Acronis 2019 Universal Restore
I am completely at sea. I have had Acronis 2019 for years now and dutifully made archives knowing that my old Dell system is wabbly. I bought a new machine and attempted the universal restore route which seemed to guarantee success. But no. I thought I had created a memory stick with the start-up media on it but when I accessed the drive I had a lot of negative message regarding:
Locally protected mode Kernel
Video mode setup error
Invalid frame buffer parameters
$module bootwiz blah-blah
...and so on.
My old PC is a Dell Studio
I run Windows 10 (and I think it is 32 bit)
The memory stick has copious storage available.
I am an author and the possibilities of my old machine dying seem very real and scary. I have a large financial outlay for my new machine but currently it might as well be a broken pencil.
I have tried instruction videos from the web and could not find anything specific.
I see lots of entries in Google that match the specifics of my experience but they are framed in technician language.
My ultimate question would be does anyone know of a solution to this specific occurrence?
or
If I update my Acronis to the latest product what are my chances then of getting a successful system build?
Would you please confirm how you followed.
The first step should always be to restore the backup to the new PC using the ATI recovery media. Once this is done you will be prompted if you need to use Universal Restore.
If you are using Windows 10 then in most cases, you will not need to resort to Universal Restore.
The only possible complication is when the new PC has an AMD CPU and the old one had an Intel CPU, or the other way around.
My old PC is a Dell Studio
I run Windows 10 (and I think it is 32 bit)
You can check whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit by looking at System > Properties - you need at least a Core 2 Duo CPU for 64-bit. I am still running a Dell Studio with Win 10 64-bit laptop that is used as a TV box with the BBC iPlayer app in a web browser.
One key factor is that your Dell Studio, if anything like mine, is a Legacy BIOS system, and any new computer will almost certainly be UEFI BIOS, so your backup from the Dell would need to be restored using Acronis rescue media booted in UEFI boot mode to allow the OS image to be migrated from Legacy / MBR to UEFI / GPT in order to work on the new system.
See KB 61632: Acronis True Image 2019: how to create bootable media
Also KB 61621: Acronis True Image 2019: How to restore your computer with WinPE-based or WinRE-based media
Acronis True Image 2019: how to restore to dissimilar hardware | Knowledge Base
Dear Acronisms, I took my computer to see the technician at my local shop and with the help of the lovely thread people and Acronis technical staff we think that we have found the problem (and thanks to those who raised a flag). My Dell machine is a 32 bit system and my new (super, with coloured lights) 'Overclockers' machine is 64 bit. After much head scratching I now have a system a working system (not this one, I haven't paid for the technicians intervention yet, he still has my new PC). The big problem is that I will have to regenerate many of my applications on the new system and as a few of them are legacy products I may not have the wherewithal to do that. So, the point seems to be, that Acronis was not the answer to a maidens prayer that I thought it to be. I was sold on the ease of porting the system to a different system (perhaps I didn't read the fine print). This has been an emotional few days.. I paid for a new machine which at one stage looked as though I might not be able to use. I had an old PC that was dying by inches while expecting any moment to be in receipt of the final proof of my novel for finalisation, what a drama. The Acronisms have been lovely, encouraging and helpful and I thank you all. But to lose some of my applications is a bit tough. I shan't scrub this off the thread until I get my new machine back and have first-hand knowledge of the actual system that has been recovered. Thank you.
Malcolm, if you have a backup image of your old 32-bit Dell system, with its legacy applications etc, then there is an option open to you that might save some headaches!
The option is to restore the backup image to a Hyper-V or VMware Virtual Machine disk that could then be run on the new PC.
I use this same approach on my main 64-bit system running Windows 11 where I can run a selection of different VM's with older versions of Windows. I currently have VM's covering all the main OS versions from Win 95 through to Win 11 with just one missing (Win 8.1) that I never used directly.
See my video on YouTube showing the process for doing the above.
I agree with Steve Smith that the least pain solution would be to create a virtual machine.
Ian