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Cloning to dissimilar hardware

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Hi All, apologies If this answer is staring me in the face somewhere I just cant see it.

When I purchased Acronis , I was under the impression the premium version would allow me to clone a disk and restore it to dissimilar hardware?

I've been waiting so long for a IDE to USB connector I've only just had the chance to test this - It doesn't work The disk wont boot up and instead loops into Mem testing or full system test.

Am I missing something here with the "Restoring to dissimilar hardware" meaning?
I thought (was hoping ) I could clone a built-to office-spec PC at work - and use that clone to build the rest of them - I've used this clone to build lots of PCs of the same model , but we have a new order of slightly different models but same OS

Thanks

James

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Cloning cannot be done to different hardware. You have to restore from a backup image file. The difference is cloning makes an exact copy of the disk and copies it to the second disk. Usually used to replace a hard drive. Make a backup image of the machine and then choose the "Universal Restore" option during recovery. You will need the correct chipset/HDD controller drivers for the new machines. See http://www.acronis.com/en-us/support/documentation/ATIH2014/#10116.html