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Back up the whole hard disk drive to an external USB Hard drive;
Create Acronis Bootable Media;
Restore the backup from external USB Hard drive using Acronis Universal Restore.
Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows with Acronis Universal Restore
Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server with Acronis Universal Restore
Acronis True Image for Microsoft Windows Small Business Server with Acronis Universal
Restore
(!) Acronis True Image Home does not support Acronis Universal Restore.
This document contains step-by-step instructions on how to migrate your system to a machine
with dissimilar hardware.
The entire migration process described here consists of the following steps:
2. In the main window of the program click Backup to start the Create Backup Wizard:
3. On the welcome screen click Next:
4. Click My Computer to create a backup of the whole hard disk drive or the system
partition, including all the data and partition structure:
5. On the Partitions Selection screen select the partitions or the whole hard disk drive you
want to back up:
(!) If you are not going to back up the whole hard disk drive, make sure you back up the
system partition.
6. On the Source Files Exclusion screen you can exclude files from the backup archive:
7. On the Backup Archive Location screen select your external USB hard disk drive:
8. On the Select Backup Mode choose Create a new full backup archive:
9. On the Choose Backup Options screen select to go with the default options or set the
options manually:
10. On the Archive Comments screen put any information about the backup that you might
find useful:
11. On the final screen check the summary of the planned operation and click Proceed to
start the backup:
12. After you click Proceed the backup process will start:
13. After the backup process completes successfully you will the notification:
1. On the right pane of main window of the program click Create Bootable Resue Media:
2. On the welcome screen of Acronis Media Builder click Next:
3. On the Rescue Media Contents Selection check Acronis True Image Echo [Edition] with
Acronis Universal Restore (full version):
4. On the Bootable Media Selection screen choose your CD burner and insert a blank CD:
You can also select ISO Image if you wish to burn the ISO to a CD later or use it to boot
your Virtual Machine.
5. On the final screen click Proceed to create Acronis Bootable Rescue CD:
You can download the drivers for your motherboard on the Vendor's web-site. Please note, if
you downloaded the drivers in *.exe, *.cab, *.zip format, you should extract them first.
1. Boot the machine to which you are going to restore the backup from Acronis Bootable
Rescue CD. (Remember to set the primary boot device to CD-ROM in BIOS to make the
machine boot from the CD).
7. On the Restored Partition Location select the target partition or unallocated space to
which the backup will be restored:
8. On the Restored Partition Type set the type Active for your system partition:
If you do not set the type Active for your system partition, the machine will not boot.
9. If you selected to restore only one partition instead of the whole hard disk drive, you
will see the Restored Partition Size window that will let you set the size for the restored
partition:
10. On the Next Selection screen choose No, I do not if you are not going to restore other
partitions at this time:
11. On the Acronis Universal Restore screen select Use Acronis Universal Restore:
12. On the Specifying Mass Storage Drivers screen click Add to specify drivers:
The recommendation is to specify the drivers manually. Hardware Vendors usually
provide separate drivers for SCSI or RAID controllers. IDE or SATA drivers are usually
included into the chipset drivers for the motherboard.
The HDD controller drivers are critical for booting the operating system. Specifying
drivers for other devices (video/sound card) is not recommended. Once you restore and
boot the system, you can update all other drivers manually in Windows Device Manager
(Start -> Run -> devmgmt.msc).
13. On the Select File screen point to the exact driver file for the HDD controller:
14. Select the driver that will be used:
15. On the Restoration Options screen you can check both options: Search removable
media for device drivers and Search device drivers in the following locations:
Acronis Universal Restore will search the checked options if some drivers are missing.
16. In Additional settings you can also check Change SID after the restoration is finished:
If this option is enabled, the SID will be automatically changed after the restore.
17. On the final screen you can check the summary and click Proceed:
18. The restore process will start.
(!) If Acronis Universal Restore detects unsupported devices (i.e. devices critical for
booting, the drivers for which are missing), it will ask for the necessary drivers:
To identify the device by its PCI ID, refer to http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
If the driver is still not accepted, it should be checked if it is the correct one by using a
Windows installation CD and hitting F6. See Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 314859
If after the restore the machine does not boot correctly, please boot in Safe Mode (hit F8) and
check the drivers in Windows Device Manager.