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Need help on doing first time recovery

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wife's dell 8940 crashed and Dell sending tech to replace SSD-HD.

I have an Acronis boot CD but it's for her older dell dated 2018. Current PC less than 1 year old.
Need guidance

1- should I make rescue media builder or universal retore from/on my Dell PC to use on hers
2- when PC is working again do I need to reinstall  True Image 2020 first?
3- what's the process or steps to get going again from last backup?
4- I have always done full backups so what do I select... see photo attached.
thanks

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Larry, assuming that when the Dell tech replaces the SSD that they will do a factory restore of the OS or at least install Windows on it, then I would recommend reinstalling ATI2020 on that PC then use that to create the 'Simple' rescue media from that PC, plus make a full backup of the clean OS as a precaution in case you ever want to get back to that starting state.

Once you have the new rescue media, then test booting the Dell 8940 from it so that you understand that process and get familiar with the offline Acronis rescue environment.

The recommended process for doing the recovery is from the rescue media and doing a disk level recovery as described below.  You should choose the most recent of your backup files.

See KB 63226: Acronis True Image 2020: how to create bootable media and KB 59877: Acronis True Image: how to distinguish between UEFI and Legacy BIOS boot modes of Acronis Bootable Media

KB 63295: Acronis True Image 2020: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media

When doing the restore of your backup, this needs to be done as a Disk & Partition restore and at the top Disk selection level.

Please see forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup - and in particular the attached PDF document which shows a step-by-step tutorial for doing this type of recovery / restore.

See also my YouTube video of a disk recovery (using ATI 2021)

Thanks for replying. Got some reading to do... That said what's the difference between the first 2

 

What's the universal restore feature?

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Larry, an ISO file is a CD/DVD image that then needs to be burnt to optical media but this is an extra step that isn't needed if you take the third option and do it directly.

A WIM file is a WinPE image that is used on USB media but needs to be copied to replace an existing WIM file as needs other files to be bootable.   This isn't needed if using the fourth option and plugging in a USB stick to create media directly.

Universal Restore is only needed when there is a complete change of hardware, i.e. you are taking your backup image from the Dell 8940 to such as a HP PC etc, where it has a different motherboard, CPU etc.  It is not needed when restoring an image to the same PC even when the boot disk has been changed.