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Createing a partitions on new PC (unused HD)

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Hello Sirs,

I would to recover my windows backup file, which i create by acronis, on new PC where never was installed system, only freedos is installed, no partitions such MBR 100 for W7 and 350 MBR W8.1,  how to create that by Acronis ? i have created USB flash drive of Acronis media builder.

 

Please help me. Thanks in advanced.

 

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Well, Windows licensing may be an issue if your original Windows backup image was from an OEM version of Windows.  You'll have to work that out with Microsoft if you are able to successfully push the image to the new machine though.

You'll need to make Acronis offline bootable media (you can download a generic copy from your account download page if you dont' have a working version of Windows currently)

Boot to the reocoverable media and do a restore.  You want to select your existing backup file (assuming you backed up the entire disk previously) and push it to the new system.  

Once the image is pushed, it's not likley to boot though due to hardware differences.  You'll then want to download and create an offline bootable UNIVERSAL RESTORE disk.  Boot to that and it can generalize the existing image for new hardware.  Depending on the hardware of the new system, this will usually work, but if you have special storage controllers or other specialized hardware, you may have to use UNIVERSAL RESTORE to slip in the new system drivers.

In most cases, that will get Windows booting, but you'll still have to go through computer management and install drivers specific to the new system to get everythign working correctly.

Unfortunately though, you may still have other issues depending upon the type of orignal image taken and your new hardware.  For insance, if the old image was made with Legacy (CSM) bios build, but the new system is only UEFI, that may cause more trouble.  Generally, you want to push a legacy/CSM bios image to a machine that supports legacy/CSM mode or a UEFI backup to a system that supports UEFI bios.  In some cases machines are capable of either, but you usually have to set the mode in the BIOS as it will be one or the other if it can support both.  

Best of luck to you!

FYI - here is the Acronis tutorial for recovering to dissimilar hardware - should come in handy.

https://kb.acronis.com/content/56637