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Old Computers and Hard Drives

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Hi,

I have a an old copy of Acronis v9.1 which I haven't used in quite some time. I want to purchase the latest version of True Image for the following tasks. I'm a home user, not business.

I have old hard drives I've taken from various PCs over the years as I've upgraded. I want to connect these to my PC using a usb-ide/scsi/whatever and image them to a NAS drive so I can get rid of the multitude of old drives in my cabinet. If the drive was a boot drive I plan on converting the tib file to a VMware machine.

In addition to the old drives, I have some old laptops dating back many years. I want to create a Acronis boot cd/dvd and use it to do the same, create a tib file, copy to a NAS drive, may convert to VMware if a boot drive. I want to then wipe the drives on the PCs so I can recycle them. They're too old to be useful, the oldest is probably a Thinkpad A31p, about 20 years old.

Will I be able to do this with v14.5? Will I need a special license? It is a one time backup on the drives and PCs. Just have to clean up my closet. Thanks.

 

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Michael, welcome to these public User Forums.

You should be able to use ATI 2019 to do what you are asking but you will need to check on the different types of Acronis Rescue Media with regards to very old laptops such as your Thinkpad A31 as this may have a Non-PAE CPU.

I have an old Thinkpad T42 with a Non-PAE CPU and had to create the Linux version the rescue media using the boot option of 'forcepae' to get it to boot.  The media will also need to be 32-bit for older processors.

Worse case, put the drive in an adapter and attach to a modern computer and then run the backup.  Use a USB 3.0 adapter or caddy.  There are many hard drive docks or physical duplicators that support SATA and PATA drives at the same time.  As long as the disk can be connected and seen in Windows, Acronis can back it up in Windows or with bootable rescue media that can be created as WinRE, WinPE or Linux-based.