Amazed by Universal Restore

I just used the Universal Restore features included with the Acronis True Image 2013 Plus Pack and my hat's off to the developers of the feature. It worked exceptionally well and left me in a state of amazement with everything that it did.

I had a dual booting machine (Windows 7-64 bit and Windows 8-64 bit) running with a Intel I7-950 processor in it. The Windows 7 partition was running Acronis True Image 2012 so I made the backup of both partitions using that version of True Image. Then I used the ATI 2013 rescue disk and invoked the universal restore option when restoring the backup to the new system. The new machine has a AMD FX-8320 processor. The original machine had a SSD drive and the new system has a conventional 7200 RPM SATA 3 mechanical hard drive.

When the new machine was booted it looked and functioned exactly like the old machine except that it was now on AMD hardware instead of Intel.

The only issues I had were with windows licenses that had to be activated with new serial numbers and an issue with the license for Acronis True Image. Both of these issues were anticipated.