How to recover with Acronis Universal Restore 

It works perfect. Please Read. I had a hard drive with 5 operating systems, Win 7, 8.1, Vista Ult, XP Pro, and XP Media Cent in a DEll 5150 Intel who's motherboard died a few days earlier. All files on the drive were still there. I had a Compaq Presario AMD to experiment with. My searching on how to install an existing Windows installation onto a different motherboard led me to Acronis Universal Restore, which led me to AcronisTrueImage2017 NG iso. I wanted to restore the Vista Ult on the harddrive. With the harddrive in, the Acronis cd in, I booted to Acronis. It said Starting Acronis Loader, then within 10 seconds a screen with options popped up for a couple seconds then it went straight to my normal windows boot menu. I choose Vista Ult and it actually booted to my same desktop. There were a lot of found new hardware messages. I just let it do its thing. While this was going on I checked system properties, it was still activated. In the istalling device drivers popup there were at least 20 items installed requiring restart, this was within 5 minutes of the boot. I didn't know what to expect after I restarted, but it did restart to the Vista Ult I knew. It was still genuine. The only thing I had to get was the soundcard driver, which I did. It all works fine. The whole process was automatic, I just selected Vista Ult from my boot menu.I did not have no image to create, just the iso on the cd. Acronis worked perfect.

As somebody who did Small Business IT support for years on his own, I must thank you for this tool. It made life so much easier!

i could have used this 10 hrs ago... but thankfully i found it and it worked, JOB DONE thanks acronis.

Wow it worked using Acronis 2019 this time! I tried this years ago unsuccessfully and really needed to do this on an office pc I built to save hours of restoring apps/data. I created the boot media using the Linux selection, didn't add any drivers, inf's or sys files. Just did the basic build and restored my image onto a NVMe M.2 hard drive and all booted up!

Followed exactly as directed, and PC wont boot, and I cannot get to recovery console.

but i have a problem in select the media option my external hard disc is hidden in this section what will i do ???

So for me, I was moving a HD from a dead computer, to a new computer. All I had to do was: 1. Create the bootable media from Acronis Universal Restore as shown in this video (left it on defaults) 2. Download my chipset drivers, and USB controller drivers to the same USB drive I put the Universal Restore on (AUR did ask me for these when I didn't have them on there, so I copied them to the drive). You may have to extract the files from the files, and even then you may have to move the appropriate files from the WIN10 or WIN7 folder to the USB root after the extract. 3. Boot from the USB drive 4. Select Universal Restore 5. Add my USB drive as a 'Automatic driver search' location (not sure if I had to do this -- probably not...) 6. Click OK and let the process do its thing After taking out my USB drive and rebooting, I was able to boot into my Windows drive (after crashing everytime on the windows logo before that). The video can be confusing as it seems to describe certain instances for the restore, but I know a lot of people will need it as I did.

I want to switch my Motherboard, but no other components, do i need the drivers from my GPU etc too, or only the chipset drivers?

Genius!

Why is there no 'Deleting Partition' on the Finish tab where (5:41) you describe that "The sizes of the Deleting Partitions and Recovering Partitions must match!"

10 years ago acronis is much more simpler and i succeeded in universal restore at that time. Now wft why it is much more complicate? Is it because window 7 try to prevent Acronis from working? Can old version of acronis is usable with window 7?

Very good video. Very much appreciated. However, I have still not gotten it to run. It hangs and then restarts the pc. Anyone know of a more detailed video?

1:00 0 Table of Contents 1:02 1 How Acronis Universal Restore works 1:52 2 How to prepare to recorver 2:16 2-I Disk-level backup of your system disk or Entire PC backup 2:28 2-II Bootable media with Acronis True Image and Acronis Universal Restore 4:01 2-III Extracted drivers for new hardware 4:43 3 How to recover your sysytem to a new computer 4:46 3-I Make the bootable media the first boot device in BION 4:50 3-II Boot from the bootable media 4:45 3-III System Image Recovery using Acronis Ture Image 5:59 3-IV Drivers substitution using Acronis Universal Restore

Im tryng to use a Getac image on a Dell but it does not recognize any OS, so it doesn't work! any idea?

