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Acronis 2020 Restore of cloned drive

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Hi Group...

I back up my system by using the cloning of the complete C: drive to an external removable hard drive. I have many disks and rotate through them. 

I am building a new computer and want to restore the windows 10 operating system from my old computer to the new computer. The new computer has more current hardware(Motherboard and CPU, hard drive, etc)

I have read the article 62970: Acronis True Image 2020: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore

and it really does not discuss the method of cloning the backed up drive to the new hardware.  With the exception of the changing the drivers, it would seem to me that this should work.

Has anyone tried this?

Thanks,

David

 

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David, welcome to these public User Forums.

The process for migrating a Windows OS from one PC to a different one uses the Backup & Recovery process, not cloning, hence there is no mention of the latter in the documentation for AUR.

It is always recommended to have a full disk / partitions backup before embarking on this type of migration though if you have current working cloned drives, that would be equivalent for providing a recovery method for the original system.

In your scenario, you could simply try installed the cloned Win 10 disk in the new PC and try booting into Windows from it.  Windows 10 & 11 have much improved handling of changed hardware so it may be able to resolve such changes in the boot process though this could fail if there are significant changes to the disk controller or if the cloned disk comes from a legacy boot system and the new one uses UEFI to boot.

The advantage of using the recommended migration method is that the new system will be booted using Acronis rescue media in the correct BIOS boot mode for that system, and the Recovery process will perform any migration from Legacy / MBR to UEFI / GPT if needed.

KB 62970: Acronis True Image 2020: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore and in particular review Steps 4 and 5 of this document.

Also KB 2149: Acronis Universal Restore

KB 36187: Windows activation required after restore with Acronis Universal Restore, cloning or converting backup to virtual machine

KB 45432: Acronis Software: Troubleshooting Universal Restore and Bootability Issues

KB 46405: Acronis True Image: Restored Operating System Fails to Boot

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David Boeff wrote:

Thanks will let you know how it works out.

Hello David!

Could you please tell us the output?

Was the activity successful? Or do you need any help from our side at this moment?

Thanks in advance!