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