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Acronis True Image Home 2011 - Recover back up on same model different computer.

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I just exchanged my laptop for another laptop of the same model number (Samsung 700Z5C-201) and I looked up my backup file on my external HDD. I'm not sure if anything would go wrong if I just recovered the file onto my new laptop of the same model number, so I would like to see if there are any problems with this. Also I have MS Office 2011 downloaded onto my old computer and it should be on my backup file as well.

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Brian,

You should boot to your Acronis Rescue Media (bootable CD/DVD) and perform a full disk backup of your new laptop before doing any type of restore from an older backup. If your older backup is corrupt, or does not contain all of the old system partitions, you would be left with a non-working system after attempting the restore. After backing up your system, you should be fine restoring your older backup to your new laptop since it is a different (new) system, but has the same internal hardware since it is the same model.

James