Acronis True Image Home 2013 - Need to Restore
Hello,
I have 3 copies of Acronis True Image 2013 Home.
One of those computers crashed and the motherboard is bad. We need to restore to dissimilar hardware. How do I accomplish that now, I did not previously own universal restore?
Can I buy it? Does it come on a restore cd? Can I purchase it for one of my other licenses and then make a bootable cd?
How can I restore to dissimilar hardware, how do I acquire universal restore when a hard drive functions, but the tower does not?
Thanks!!
Keith


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You're probably out of luck for 2013 since it's deprecated and support is only available for 2 years from product release (starting with 2015 and newer). You should contact Acronsi technical support to see if they can still sell you the add-on for 2013 though.
If not, UR is included in 2017 and should be able to get a discounted upgrade and build UR recovery media. You can create UR to .iso, burn to disc or to a flash drive with the UR media creation tool.
UR is not the end-all, be-all for dissimilar hardware. Acronis makes it possible, but bios settings, features and limitations with newer systems can be a sticking point. As an example, I'm sure your existing system backup is from a legacy/bios computer. If you were to buy a new computer, it is likely to be UEFI/GPT. If the system bios allows you to enable CSM\legacy support and the new drive is formatted to legacy/MBR and not bigger than 2TB, then techncially, you should be able to restore your image, run UR agains it and be on your way - the bios settings are all up to you to figure out though.
This was a lot easier when all computers were legacy/MBR - and now more convulted since UEFI/GPT is becoming the norm.
Also what type of OS license - if it's OEM on the old one and/or an older version of an OS not supported on newer hardware (no drivers) those can be other sticking points. As an example, Surface Pro 4 only works with Windows 10 - you'l never get a working version of Windows 8.1 or earlier on it. And you can get it running (but without necessary drivers for thigns like toucscreen), even then, if you only had an OEM license on the old machine, it isn't going to license on the new one.
There's more good info using UR here: Sticky: Great Acronis "How-To" videos and other Acronis Resources
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