I would like to have step-by-step instructions

2:43 in the Wizard Title: Boot or Boost !

I'm assuming this would be done on a clean OS install? I'm switching mobos. so the boot drive will be the same. Will this process move Windows as well? When do I install the mobo drivers? Will the mobo cd have hd controller drivers?

Hmmm sounds bloody complicated. Not sure I want to rely on this.. is it reliable?

How can you determine what the correct disk drivers are?

Is this only adding new drivers to the new machine or does it also remove the drivers from the old hardware?

installed the trial: NOTHING of that crap works. It NEVER get's the bootable media installed, no drivers, etc.

4:59 It gives me "Archive no supported" error when trying to choose revory files (.tib)

chipset drivers often come in an .exe. no way to extract .inf or others from that. what do you do in this case? does intel (or others) have a .inf (etc) version somewhere on their site for the usual chipsets?

If i have a acronis backup with acronis 2011 Then if bootable cd not work then Can we recover the same backup with acronis 2021

So basically you have to be an IT pro to figure this shit out. I'm still confused after watching this. I have my old hard drive going into a new computer, and I don't want to wipe everything on it. I just want to boot to my disk and be done. It looks like this does some kind of restore to it.

how about restore to the same computer, will this work?

*Acronis* Is it possible to restore a backup to an external disk and then install this external disk into my laptop (target) and boot normally? The backup originates from the target Laptop.

So far NOT impressed!! I followed these steps to the T and the Universal Restore will not find an OS

VERY COMPLICATED EXPLANATION, I just want to back up my PC to an image and in case I can not boot anymore due any problem, to be able to restore the image! I notice too many type of programs and stuff that make this process from Acronis very difficult for not savvy hardware stuff! what a pitty

Use Drive Clone Pro instead, it Support to boot in different computers..

Complicated as fk

This sounds pretty flaky. In the past, I've physically moved Windows C-Drives to different machines and it always has worked. Windows has gotten pretty robust. In this case, I'm going to a different type of drive so I have to do it "non-physically." I'm going to make an image of my new PC's C-drive, make an image of my old PC's C-drive, and then restore my old PC's C-drive image onto my new PC's C-drive. If it doesn't work, then I'll restore the new PC's C-drive and put all the old programs in one-by-one. That would be safer and easier. And before restoring the image, I'll make screen caps of all the new PC's settings so I can re-set the ones that seem more appropriate to the new PC.

Acronis TI technical support is not good at all; it proposes the new versions but does not answer any question, for example: if I ask if, after removal of a partition, ATI will be able to format it (in NTFS) in order to re-install Windows 10: NO ANSWER! It says to uninstall a version (2016) to install ATI 2019. Oh yes? And how can you uninstall a program on a system that is "broken"? (.. Very bad technical support. In addition they propose to install a trial version with which one can NOTHING to do.From now on, I will use another software!

WOW... did these guys ever FUCK UP this software! I used to use Acronis religiously and they have absolutely butchered it since the release of the 2014 version! I don't know WHO was in charge of the front end but it is now the most confusing piece of backup software that I've ever used. Don't take my word for it though, have a look around for reviews... 'Dismal' to say the least.

this video doesnt explain anything at all. is windows 10 Linux based? if not, i'd have to chose windows PE, then i get a list down there with windows PE 2.0 media, windows PE 2.1, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, AND NONE OF THEM SAYS its fow Windows 10! i cant click next till i download one of the above. This acronis Unversal Restore is useless.

The video runs too fast for you to understand it. It assumes you already are an IT expert. The video is not well coordinated with the audio. What a waste of time.

the robot voice makes it difficult to know when a sentence has ended or not

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my external hard disc is not showing up in select media option look like hidden