Universal Restore, Restoring to dissimilar hardware (Samsung Evo 960)
First, I want to make certain I'm going down the correct path. I'm needing to change-out a defective motherboard (same brand, but different model). According to the following article, it requires me to restore my image to my existing OS drive... do I have this correct?
This article is not entirely verbatim for the process using the bootable media builder.
Article: Acronis True Image 2020: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore | Knowledge Base
In the process of re-creating the bootable media (USB flash drive), it asks for drivers. I successfully added the sata driver for my new mobo, however, I'm having difficulty adding my Samsung Evo 960 SSD (M.2 NVMe pcie) driver. The driver only comes in an exe and decompressing it does not provide any driver files. Am I to assume that the PE media building process will auto add the correct drivers?


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Thanks @Steve. Yes, it is Windows 10 Pro 2004.
To clarify... I'm only replacing the mobo... all drives are staying the same. I'm confused about whether I need to restore my full disk image or not. The article states "Acronis Universal Restore is a free tool available for Acronis customers, which allows you to make the old system bootable on new hardware. This may be useful, for example, after replacing a failed motherboard or when deciding to migrate the system from one computer to another."
In reference to drivers... Using WinPE, I can successfully add my new mobo sata drivers, however, I'm having difficulty adding my Samsung Evo 960 SSD (M.2 NVMe pcie) driver. It sounds like though, I may be ok with Windows 10 handing hardware better.
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If you are just swapping the motherboard, then you may need to use ATI. I upgraded the motherboard on two Intel based PCs about two years ago and did not need to use Acronis for the installation.
I did use it subsequently to move the OS from a SATA drive to an M.2 NVMe drive, but that did not require anything other than Windows RE recovery media (the simple recovery media). Rather than cloning, many of us here prefer to do a backup and then recover it to the new drive. And that was what I did. Not something relevant here.
You may have a activation issue with Windows and some software, but that is not something Acronis can solve for you.
Ian
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Thanks @Steve. In your first sentence there, I believe you meant to state "...then you may NOT need to use ATI". It's interesting how the article flat out indicates to go through the restore process. I'll give it a go w/o ATI and see what happens.
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As it turns out, I did not need to restore any drive, nor even need the Acronis boot media. This was a breeze, as compared to do this in previous versions.
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Yep! Windows 10 is very good about changes in hardware these days.
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Glad that my expectation was correct - like thing to be simple.
Ian
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