Will this work?
I need some help. Is it possible with Acronis to clone a hard dive on one computer and then install the cloned hard drive in another computer that has a different CPU and motherboard? I have several programs that I am not able to reinstall on a new hard drive. Thanks


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These official Acronis videos on Youtube explain it to the T: check them out.
How to clone a disk with Acronis True Image 2016
How to recover with Acronis Universal Restore
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This one is also good for explaining UEFI system BIOS changes (in case your newer system has it, but your old system doesn't).
How to Fix Issue Booting to DVD/CD with New UEFI BIOS Boot Order
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Thanks guys, both machines are using windows 7 and the machine i will be transfering to is a BIOS motherboard not UEFI BIOS. So i would
1. clone the old computer hard drive with all the sofware i am trying to save.
2. make a UNIVERSAL RESTORE disk off of the new machine.
3. install the cloned hard drive in the new machine.
4. boot up the new machine with the UNIVERSAL RESTORE disk and restore from it.
am i leaving anything out?
Thanks again
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Pretty much.
Personally, since you are moving hardware though, I would not "clone" the old drive. Instead, I would take a backup of the entire disk and restore that image to the new one. Ultimately, the resultes are the same, but you can do either - it's entireley up to you. If you do "clone" make sure to use your offline bootable recovery media to start the process - don't start it in Windows - it's just going to reboot and boot into the Acronis media on your disk, but using the offline recovery media is just cleaner.
Once you put the recovered or cloned drive into the new system, assuming the basic bios is similar (no secure boot, bios/csm/legacy mode enabled, and the SATA mode is the same... RAID/AHCI/etc) you could try to fire it up and see if it acutally boots or not. If the hardware is similiar enough, it might actually boot. If you get a BSOD though, then yeah, you'd boot into Universal Restore, run it to generalize the hardware drivers, boot into Windows and then apply drivers via computer management >>>> devicde manager.
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