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Hi Guys

I hope you chaps are well. I need some great advice. Thanks In advance.

Okay:
We have a Windows 2008 R2 Server. I just installed Acronis 11 with universal restore.
I made a full backup and the boo-table media iso as well.

I decided to simulate restoring our server to see if it would work in case our server broke or packed up.

I made a new virtual bare metal machine on Hyper V and booted up the acronis boot media.

The linux type GUI loaded and all was well.

As this would be a machine with no operating system I imagine the "Universal restore" option is to be selected. If I am correct in my assumptions the universal restore function can restore our server OS on another physical computer if ours is to pack up. I am correct?

Anyway- Upon clicking on the Universal Restore: Have a look at the attached Jpeg. It says it cant find operating system. Is this normal? And can i continue with the restore?

Thanks so much Guys

J

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Hello Jason Back,

Welcome to our forum. I am happy to help you solving this issue.

This message indicates, that the Acronis Universal Restore function could not find the operating system inside the backup. Ensure, that you have backed up the complete disk including the boot sector.

Also ensure, that you have stored the backup on a normal disk or NAS system.

Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Thank you.

'Apply universal restore' button on the main page, that you pressed, applies UR to the disk of the machine , not to the backup (and it can't find OS because it's a bare-metal machine). To simulate restore, you need click 'restore' button and check 'use universal restore' on the recovery page.

Fedor Larin wrote:

'Apply universal restore' button on the main page, that you pressed, applies UR to the disk of the machine , not to the backup (and it can't find OS because it's a bare-metal machine). To simulate restore, you need click 'restore' button and check 'use universal restore' on the recovery page.

Awesome! thanks! Let me give that a go and revert back, Thanks guys