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Best starting format for Restore to new PC

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Hello,
Sorry for the noob question here.
I would rather start off on the right foot than spend the extra hours with trial and error.

I'm upgrading my Win7 PC to a new PC with different mother board.
I bought the full version of TI16.

I created a full clone of my original HDD and it boots up fine on the old PC.
Should I use this cloned Drive to put into the new PC with the Universal Restore software or should I use a different starting file.  Like a full back up of files to another clean drive and not the cloned disc image?

Thank you,
Jay

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Jay, welcome to these user forums.

Please can you clarify your initial statement about upgrading to a new PC with a different motherboard?

Is the new PC being supplied with an installed OS, or are you building the new PC and installing the motherboard yourself?

Is your Windows 7 PC running on 32-bit or 64-bit?
I would assume that your new PC / motherboard will be fully capable of running Windows 64-bit OS.

What boot method does your current Win 7 PC use, i.e. is this a legacy BIOS / MBR system?

What boot methods does your new motherboard / PC support - most modern systems will use UEFI / GPT but may allow the use of Legacy / MBR.

If your new PC comes ready installed with Windows 10 64-bit OS, then you may prefer to just migrate all your user data to the new system rather than downgrading it to run Windows 7.

Please see KB document: 19296: Acronis Products Cannot Be Used to Transfer Applications to Different System or Upgrade OS  which will give you some further guidance, in particular with regard to what you are asking:

You can create a disk/partition backup and restore it to a different machine to transfer the entire existing system to new hardware (you may need Acronis True Image Premium or Acronis Universal Restore if you plan to transfer the system to dissimilar hardware).

See:

  1. Acronis True Image 2016: Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware with Acronis Universal Restore

Hi Steve,
Thanks for the response.

I am putting together a new pc.  I have an extra case, and installed a new MB / Intel Chipset, faster CPU, more memory, bigger HDD, etc..
It's a Win 32 OS.

I have not upgraded to Win10 yet because some of our accounting software will not run on 10.  So until we upgrade our software..  I am upgrading my hardware to a faster computer.

The Chipset is nearly identical to the old MB but a simple restore will not let the OS fully boot into windows. So i am trying Universal Restore in a few minutes.

Aanndd done.  Worked great with the full clone.

The Universal Restore installed a couple of the drivers enough for it to boot into Windows.
It's now going through the MB driver install from the installation disk.

That was a lot faster than I expected.  Booted within a couple of minutes of installing the Acronis Boot Disk.

Thanks for the help!
Jay

Jay, glad to hear that all is going so well.