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MIA Support - Restoring to Dissimilar Hardware

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This has been a long laborious process and I can't seem to get any help. Not the first time. Had similar issues when I had 2010. I purchased Acronis Home 2011 with the Plus Pack for two computers. This should tell you how long this has been going on. The key codes that I downloaded directly from the site didn't work. I eventually got them working and got the programs loaded. I now need to restore to a dissimilar computer, which has Acronis Home 2011 and the Plus Pack. All these numbers are from the Knowledge Base articles. I previously created a boot disk #14737 for Windows 7, #13641 I downloaded the AIK for Windows 7, #1810 Burned it to a disk, Followed the Window's Blog on how to burn ISO images natively and tried to extract the files that the knowledge base indicated. Guess what? No file for Windows 64 bit Netfxx64. I haven't gotten to the other two files yet. I'm not a computer geek but can usually hold my own. I have been to multiple knowledge base files and am no where close to restoring. I'm at the point where it will take less time for me to reinstall the programs manually. Clearly it misses the point but once I do this there is no reason for me to ever upgrade Acronis. The only reason I shelled out the money for the Acronis Home 2011 and Plus Pack for 2 computers was to be able to restore and NOT manually reinstall.

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Debbie,

You don't need to create a WinPE-based disk (AIK and all that) to use universal restore, UNLESS the default recovery CD doesn't see your hardware properly.

To start with, you need to use Universal Restore ONLY if you restore to another motherboard, or, in some cases, if you change the disk controller settings in your computer (for example on some computer the controller for AHCI connections is not the same as the one for RAID).
The first thing is to create/download the acronis recovery CD image after you have installed the plus pack. You don't need to do a new backup if you have included all your partitions that are on your system disk. Use windows disk management (right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management) to ascertain that completion.

Second, you need to uncompressed drivers on your other/different computer, for its disk controller and chipset. These drivers need to be in their INF format. If you have the same Windows version installed on that other computer as the one you restore, you can simply copy the system32/drivers folders to some USB flash drive that will be available during restore.