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Universal Restore Works!

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While I've had my share of 'quirky' behavior with TrueImage Home 2010 I am very pleased with the Plus Pack.

I just upgraded to a new motherboard and processor and thought I'd give Acronis a try. I
- imaged the main drive
- shut down the system and replaced the motherboard (and processor)
- booted using the Acronis bootable CD
- restored the entire drive using Universal Restore

System booted fine, Windows loaded some drivers, I loaded all the board drivers off the manufacturers website and everything has run perfectly for the last week since this happened.

So again, it works as advertised and saved me tons of time, good job on the Plus Pack Acronis!

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Hi Mike,
Glad for you.Were you prompted to activate your Windows OS with Microsoft??

Yes. I think it said I had 3 days or something like that to activate Windows. I clicked it and was activated in a couple of seconds. Of course, I did switch out the motherboard, processor, and RAM which I am sure triggered the need to re-activate.

Hi,
If you were given 3 days to activate, I suspect your new motherboard was from the same company and same make than the old one.In such a case you don't need Plus Pack to migrate.
Otherwise it would have been more complicated to activate and to achieve the process.

If it's so , I regret to inform you that Plus Pack is not involved in the migration process.
An image restore would have done( and probably did) the same job that you attributed to PP.

Nope, two different brands of motherboards, from Asus to Gigabyte. I tried just a disk restore and that fails as I expected it to. As I am sure you're aware, the Plus Pack abstracts the hardware layer, which is exactly what needs to happen when you change motherboards.

So, just to be clear, the normal disk restore did NOT work and typically won't work. The Plus Pack did it's job beautifully by restoring the OS and programs, data, etc. on the new system without any hiccups at all.

Hi Mike,
Thanks for these explanations.