Recovery from clone made using 2013 version
Made several copies of HD using acronis 2013 and recovered several times - no problem
Three weeks ago HD failed, installed a new SSD in place of HD. No change in OS (windows XP SP3). Cannot recover using universal method. Any help to recover.

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Universal restore is not needed for hard drive replacement. You need to use the Recovery Media for that only.,
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Won't that wipe out the new drivers for the SSD since those drivers do not exist on the old backups on the external HD. The HD used the old HD
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No, there are no special drivers needed for an SATA SSD.
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Sorry for the followup. Recovery of the old image will return the old hardware profile and setup . Is this not correct.
How will the old image be used if the driver for the SSD is not present in the old image
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You keep refering to a driver for the SSD. The only driver involved here is that of the storage controller on the motherboard. That is a constant and by default can be driven by default Microsoft drivers. It is also OS dependent. Bottom line is that your SSD doesn't require a driver so Un iversal Restore is not needed at all. Just use the Acronis True Image Recovery Media to restore the backup image to the drive and that's it!
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SATA Spinning hard drive or SATA SSD are both SATA hard drives. They use the same SATA controller and hence, the same SATA driver. To the OS, there is no physical differences as far as connectivity or peformance is concerned. The performance difference is simplty that an SSD has no mechanical parts and uses faster flash memory and has it's own internal controller which makes it a faster/better hard drive.
You would only need to use Universal restore if your original spinning hard drive was connected via IDE and you were moving to SATA instead. Additionally, you would also have to change the SATA mode in the bios from IDE to SATA (AHCI usually) as well. If both drives are using a SATA interface, Universal Restore is not necessary.
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