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Universal Restore boot disk not working? Windows wants to run windows repair

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I am attempting to port my system over to new hardware (new Motherboard and processor). I made a universal restore boot disk with the proper drivers for the motherboard, reconfigured my hardware, and started up, telling the computer to boot from my boot disk. I initially ran into an error 0xc00000e9 saying that there was an in-out error (this seems to have gone away after I turned off an external drive) and afterwards I am given the choice to go into startup repair, which doesn't seem to connect with Acronis software at all (or have any success starting the system). Should I say to start normally in hopes that the Acronis software will then kick in?

Is there a way to tell if it's actually even booting from the boot disk or skipping over (perhaps the boot disk failed to be created properly) and going to my hard drive?

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The Universal Restore boot disk should start the Acronis Universal Boot program. See the screenshot attached. Then you run the program to inject the new drivers into Windows.

If the Linux boot disk is not booting properly and starting the program, you will need to use a WinPE Universal Restore boot disk. At this time, the Universal Restore boot disk creator is not making a working WinPE version. It boots and shows an error window when the program is supposed to run. When the error window is closed, the computer reboots. I was able to get the program to run in MustangPE. See the sticky topic in this forum for a guide to create a MustangPE disk.

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Univeral restore doesn't work for windows users? Or can you use the Linuxstyle boot disk to restore your windows system? I'm confused and the product documentation is not especially helpful in this regard.

You can use the Linux version of Universal Restore on a Windows system. From your post it appears the Linux version will not successfully boot on your system. This can happen due to your hardware not being supported by the Linux disk. It has nothing to do with Windows. What I am trying to tell you is if the Linux UR boot disk is able to boot, you will see the program run as I have shown in the attached screenshot.

Thank you. I'd actually been using a Windows PE disk (which didn't work). I'll try Linux, then the other system.

And now I am really confused. I made a Linux PE disk. I tested it with my existing system and it worked. I did the hardware swap. The boot disk now boots, I get an acronis window giving me the option to go into universal boot, true image, system report, or continue to OS like it should. Then I click on universal boot and the drive goes for a while, I get an acronis splash screen, then the computer reboots.

The documentation for this software is among the least useful I've ever seen. With a tech support guy on chat he said we had to restore a backup onto the target drive before running universal boot and putting in the new motherboard driver. But then the restore failed because the backup was corrupt. So I reversed my hardware, did a new back up, validated it, and tried again. Failed (with an error that just says "restore operation failed" - nothing more - I feel sorry forthe poor tech support guys if that's the most information a customer is going to be able to give them). Am currently validating the backup again to see if the backup someohow got corrupt in the 5 minutes between when I finished it and when I shut down the computer for the hardware change.

I am hard pressed to name a piece of software that has given me the problems this one has. At first it wouldn't install (there was a problem with a registry key that a tech support agent couldn't resolve after 4 hours including remotely accessing the computer - I was finally able to resolve it and install), then the first boot disk I made based on their instructions didn't work, and now that I've got a working (I think) boot disk, the backup restore operation doesn't work (and oddly the backup validation file doesn't seem to work - the first time it instantly identified the backup as corrupt, but when I was testing the new backup I tried to validate from the boot disk interface and literally nothing happened - no progress bar, nothing). So far the only thing that worked was cloning my original hard drive to a larger one that I intended to use as my main. Only problem is that I've had to reformat that drive several times in the couple of days I've been trying to make the rest of the migration work. I'd mind less if I was going from one computer to another rather than having to swap out the motherboard (and reconnect everything) each time.

I'll make one last attempt to explain this and help you.

There are three options available to make a Universal Restore boot disk:

1. Make a Linux based CD from the Acronis UR media creator.

2. Make a WinPE based CD from the Acronis UR media creator.

3. Make a WinPE based CD from MustangPE following this guide https://forum.acronis.com/forum/71918 .

Option 1 failed for you because the Linux based CD did not support your hardware. This is very common.

Option 2 fails because Acronis made an error in the UR media creator. It does not work for anyone.

This leaves you with option 3. If you are not willing to use it, there is nothing more I can help you with.