universal restore problem
Aloha Gang..got all the way thru the process till after backup was copied to boot to UR and "cannot find os on the current machine"...have all the drivers ready on thumb drive but no OS is found. What did I do wrong? Thanks for your help. I intended to move everything to a new build. Thanks..bobt


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Aloha Bobbo, and thanks for reply:...
#1..Am moving from a 775 chipset with w7 to Z97.with w7 both are home builds and the motherboard on the old machine has died with a continues on/off loop upon startup. Lucky I had a recent backup before it died.
#2..old machine was built in 2008
#3..I believe the old was mbr and the new is uefi
#4..the new has secure boot enabled with OS TYPE aswindows UEFI mode
#5..both machines are w7 but the new does not already have an OS installed prior to using acronis.
#6..new has a ssd drive for boot without using the install cd that came with(samsung 1T)(850 EVO)
#7..old must be SATA and new AHCI
...........new machine has all new hardware but will use sound card from old once new is up and running..so my "C" on new was empty and not formatted..just installed and ran acronis.
..thanks for your time with this.............bobt
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OK - just to be up front, pushing your 8 year old system image to your new one is probably not the best idea. Technically, it is doable, but since your old sytsem was MBR only (assuming legacy bios only too), you will be limiting the capabilties of your new system by forcing the same requirements on your new hardware instead of taking advantage of UEFI and GPT.
My suggestion, would be to load your Win 7 OS (from scratch - the original installation disk) on the new build and activate it with Windows (may need to clal Microsoft because of the change in hardware, but should not be an issue if it is a stand-a-lone version of the OS). Once licensed, immediately upgrade it to Windows 10 using the offline Windows 10 installer (Windows 10 media creator tool), then, once the upgrade is complete, make sure it is licensed and if it says it is, immediately do a clean install of Windows 10 using the same tool (it will automatically license then since peforming the upgrade). From there, build your new, pristine image, install apps and take an image. Then import just your data from your backup and take another image. Then you have those two base images to revert to down the road as your "fresh" starting point for the computer.
If you want to continue with the restore of the old one to the new one though, you will need to disable secure boot. You will need to see if it has legacy/bios/csm mode and enable that and/or make it the first priority. Some systems will let you have UEFI or Legacy, some require you to pick one.
Since the old system was probably SATA, if possible, for the purposes of transferring the old system, you should set your bios to SATA as well (at least until the system is up and running the new image). However, UR should actually generalize that driver so if you have it set to AHCI, the image should install those drivers and not BSOD.
Once the bios is set correctly, does UR then see the OS when it is booted into UR? You didn't mention which version of ATIH you created UR with and wether you used the default Linux Bootable Media or created a WinPE bootable Media of UR. If you created the Linux one ,try creating the WinPE one instead and see if that makes any difference.
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OK I will try your suggestions , if I can figure it al out(ha)..thanks for your time ..
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