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I need to restore to dissimilar hardware going from a non secure boot system to a system with with secure boot enabled. Is this possible?   Looking to be able to upgrade to windows 11 from 10. 

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Bill, welcome to these public User Forums.

What are you meaning by 'dissimilar hardware' in this context?

If you are looking to change over from Legacy boot to UEFI plus Secure Boot on the same PC then it is the same hardware and there are several possible options you can use.

Have you checked that your PC is capable of running Windows 11 using the tool from MS?

With Acronis, you can take a Legacy backup disk image and restore this using the Acronis Rescue media booted in UEFI boot mode and it will automatically do the restore and convert the target drive from MBR to GPT and create the required EFI System partition on the drive.

If considering doing the above, then think about investing in a spare disk drive to use to test the process so that the working original drive is set aside safe in case it is needed.

If you are looking at a completely different PC, then there are a lot more considerations that can be involved in migrating your Windows OS, not least being that all current versions of Acronis have no knowledge of Windows 11 and therefore are not supported for use with that version of the OS at this time.

See KB 60589: Acronis True Image: Windows Insider Program (beta) builds support

The Windows 11 compatibility tool status changed to “coming soon”. Unless you already have a TPM 2 you may have a problem as aftermarket TPM are in short supply. 

See webpage: New GitHub app details precisely why your PC cannot upgrade to Windows 11 - which is said to be better than the MS tool!

Thanks Steve!
I could have been much clearer in my question, my apologies
What I am doing is making sure my PC is ready for Win 11.  I have discovered its not capable of secure boot, so new motherboard time.
thank you!
 
 
Steve Smith wrote:

Bill, welcome to these public User Forums.

What are you meaning by 'dissimilar hardware' in this context?

If you are looking to change over from Legacy boot to UEFI plus Secure Boot on the same PC then it is the same hardware and there are several possible options you can use.

Have you checked that your PC is capable of running Windows 11 using the tool from MS?

With Acronis, you can take a Legacy backup disk image and restore this using the Acronis Rescue media booted in UEFI boot mode and it will automatically do the restore and convert the target drive from MBR to GPT and create the required EFI System partition on the drive.

If considering doing the above, then think about investing in a spare disk drive to use to test the process so that the working original drive is set aside safe in case it is needed.

If you are looking at a completely different PC, then there are a lot more considerations that can be involved in migrating your Windows OS, not least being that all current versions of Acronis have no knowledge of Windows 11 and therefore are not supported for use with that version of the OS at this time.

See KB 60589: Acronis True Image: Windows Insider Program (beta) builds support

Ian, Thanks

I downloaded the tool right before it was pulled.  Says I don't have Secure Boot capability 

 

bill

 

IanL-S wrote:

The Windows 11 compatibility tool status changed to “coming soon”. Unless you already have a TPM 2 you may have a problem as aftermarket TPM are in short supply

So I assume once I get a new motherboard and a new drive to test on, I can do the dissimilar restore ?  The docs on Acronis, says to "prepare the new drivers"  Exactly what is the procedure for the preparation and which drivers are they referring to?

Bill

Bill, the main guide is KB 65413: Acronis True Image 2021: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore - which outlines the steps that you need to follow.

If you are getting a new motherboard then try to keep to the same CPU family, i.e. if the old PC is Intel then upgrade to a new Intel board etc.

The new motherboard should come with a driver CD that will have all the most important drivers, i.e. chipset and controller drivers, but these may be in the force of .exe files, so you will need to extract drivers from within these.  Note: you can normally open the .exe file in such as 7zip.

One other option would be to do a clean install of Windows 10 to the new disk drive on the new motherboard which would allow you to see exactly what device drivers get installed, then make copies of those installed drivers using a tool such as Double Driver.
If you do use this option, then make a full disk backup of the working OS before going ahead with attempting to migrate your current OS to the new setup.