Restore from an image
I use the Acronis boot disk to create full, "offline" backup images of new PC's after they are setup. I haven't used a Plus Pack yet so I'm not exactly sure when it comes into play; if I needed to restore an image to dissimilar hardware using the Plus Pack, I would do that "online," as in, from within Windows, right?
Are these steps correct: Buy new pc, boot to windows, install acronis plus pack, point acronis at the image file?
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ZacSizChip,
To restore a system disk image to dissimalar hardware you first need to:
- download the bootable media iso image that includes the plus pack from your Acronis account, and burn it to a new CD, OR produce a new recovery CD from the Acronis UI after the plus pack has been installed,
- gather the drivers for the chipset, disk controllers of the dissimilar computer, get them in their native *.inf format (not zip or exe) and put on them on a location that is accessible during the restore (for example a usb stick)
- boot the computer on that new CD, select to restore disk/partition, activate the UR option on that screen,
- point ATI at the folder containing the drivers when requested,
- let ATI do the restore.
If your dissimilar computer has the same version of windows installed as the one in the backup, you can simply copy the system32/drivers folder to your USB stick.
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Ok, so I understand that I need to make a new bootable CD from the PlusPack. Are the images I created without PlusPack still good?
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