Using Universal Restore in the Not distant future.
Hi @ All,
Question: What version of Acronis True Image Universal Restore should I be using to restore as well as reading the Description, 2017 or 2018?
Reason, playing Musical Motherboards. Losing my Floppy Drive as a result.
Taking Motherboard from the Living room Computer and putting it in my Bedroom Computer.
Taking Bedroom Computer and putting into a New HTPC Case for another Bedroom and recording TV programs onto it. Too Expensive to replace the DVD Drive in the existing DVD - VHS Recorder.
Putting a New Motherboard in the Living room Computer.
Questions?


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What OS are you running on your computers?
With Windows 10 you might get away without Universal Restore. Just plug your old disk on the new motherboard, and try. Or restore your image on your new disk and try.
I tried to plug an SSD set up as MBR/Legacy BIOS on another motherboard set up as GPT/UEFI boot, and it just booted. I then restored the Image to a GPT/UEFI NvMe SSD using the recovery CD and a UEFI boot, and it was correctly applied as a new GPT/UEFI set up.
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Yes, Windows 10 has very good driver support and if your mobo supports both Legacy and UEFI boot and both are enabled Win 10 will boot either straight away in most cases. This may not work if chipset drivers are different however.
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Hi @ Enchantech and All ,
Enchantech, thank you for showing your systems, which gave me the idea to Add to my Signature. I did not know that the changes on the Forum allowed for adding System Information, which I have done. Being "Retired" did me the time to do Beta Testing. :)
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Hi @ Pat L ,
Added my System Information to my Signature.
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Morton,
Thanks for adding your system(s) specs, it is much easier and faster to give a comprehensive response when this information is provided. I hope that more users will follow your example!
I have reviewed the Specs on the ASUS support site on both of the motherboards you indicate. The P5N-D board is an older board but a good board no less ( I own similar P5Q Deluxe). I note that the P5N board uses an NVIDIA chipset and Storage is a mix of IDE and SATA III interface.
The other board, B85M-G is a more modern board using an Intel chipset and Intel RST storage controller.
The differences in these components are your primary concern in migrating in the manner you have outlined. My recommendation is as follows:
First, it appears that your multi-boot installations on the P5N machine includes 2 XP SP3 installs in 2 disk partitions. I suspect these installs may be on your IDE channel drive(s). If so then you face the issue of changing from IDE to SATA and AHCI drivers for the B85M board.
This migration may prove the most challenging and may necessitate the reinstall of XP SP3. Keep in mine here you are doing two different things here, 1, is the change from IDE storage controller to an SATA storage controller which each have different drivers and 2, is the change from ATA based storage drivers (IDE native) to SATA (AHCI native) drivers.
Windows XP does not provide AHCI drivers so these must be third party installs. In your situation you have to determine which drivers you need for XP then the method for updating the drivers. In reviewing the specs on the ASUS site it looks like the P5N board has an NVIDIA storage controller for the 4 SATA controller ports. The IDE channel should be run by the southbridge Intel chipset however, you need to verify this to be sure. The motherboard manual may provide the answer here. Knowing that will provide the steps to move forward. Ideally, if the IDE channel is run by The Intel southbridge finding what Family that southbridge belongs to will provide the answer to what drivers will be needed to upgrade the XP installs to AHCI mode drivers. With AHCI enabled in Win XP it should make the migration from an IDE/ATA install to an SATA/AHCI install much more likely to succeed.
I am attaching a SuperUser discussion on this topic for your reference in which a number of paths forward are offered. All are valid avenues to approach this but you must first discover exactly what you have to work with first. Link HERE
EDIT: You can use Windows Device Manager to find out the controller info for the IDE channel. Expand the IDE entry in Device Manager and note the description displayed.
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Hi @ Enchantech ,
Thanks, however, IDE will not be a problem. As you stated, the P5N-D Motherboard has both IDE and SATA Connectors and in the process of backing up my 3 operating systems on the IDE Hard Drive and removing that Hard Drive and replacing it with a 1 GB SATA Hard Drive. In the end, that Computer will have 3 Sata Hard Drives and one Sata DVD Recorder.
Once I make the change, I can move the P5N-D motherboard to a New HTPC Case, which has room for one Hard Drive and one Optical Drive.
Then room won't be a problem, because I am using DNS-323 Storage Unit, which I can move to a TV Recordings to that, and not run out of room.
Making the change, because while I can receive the Insider Builds, it doesn't finish the installation. Gets stuck on the Windows Logo Flag.
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I did a bit more research on your P5N board. IDE will be in play with this board. The nvidia chipset used does not support AHCI. It supports SATAIDE, and SATARAID. What this means is that your OS installs on this board are all using IDE mode for the SATA drives attached. For your XP installs this is going to be a problem because as I said before XP does not have native AHCI drivers. I did not have time to check if the B85M board supports IDE mode or not, you should check, if it does then you can probably migrate the SATA drives from the P5N board to the B85M board. If not then I believe you will have issue with XP. Your Win 10 installs should work however.
Suggest you read the article link I provided in detail to get some idea of how you might go about this.
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Morton,
I found that the B85M board will support SATA IDE mode. That would allow you restore a backup of your existing installs on your IDE drive to the new drive by changing the SATA mode on the board to IDE mode, run the restore of the backup image, use UR to add chipset drivers, and hopefully boot the machine.
Chipset drivers are available for XP and Win 10 for this board on the ASUS site. Windows 10 should boot with generic drivers and then be updated via Device Manager. XP however is your problem here, read below.
Unfortunately, the ASUS B85M board uses an Intel Series 8 chipset. I could not locate a driver for Win XP of any flavor for this chipset on the Intel site. This tells me that there is no support for XP on this particular motherboard for SATA drives run in AHCI mode.
You may achieve success if you stay with SATA IDE mode but performance will suffer.
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