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Restoring saved image from Laptop drive to new USB drive (IDE Drive connected with USB cabling)

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I have an image of my laptop drive saved on a removable drive; I'm trying to restore that image to a new laptop drive on another computer; the laptop is currently in another country, and the existing drive has died. My intent is to create a new drive with the image and sending it to the country where the laptop is located so that my contract worker can return to work using all the applications and configuration as last saved. I've placed the image on my desktop comoputer and want to restore it the IDE laptop drive connected via a USB connection. Acronis TIH 12 does not show the USB (IDE laptop drive) so am unable to restore the drive image to the new drive. Any suggestions?

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Your first problem is going to be that a different machine is likely to need different drivers, so you need the plus pack/universal restore to be able to make an image and restore it to another machine.

Your second problem is that, if the OS came with the laptop, then it's very likely that it is not transferable to anther machine -- Windows OEM licenses are like that.

Those issues notwithstanding, if you restore the image to another drive and remove the drive and do not boot up with it until int's in the new machine, then it will likely work.

There is no version called ati12 so I assume you are using ati 2012. If you are using a USB hub, try connecting he USB directly.

If ATI can see USB drives on your machine when backing up from within windows but not when operating for the bootCD, then the problem is likely a driver issue -- the linux environment on the bootCD doesn't have the right drivers to work with you USB ports.

The fix for this might be to get a version of the boocd that does have the right drivers. Tech should be able to provide you with an iso to burn a new bootcd that has different drivers.
The problem could als be that it's a usb 3 drive and ati might recognize it if you connect it to a usb2 port -- worth a try.