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Restore Back-up from Laptop to a Desktop Computer

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Hello! I hope I am asking in the good section of the forum, this is my first time when posting.

I have installed windows XP in my father's Laptop and a lot of application and I did make a FULL backup with Acronis True Image Home.

Now I wish to restore the image on my workstation, is this possible to do it because the machines are different type, diferent processor, different components and so on, but I don't wish to reinstall all those application and updates again because will be very time consuming.

EDIT: THE Video Card is different.

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You need to buy the Acronis Plus Pack, which is a plugin to ATI (Acronis True Image Home). Then, you need to produce a new recovery CD. This CD will feature the Universal Restore function that you will use to insert new drivers while you restore.

The backup doesn't change. You just need to make sure you have created a disk and partition backup that contains *all* the partitions of your old system disk.