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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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After you have installed Acronis with the Plus pack, you can also restore your old image with dissimular hardware using the F11 startup before Windows. After you select your restore image, look for the option in regards to different hardware. I believe that it is 3 screens in, about when you select the target locattion.

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.

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?