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Problems using ATI 2018 & Universal Restore

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Hi Everyone

I've put together a new PC with an Asus PRIME Z370-A mobo and an 8th gen Intel Core i7-8700 3.20GHz Coffee Lake Processor. I know windows 7 needs additional drivers but I will be upgrading to win 10 straight after.

I backed up my win 7 machine and made an Acronis boot disk with True Image 2018 & Universal Restore. I read the instructions wrong and I did Universal Restore first. After a re-read, I did it in the right order. I restored partition, MBR and system reserved but when booting from the hard drive, I got a win vista progress bar then win 7 loaded. I was the asked to restart and got chkdsk errors.

In BIOS I have 3 boot devices - the main HDD, DVD and boot loader?? - not seen this before.

Going to try a restore again after work, so when restoring, what options do I pick? And even if win 7 boots or hangs, will upgrade to win 10 be OK?

 

Hope this makes sense

Regards

Ian

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Ian, more questions more than answers at this point.

How does your source Windows 7 system boot - please run msinfo32 on that system and look at the BIOS mode setting - this will be either Legacy or UEFI.

If the BIOS mode is Legacy, then your new PC will need to boot in the same mode or else if you boot the Acronis Rescue Media in UEFI mode, your backup of Windows 7 will be migrated from MBR partitioning to GPT and will need to boot in that mode for Windows.

Do you have the option of upgrading your Windows 7 system to Windows 10 before doing this migration?  If yes, then this may be a safer route to go as Windows 10 has much better device support for newer hardware found in your new PC and can handle such changes better, often without the need to use Universal Restore.  There is an assumption here that both versions of Windows OS are the same architecture, i.e. both 64-bit ideally.

When doing the restore of your Windows 7 OS backup image to the new PC, you should be doing this at a Disk level, not choosing individual partitions (or omitting any).

See forum topic: [How to] recover an entire disk backup for help with doing a Disk level restore.

En réponse à par truwrikodrorow…

Hi Steve

Thanks for the reply. I'll try again tonight when I get home. Both are 64 bit so if I put my old drive into the new PC then do the win 10 upgrade - I think that's doable.

regards

Ian

 

Ian, if you want to do an in-place upgrade for Windows 10 then you need to be able to get to the Windows Desktop to run the upgrade setup.exe or else you will only have a choice of a new, clean install if booting from the Windows install media.