Install Win7.iso to bare drive from USB Bootable media
I have a new PC which has no operating system on its hard drive.
I made a USB bootable media drive from Acronis True Image 2016 which boots up fine. It's running now on my the new machine.
I have the Windows iso installation file on the same USB drive as True Image 2016
I am in the Acronis program. What do I do now. In other words,
How can I install Windows 7? I don't know how to access the installation disk image.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.


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Ditto to Steve. Sean, you need to burn you Windows install image to a CD or DVD or USB flash drive in advance and boot that to install Windows from scratch.
If you intend to use Acronis to restore an OS that was already installed, you need to first take an image with Acronis of the source computer and save it somewhere accessible (like an external hard drive). Then, you boot with the Acronis bootable recvoery media, select restore, navigate to the image you created, pick it, and select your destination disk to recover the image to. If it is the exact same hardware, there's nothing else to do, it will restore to the exact point in time as the image was taken.
If you are restoring an image to new hardware, you may then have to run Universal Restore to generalize the drivers so the image can boot without a BSOD. Moving to new hardware also requires that you first setup the bios correctly such as disabling secure boot, setting the SATA mode to be the same as the original disk, ensuring it supports the OS type (for instance if the old system was installed in legacy mode, but the new system only supports UEFI mode, then this is a dealbreaker... most new computers support both, but may have to have settings configured in the bios to allow this).
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