Can I use image on other computer
Hi everyone , I want to ask a question and I hope someone will answer it. Thank you in front.
Is it posible to clean instal a OS (windows xp for example) on one computer together with all necessary programs and all other stuf for normal working but without drivers for that PC hardwere , then to make an image of the C drive ( where everything is instaled ) and than to use that image on another computer.
And if it is posible to do that is it it necessary C partition on the other computer to be the same size as the C partition of the computer where the image was made on.
Will the other computer ( instaled this way ) work as well as it was instaled the normal way.
...This is what Acronis likes to call a "Bare metal restore" although, Acronis, always favoring needless frills, prefers to add a hypen to the "bare metal." ;)....
The bare-metal restore is not an Acronis term but rather a general computer industry term referring to a disk (platter) with nothing on it.
Acronis is actually quite correct in hyphenating bare-metal restore because of the noun metal being used as an adjective. In the more obvious case of "small car factory"a hyphen is required to be clear. Does it mean small-car factory (factory that produces small cars) or small car-factory (a small factory that produces cars). So is it a case of bare-metal restore or a bare metal-restore. It can be argued that the hypen isn't 100% necessary because the term is somwhat jargon and is obvious to those in the know.
According to many of the modern arbiter of modern style as well as some older ones, the hypen is called for only when it might reasonably be confusing not to use the hypen, which is not the case with this phrase. I defer the Chigaco Manual of Style, The NY Times Manual of Style and Usage and, the old reliable Strunk and White.
The industry use denoting an isolate component (i.e., a component without any mounting hardware, connectors, etc.) is diff than Acronis's use to mean a computer irrespective of specific hardware in the computer. ATI cannot put an image on a bare metal hadisk, for example, the hard disk, with appropriate mounting hardware, etc must be installed in a computer to be imaged/restored by ATI.
I don't know how you got to an unconnected component since in the context of data restoration the term means "disk with nothing useable on it" not a "disk laying on the table with no connections". In either case, the disk can be in a bare metal state.
If, by the definition you presented, you meant a disk with no bytes written on it (other than perhaps than low level formatting), that doesn't come close to Acronis's use either.
Hello Igor,
Thank you for using Acronis Products
I may recommend you to have a look at Acronis backup & Recovery Workastation with Universal Restore for your purposes. Also have a look at Acronis Universal Restore http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/choose-trueimage/
Acronis Universal Restore is required to restore the image of Windows operating system to another hardware configuration. It the implementation of the unique technology developed inside Acronis that allows changing Windows Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL.dll) and device drivers. Acronis Universal Restore automatically detects if the HAL should be changed and also allows adding drivers for new hardware devices. This feature was designed for Corporate products and can’t be used with Home products.