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Universal Restore to New Laptop Failure...

Hi All,

 

Recently I bought my new laptop Dell Latitute 7480 and I've performed a full disk backup from my old Dell Inspiron  14z laptop and try to perform the universal restore but failure. below are the step by step i did.

1. Backup the disk (Drive C of the old Dell laptop)[FYI. my old laptop have SSD drive (1TB) bu i partition it to OS drive and Data Drive.When I perform the full back up of the disk i only perform it for C drive the OS drive as my new laptop latitute 7480 only have 500GB SSD drive come with it.]

2. create the universal restore rescue media to use in the restore process.

3. After boot up using the universal restore media, I  select the Acronis Backup to perform the restore first. I add new drive from the Tools option to select the disk to restore on the new laptop. Then initialized the new added drive and then star the restore. 

4. for the restore, I basically restore all the partition that I've backup from the old laptop. MBR partition, system reserved partition, etc and through out the restore step, all the partition were select to restore to the new SSD drive on new laptop.

5. after the restore were done,I but out the laptop again using the same universal restore media and select the universal restore option for the boot up.

6. the boot up process find the Win 10 X64 on the OS selection option on the screen. On the search removal media for driver, I left it on. and also adding the drivers that potentially needed for the universal restore. every time I add, it always come out with some error that about could not find some PCi drivers...

I've try many attemp but still failure, any advise for me from all the acronis expert here?

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It is not completely clear to me how you have gone about this.  The method of restoring a backup image to a different (new) computer is to first perform the restore using Recovery Media and once that completes you then use Universal Restore media to add needed drivers.  It is possible to create Media that has both Recovery and Universal Restore on a single device so if you have done that then your post makes more sense.

After you restore the image to the New computer you should go ahead and try to boot the disk.  Since you are using Windows 10 you have a very good chance of it working.  Once booted you can then update drivers for the new hardware using Windows Device Manager.

If that fails then Chipset drivers and storage controller drivers are the most critical.  Having those extracted and available for Universal Restore is necessary.  You can ignore other drivers as they are not boot critical.

Elvin, some further check points here in addition to the comments above from Enchantech:

Do both your laptops boot in the same BIOS mode (as shown by running msinfo32)?  If the old laptop was Legacy and the new laptop is UEFI then there are extra considerations needed in how the Acronis Rescue Media is booted on the restore of the OS to the new laptop.

Do both your laptops use the same disk controller mode, i.e. both use SATA with AHCI? 
If they use different controller modes, then this again will need to be addressed.  Some newer computers now default to using RAID for the controller mode and this can also be an issue when migrating an OS from a system where this wasn't used.