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Hello,

I have made a Full Backup with Acronis True Image 2019 from my first PC on a external USB disk. After that I created a Rescue USB Stick with ATI. This Computer works with Windows 10 and has one SSD Disk with 500 GB.

I will now test the Recovery with a second computer which have no Operating System on the disk. Is this possible and have you any tips for this procedure?

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Steve, welcome to these public User Forums.

It is possible to recover your Windows 10 backup image to a second computer by using the Acronis bootable Rescue media USB stick.

How similar are the two computers involved here?

Do they both have the same CPU architecture, i.e. both 64-bit systems, both using the same type of internal drive connection / both have SATA drives / both use the same BIOS boot method?

See KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media - as this is important for when recovering a backup.

Run the command msinfo32 on your Windows 10 computer and check the BIOS mode value shown in the report - this should probably be UEFI for a modern computer.  This is how Windows boots from the BIOS settings - so if it is UEFI, the BIOS setting will be 'Windows Boot Manager', otherwise, if the BIOS mode shows as Legacy, the BIOS setting is the actual disk drive.

The Acronis rescue media should be booted using the same method (UEFI or Legacy) to match how Windows boots.

Hi Steve, restore on a similar hardware is done und works very well. Unbelievable how good this have worked. Some things that work well with this:

Restore Volumes not files. To do this you must perhaps a little bit scroll in the Acronis Screens.

If you have found your Backup on the external USB disk you want to restore, you are looking for a button that do this. But you have to take a right mouse klick and select restore than.

Deside which Volumes you want to restore. I restored the Desaster Recovery Partition from Windows and the OS Partition with all my data. I didn't restore Track 0 and UEFI Partition

After fill in the informations for the big OS Partion (nearly 500 GB) Acronis works in Background some minutes and you are not sure, that there the process is still working or hang up.

It was not so easy for me to understand all the partitions that were shown in the Acronis Screens at this time. This is because there are a lot of disks and partitions at this time: USB disk with the backupfiles, USB Stick with the Desaster Recovery System and two partions the new PC has. But if you look to the Volumes sizes you get the best overview what is what.

Acronis ask me at first for the size of the new partitions for the Recovery Partion. I accept all Acronis suggestions and take the place from the place that was free.

Second I must decide the size for the OS Partition with all my data. There I take all the rest of the free place.

At the End I still have the two additional partitions the new PC has bring with. But if I want I can delete them after Windows works with the diskmanager from windows.

After all Acronis restored 130 GB from the old PC in nearly 30 minutes. After that windows boots and discovered new hardware. After that the login-screen is there an everything is allright. You must reactivate the Windows product key after this because of the new hardware.

 

Steve, thanks for your update and glad to hear that the migration went well to the new computer.