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New user to Acronis needs help with recovery to new Laptop

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I have backed up my Windows 7 laptop to Acronis 2014. This worked OK. I now need to recover this backed up file to my new laptop windows 8.1 x64. I backed up the windows 7 to an external hard drive but I can not figure out how to recover using the external hard drive to the new laptop. I hope I am making myself clear. Hopefully someone can give me step by step on how to. I tried to send a message to acronis with the same info but no reply and its been a week. HELP. Thanks AL

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If you recover the windows 7 backup, assuming it is the full disk, you will end up with Win 7 on your new laptop. Is this what you want? You can recover all of your files and will have to re-install any applications on your Win 8 laptop. I recommend perusing https://forum.acronis.com/forum/3426 Grover's Guides. Lots of useful information there. Any recovery operation needs to be performed from the recovery media, either a bootable CD or USB drive. I recommend deleting your email address to avoid spammers. Any help will be posted in this forum,.