Bootable media and operating systems
I've long wondered if the bootable media version has anything to do with the operating system from which a disk backup is created or the existing operating system on a machine to which a disk backup is restored.
I'm pretty sure that the existing operating system on a machine to which a disk backup is restored doesn't matter, since existing partitions are deleted before those from the backup are restored.
I'm also somewhat sure that the operating system from which a disk backup is created doesn't matter, since the bootable media seems to work at the file system level and can do sector-to-sectore restoration.
Could anyone confirm my assumptions? If my assumptions are right, we can use, say a very old version like 2010 of bootable media to back up a very new operation system like Windows 10 and restore any backup to a computer currently running Windows 10, although Acronis True Image 2010 doesn't run on Windows 10.


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