Need help on doing first time recovery
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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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.
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