True Image 2021 did not restore my drive properly.
I have heard a lot about Acronis True Image and I decided to give it a try. I downloaded the latest version and installed it on my second computer. I took the ssd drive of my first computer (Win 10 x64 pro 20H2 both computers) and plugged it in my second computer. I ran True Image and created a backup of the hole drive. Operation completed successfully. I formatted the drive, deleted the partitions and tried to restore the backup. Operation completed successfully and checked the file on that computer. The files where there. I took the drive and plugged it in my first computer again. The computer cannot boot Windows. After the initial screen from the motherboard, I see the screen in the attached image instead of the Windows 10 logo. Any ideas what went wrong?
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How was the drive connected to the PC during the backup and restore - internal SATA or M.2 port, or via USB?
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Both motherboards are quite old. The pc with the target drive (the drive that the backup is mage of) has an MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard and the pc with the destination drive has an MSI NF750-G55 board. Acronis true Image is installed on the second computer and I used internal SATA II port for both the target and destination drive.
About the UEFI/BIOS question, there is no UEFI. The boards are too old, there was no UEFI back then. Also, I used an app, rufus, to write a Windows 10 ISO image to a flash drive and that app by default used UEFI mode. When I tried to install Win 10 to the target drive, a similar screen with the one in my initial post appeared telling me that UEFI mode was used instead of a BIOS/legacy mode. I rewrote the ISO image using BIOS mode and then it was installed correctly. I did some work with it and tried to restore the backup file. Then the problem appeared. I tried to boot in safe mode and then Windows started. It wasn’t easy to boot in safe mode as I didn’t know what to do. Rebooted and now, everything, seems to be ok, but I am not pretty sure about that.
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Both motherboards are quite old. The pc with the target drive (the drive that the backup is mage of) has an MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard and the pc with the destination drive has an MSI NF750-G55 board. Acronis true Image is installed on the second computer and I used internal SATA II port for both the target and destination drive.
About the UEFI/BIOS question, there is no UEFI. The boards are too old, there was no UEFI back then. Also, I used an app, rufus, to write a Windows 10 ISO image to a flash drive and that app by default used UEFI mode. When I tried to install Win 10 to the target drive, a similar screen with the one in my initial post appeared telling me that UEFI mode was used instead of a BIOS/legacy mode. I rewrote the ISO image using BIOS mode and then it was installed correctly. I did some work with it and tried to restore the backup file. Then the problem appeared. I tried to boot in safe mode and then Windows started. It wasn’t easy to boot in safe mode as I didn’t know what to do. Rebooted and now, everything, seems to be ok, but I am not pretty sure about that.
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