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Problem:

System 1: Windows 7 home premium 64 bit.
Problems: 1) Will only start in safe mode 2) Cannot load Acronis onto it 3) Do not have backup or system image created by Acronis. Cannot run sysprep. I have tried the delwpa.bat "trick" with no success.

System 2: Windows 7 home premium with Acronis TI2016 installed. 
Problem: Cannot move the hard drive from system 1 over and have it load.  I have tried to recover with Acronis System Restore but the installation of Windows AKI is not obvious to me. The xcopy or ecopy of the ISO did not work. 

Are there step by step solutions? Where can I find them? 

Thank you very much. This is beyond frustrating. 

Update:

I have been able to make a back up of the disk of Sytem 1 (which opens in safe mode) using Kaspersky which was instaleld on System 1. 

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Usually Win 7 being able to boot is safe mode but not otherwise is the result of something like a failed driver or a change in the machine bios such as storage mode from ACHI to RAID or vice versa for exapmle.  In safe mode you should have a look in Device Manager and determine if anything there is not functioning which would show an exclamation mark.  If you find something there you might try uninstalling it then attempt to boot Windows normally again and see if Windows can then discover the device and load default generic drivers for it.  If that is successful then you could install curent drivers for the device.

System 1:  Take an offline image with your bootable recovery media - make sure it's the entire disk with all partitions.  That way, anything you do can also be restored to that point in time agian (just in case).  If safemode troubleshooting doesn't help, you could try a Windows 7 "in place" upgrade.  It should keep all of your settings, apps, data, etc, but repair the OS if something is truly wrong. 

 

System 2:  Again, take an offline image with your bootable recovery media - make sure it's the entire disk with all paritions. That way, anything you do can also be restored to that point in time agian (just in case).  After that move your drive into the other system.  Use your bootable recovery media again and boot into Universal restore this time.  Run universal restore - don't add any drivers.  Just run Universal REstore.  Afterwards, try booting agian.  If it fails to boot or gives a BSOD at this point, it is most likely that you need to change the SATA mode in the bios to match the sata mode of the bios in the original system (AHCI, RAID, or SATA). 

 

In all cases, you want to boot your offline reocvery media in the same mode as the OS was originally installed (Legacy or UEFI).  This is particualry important when recovering an image.  IF you yoru system is Legacy OS and you boot to UEFI, it will try to restore as UEFI system and vice-versa.  This same limiation exists even when installing your OS... if you boot to the OS installer as UEFI it's going to try and install it UEFI, if you boot the OS installer to Legacy mode it's going ot try to install the OS in Legacy mode.

Bobbo.  Thank you. 

How does one run universal restore. Step by step. 

I already have the images. 

gbullr - check out this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbe8yTOaVGg