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I am running Windows 10 IOT Enterprise with some of our custom apps on a single board computer.  this is an embedded project.   It has a C and D drive that are both soldered to the board. I want to create a system image to a USB drive and move it to another single board computer and restore everything.  Eventually the board manufacturer will deliver us boards with the image already installed, but during our development I dont want to waste time creating everything by hand.

Can Acronis TI 2020 do this?  Or at least get close, like image C and D independently?

thanks!

 

 

 

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Robert, welcome to these public User Forums.

The ATI 2020 User Guide list of Supported Operating Systems shows as below:

Supported operating systems

Acronis True Image 2020 has been tested on the following operating systems:

  • Windows 10 (all editions, including November 2019 Update, except for Windows IoT edition and Windows 10 LTSB) *
  • Windows 8.1 (except for Windows Embedded editions)
  • Windows 8 (except for Windows Embedded editions)
  • Windows 7 SP1 (all editions)
  • Windows Home Server 2011

* Beta builds are not supported. For more information, refer to https://kb.acronis.com/content/60589

Acronis True Image 2020 also lets you create a bootable CD-R/DVD-R or USB drive that can back up and recover a disk/partition on a computer running any Intel- or AMD- based PC operating system, including Linux®. Note that the Intel-based Apple Macintosh is not supported.

Warning! Successful recovery is only guaranteed for the supported operating systems. Other operating systems can be backed up using a sector-by-sector approach, but they may become unbootable after recovery.

What this means in practice is that Acronis do not support ATI 2020 being installed on your Windows 10 IoT system but...  you should be able to create the Acronis bootable rescue media (assuming that your single board computer supports booting from USB or DVD media) and use the offline media to create backup images of your C: and D: drives.

Unfortunately, you would need to purchase a copy of ATI 2020 to test the rescue media for making backups as the 30-day trial version is limited to doing recovery only, but even the trial version would show if the offline application can boot your computers and see the embedded drives correctly.  If it can, then the full version should have no issues with making a backup too, as at that point it is agnostic about what the actual installed OS is - it just looks at valid disk file systems.

Though I am not tech-savvy, I can recommend you a source from where I got the solution to do the same without using any tool. Follow this guide: How to Create a System Image Backup in Windows 10