New Laptop and Transferring all
I've had Acronis for years (2017 version) but just bought a new laptop & need to transfer everything over. So newbie here. Lot's of questions. It is just as easy as signing into my account via online and choosing "downloads- bootable media"? What if I'm going from Windows 10 to Windows 11? Any issues I need to be aware of? Will I be able to not select transferring the OS? What is the difference between bootable media and a universal restore? I just want to make sure I do it correctly. Will I have to install Acronis on the new laptop or is access via online sufficient? Any help is appreciated.


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Thank you so much Steve. I also have Carbonite. I'm assuming the philosophy is the same and to transfer data only if I can't get Acronis to work? Also, if I transfer the license to the new laptop, I'm assuming I lose access on the old PC? So data will have to come from the online download on the new laptop? Thanks again for the help.
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If you did transfer over everything from the old to the new laptop, then you are still likely to encounter licensing issues for any applications that bases their activation on the hardware signature of the device it is installed on, i.e. Windows, MS Office and Acronis do this.
If you have data stored in the Acronis Cloud servers, then you can access it from any PC using a web browser if you sign in using your Acronis account credentials but if you want to work within the Acronis 2017 application with that data, then you would need a license for each PC unless you create and use Acronis bootable rescue media for the one without a license.
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