Steve Smiths Universal Restore Explanation Thu, 12/22/2016
I created a Universal Restore USB and Acronis Bootable Media and sees the "no operating system found" when he loads it to see if it boots. Unsure of what is going on I place my inquire here for when I get a new Motherboard ect. I would like to understand.
I have an older system with legacy BIOS not UEFI. I got past the creation of a Universal Restore, Acronis Bootable Media USB issue. Now on to 1. Making an image of my full C: disk & partition to be migrated.
I am preparing for the day I make the switch. I do not understand the not seeing the operating System. In my case Windows 10
I get going to DriverIdenifier and getting the drivers for my new system I am a simple guy, i like Steve Smiths steps I just don't know what I am missing.
Steve Smith posted way back when:
Samuel, I am not sure that you are understanding how Universal Restore is intended to be used.
In brief, the steps should be as follows:
- Make a full disk & partitions backup image of the source disk drive containing the OS being migrated.
- Make the Acronis bootable Rescue Media on CD or USB.
- Make the Acronis bootable Universal Restore Media on CD or USB.
- Boot the target system from the Acronis bootable Rescue Media and restore the backup image created in step 1. to the target disk drive.
- Shutdown the target system and remove the Acronis Rescue Media and storage drive.
- Boot the target system from the Acronis Universal Restore Media and select the restored Windows OS on the drive where the backup was restored to. All AUR to prepare the OS to work with the different hardware found on the target system.
- Shutdown the target system and remove the AUR media.
- Attempt to boot the target system from the restored / prepared Windows OS and allow time for any new devices to be detected during Windows startup, new device drivers to be installed etc.


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