Recovered system hangs at windows startup

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I have acronis True Image Home 2011 & Disk Director 11 home

I have been making backups regularly for the past 18 months but this week a friend gave me his (not so) old PC as he has upgraded. I thought here is a chance to try my backups to see if they work without risking my live machine.

I replaced the system disk with a blank disk and put a data disk (which had the backups on) in as well,
I then booted from CD and ran Acronis recovery for the C drive & mbr.

The recovery finished successfully and the system starts but when the message "Starting Windows" and the flying bits of the logo start then after a fraction of a second the system hangs, on rebooting it goes to the "do you want to boot in safe mode menu" and each option either fails at the same point or goes around in a loop.

I've tried with a different blank disk and get the same result. If I put in my friends original C drive back in & it boots again OK.

Can anyone help? or Suggest what might be the cause? TIA

My system is Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, running on a Quad CPU with 4GB ram.

The recovery machine is also quad CPU running with 8GB ram (but different manufacture mother board/ graphics card).

ven 08/02/2013 - 17:15
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As you didn't mention that you used Universal Restore, I assume you didn't. Universal Restore may be required when restoring to different hardware (that is HDD controller and motherboard chipset) Universal Restore functionality in case of True Image Home is provided by 'Plus Pack' addon.

p.s. You can move it to the "True Image Home, older versions" section

dim 10/02/2013 - 14:05
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Thanks for the info, I've not heard of this.

Just checking with Acronis link to plus pack it looks like I will have to buy an upgrade to 2013. If this solves the problem then it's worth the investment.

I am disappointed though in my original purchase, I think on something like this it should have been made clearer we don't all want to be backup experts we are just buying an insurance policy for bad times, this seems to me to be like the times when insurance companies refuse to pay up because you weren't aware of some obscure clause in the small print.

I'll report back when I've purchased and tried the upgrade.

Thanks again

dim 10/02/2013 - 12:09