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Hi, Need some advice on if this is possible and the process to go about doing it.

My original PC was sent back to Zotac under RMA as the PC is no longer in production an alternative PC will be sent out.

The Original PC config...

M4 MSATA 256GB SSD and 1 TB 5400 Hard Drive, OS Windows 10 64bit.

Backups made of Full PC before being sent for RMA.

Replacement PC Does not have a MSATA port.

Can I create a Single new disk containing both the M4SATA backup and the 1TB setup for the New PC.

effectively 2 Disk backup to 1 Single disk.

Thanks

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Martin, it may be possible to do what you are asking but more information will be needed to understand what may need to be done?

Do you know whether your original PC booted using UEFI and was using GPT for the partition type?
How does the new replacement PC boot and does this match how the old one booted?
See webpage: Check if your PC uses UEFI or BIOS

How were the two drives in your original PC used, i.e. was the 256GB SSD the main Windows 10 OS boot drive, but what was the 1TB HDD used for?

What size of drive do you have in the new PC?

In principle, you should be able to restore your OS backup image to the new PC drive and then use the Acronis Universal Restore boot utility to prepare that restored OS to work with the new hardware that will be found in the new PC.  In doing this, you will need to size the target drive to fit the restored OS (plus other required partitions needed to boot successfully into Windows - i.e. EFI System Partition or Microsoft System Reserved (if not UEFI)).

When you use Universal Restore, this may need additional device drivers for the new motherboard chipset and the disk controller that drives the internal disk drives unless these are common and found in lots of systems.

I would recommend getting the OS to work on the new hardware before then focussing on migrating the contents of the original 1TB HDD unless there is some critical data being held on that second drive.

Hi Steve thanks for your response.

1. Details from the PC Detected boot enviroment from the SSD log file, shows BIOS and this I think makes sense as it is a few years old.

2. New PC also boots from BIOS and is not a UEFI system.

3. Old drives configured as C: (SSD) and E: (1TB drive)   I messed up originally and had the D: drive allocated as a USB DVD drive

SSD was configured as OS Boot drive and some Programs were installed on this drive. 1TB drive has some Program installation but mainly used as data drive.

I would like if possible to use the 1TB drive for both drives (Understand it is smaller than both drives combined but there was plenty of space on the 1TB drive)

Maybe it is possible to create the OS first and then use the unallocated space for a partition restore of the E drive?

New PC will need new drivers as the MSATA is not present on the new system and do not believe the Motherboard chipset is exactly the same although the componenets are very similar.

The Snapshot attachments is of the SSD (Not in orignal system hence the Disk letter allocation is not correct.

Thanks for your help.

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Martin, if your new PC came with an installed / working Windows OS then I would strongly advise to make a full backup of that before you go ahead with any changes to recover the OS from the old PC to it (unless you are intending to remove the working disk drive from it and set it aside).

To use the 1TB drive as the OS drive, you would need to repartition it, i.e. create a 256GB free / unallocated space at the start of the drive where you could restore the partitions from the old SSD to.  Again I would recommend making a full backup of the 1TB HDD drive before making any changes as you could easily wipe out the whole drive by a simple mistake.

I would tend to approach it in the following way, assuming that you have the means to do so.

  1. Backup everything - new PC, SSD, 1TB HDD - to an external USB drive - this is your safety net.
  2. Create and test your Acronis bootable Rescue Media (CD or USB stick) - boot your new PC from this and check all is good.
  3. Create the Acronis Universal Restore Media - test this will boot but do not do anything more.
  4. Remove the new PC HDD (or SSD) and set aside.
  5. Install the 1TB HDD in the new PC
  6. Boot from the Acronis Rescue Media - check that you can see the HDD plus your external USB drive.
  7. Restore the whole disk image from the SSD to the HDD (wipe out the current content / partitions)
  8. Shutdown and switch to the Universal Restore Media then boot from this.
  9. Verify that tha AUR utility can detect your restored Windows OS on the 1TB HDD.  Let AUR prepare this OS to work with the new hardware. Note any device drivers which it may ask for.  (Hopefully it will not need any at all).
  10. If all is OK, then shutdown, remove the AUR media, then attempt to boot into Windows.  Allow for a longer boot time as Windows detects new hardware and installs updated device drivers etc, plus any further restarts that may be needed.
  11. If Windows is restored and working, then check what unallocated space is remaining on the HDD - if needed shrink the OS partition to make free space to hold the new E: partition that you will need to recover the backup of the original HDD contents.
    Note: You can use the free MiniTool Partition Wizard software to do the partition sizing / moving as needed.
  12. Restore the original HDD partition(s) to the unallocated space from the external USB drive.  Note: if this is given a different drive letter then you may need to do some reassigning of drive letters to get it to be shown as E: which is needed if you have programs installed to that partition.  Again you can use MiniTool to do this, or do it via Windows Disk Management.
  13. If all has gone well, and you have now recovered to the new PC, then backup again to protect your investment in time and tears doing this!

Hi Steve, Thanks for your help on this but I have run in to numerous problems.

Everything fine upto 9.

Universal restore kept complaing about a device driver PCI\VEN_8086_&DEV_9C31&SUBSYS_B26119DA&REV_04 for windows 7.

Not really sure why it required this for Windows 7 when the system is running Windows 10 anyway but maybe an upgrade from 7 to 10 Issue, No matter what amount of googling I could not find any such driver even in my archieve of downloaded drivers for the PC. I am assuming its the  Intel® USB 3.0 eXtensible Host Controller Driver but no luck finding anywhere a B26119DA&REV_04.

I have now used a Windows 7 backup with Universal restore from and everything worked fine but to be honest that has put me back 1 year on the last backup that would work with the Universal restore.

Tried 7 Backups of windows 10 and Using universal restore but all failed with the same device driver issue.

I had not moved on to the second drive and just had the issue getting the OS to run.

If Ignoring the Error windows would then complain that the Boot manager could not load and would stop stating a device could not be loaded.

Hi Steve,

All restored now and working fine on Windows 10, turns out checking for BIOS in Detected Boot Environment was not correct and reading further down on your link I had a Legacy installed OS Shown as BIOS but actually the File system being used after win 10 update was UEFI system once I removed Legacy fromt he BIOS settings of the New PC I was able to restore both the Boot drive and the Data drive without using Universal restore Guessing the Systems were close enough the same to not cause any major issues.

Thanks.

Martin, glad to hear that you have got this all restored and working, thanks for the feedback.