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Performing a universal restore of a 32-bit OS to 64-bit hardware

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We currently use the latest build of Acronis Echo Server & Universal Restore. Currently, we have a Windows 2003 R2 Standard 32-bit OS on an HP Proliant DL380 G4 machine. This box is a domain controller.
We would like to take an image of this machine and restore this to an HP Proliant DL 380 G6 server which is a 64-bit machiner. Granted we would follow your document on restoring a domain controller to dissimilar hardware.

Question
Can you restore a Windows 2003 R2 standard 32-bit OS that is running on 32-bit hardware to a 64-bit hardware machine? If so, how would this impact performance and reliability? I'm thinking that this process will work and that we wouldn't be utiliziing the 64-bit server's capabilities, therefore performance should not be an issue.

thoughts?

Thanks
Jamie

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Hello Jamie Rosen,

Thank you very much for your post. I would like to apologize for the delay but I will definitely assist you.

You can restore a 32-bit OS image to a 64-bit hardware machine. However, all the benefits associated with 64-bit processor will be gone. I am sure that there will be no performance and reliability issues.

I would also like to suggest the following articles from our Knowledge Base that will help you with migration to dissimilar hardware.

1. Transferring Windows to Dissimilar Hardware

2. Migrating Active Directory with Domain Controller to Dissimilar Hardware using Acronis Universal Restore

3. Removing Unused Drivers after Restoring System with Acronis Universal Restore

Please let me know if you have any other questions, thank you.