happens. I guess I MAY have to do a repair install afterwards.

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Hello Paul,

Thank you for using [[http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/ | Acronis Corporate Products]]

If you replace the current HAL with the appropriate Non-ACPI HAL, the restored system should be bootable. Please make sure that you specify the necessary drivers manually.

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 *.inf, *.sys or *.oem extension.

In this case you will be able to replace the current HAL with a customized HAL instead of using the default one.

Thank you.