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Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Plus Pack

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I have purchased True Image Home with the Plus Pack. I understand that Plus Pack gives you the ability to restore to dissimilar hardware. My question is, do I need to do anything in addition to creating the bootable recovery disk and creating a back up image in order to have this functionality?

Thanks,

John

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You may need the chipset drivers for your mother board if they are not built into windows. See http://kb.acronis.com/content/5410

Dissimilar Hardware Issue Persists

It is an old issue, but keeps coming over and over again.

In Windows XP era I wanted to transfer my programs to a new machine. Acronis couldn't do it. Finally I did it with Cyberlink PowerBackup. It let me transfer from any partition size to any partition size. Only thing I needed is the XP installation CD.

For Windows 7 PowerBackup did not have the solution. So, I bought Acronis True Image Home. It couldn't do the job, I spent a significant amount of time talking to them over phone and emailing them, but no luck.

Now, the same problem is with Windows 8. Hopefully, Cyberlink will release a new version with Windows 8 support.