Universal Restore
I had to replace the motherboard in my PC (running Win 10 Pro 64-Bit), so I decided to use the Acronis Universal Restore tool to avoid havin g to re-install windows and the rest of the apps.
I have used this tool in the past (with older versions of Acronis) so I am quite familiar with it.
After I downloaded the Universal Restore Bootable MediaBuilder (AcronisTrueImage2016_ur_en-US) tool, I created a bootable dvd with Acronis Universal Restore and Acronis True Image.
I booted the pc with the newly crerated dvd and started Universal Restore only to be told that it could NOT find an operating system.
I disconnected all the drives except the SSD drive with the operating system and rebooted. I got the same message.
I know that the SSD has the OS. I used a bootable dvd with Acronis Disk Director and it clearly shows that the SSD drive has a Primary MBR partition and is marked ACTIVE.
What did I do wrong?
George


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The big change with older versions is that you first need to do a normal restore, using the regular rescue medium. Then, you boot the computer on the Universal Restore REcovery Medium version and you perform the UR. 2 operations instead of one.
Note that if you have Windows 10 as the image you restore, I would first try to boot without UR. It might just work.
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The motherboard does support both MBR and UEFI, and it has a very recent BIOS (12/24/2015). Since I was sort-of out of ideas at the time, I took a "shot in the dark" and tried to boot Windows. To my surprise, Win 10 booted with no problem. Since I had already downloaded the latest drivers from the motherboard manufacturers website, I just updated the drivers and now the system is in great shape.
BTW, thanks for the reply and the useful information !!!
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As I mentioned in my previous post, since I was sort-of out of ideas at the time, I took a "shot in the dark" and tried to boot Windows. To my surprise, Win 10 booted with no problem.
I suppose this is a new feature for Win 10?
Thanks for your reply and helpful information !
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Windows 10 is just better at providing driver support for installed hardware than previous versions were. Makes things much easier!
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