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From: Chris on 27 Nov 2007 23:22 I read something on acronis website that seemed to mention that you could only restore an image on hardware that was the same as when you imaged the hd. I checked acronis website and couldn't find any mention of this so perhaps this was for version 10 and not 11 which is whats on the website now. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not, I'm still using version 9 and didn't know if it had the same issue. Thanks, Chris
From: Rod Speed on 28 Nov 2007 02:53 Chris <chris95008(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > I read something on acronis website that seemed to mention that you could only > restore an image on hardware that was the same as when you imaged the hd. You are remembering that wrong. > I checked acronis website and couldn't find any > mention of this so perhaps this was for version 10 Nope. > and not 11 which is whats on the website now. > Can anyone confirm if this is true or not, Not. > I'm still using version 9 and didn't know if it had the same issue. No version does.
From: Rob Nicholson on 28 Nov 2007 06:34 >> I read something on acronis website that seemed to mention that you could >> only >> restore an image on hardware that was the same as when you imaged the hd. > > You are remembering that wrong. Not exactly wrong - you can restore an data image to another system usually without a problem. However, restore an operating system image to alien hardware is fraught with danger. It should work but do it at your own risk. Certainly don't try it with anything before Windows XP. Changing the entire hardware between reboots (which is what you are doing effectively) is madness ;-) Rob.
From: Rod Speed on 28 Nov 2007 17:01 Rob Nicholson <rob.nicholson(a)nospam_informed-direct.com> wrote: >>> I read something on acronis website that seemed to mention that you could only >>> restore an image on hardware that was the same as when you imaged the hd. >> You are remembering that wrong. > Not exactly wrong Yep, its nothing like as black and white as that. > - you can restore an data image to another system usually without a problem. So the original is just plain wrong. > However, restore an operating system image to alien hardware is fraught with danger. Nope, the worst you have to do is a repair install after the image has been restored to different hardware. > It should work but do it at your own risk. There is no risk at all, it just wont boot if the hardware is different enough and a repair install will fix that. > Certainly don't try it with anything before Windows XP. You've got that backwards. Its the NT/2K/XP family that has the problem. The Win9x/ME family was always much happier to have the hardware changed behind its back and be able to handle that gracefully. > Changing the entire hardware between reboots (which is what you are doing effectively) is madness ;-) Nope, trivial to do with the OSs that have a repair install.
From: Franc Zabkar on 1 Dec 2007 18:42
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:22:22 -0800 (PST), Chris <chris95008(a)yahoo.com> put finger to keyboard and composed: >I read something on acronis website that seemed to mention that you >could only restore an image on hardware that was the same as when you >imaged the hd. I checked acronis website and couldn't find any >mention of this so perhaps this was for version 10 and not 11 which is >whats on the website now. Can anyone confirm if this is true or not, >I'm still using version 9 and didn't know if it had the same issue. > >Thanks, >Chris http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronis_True_Image "Images of computers running Microsoft Windows cannot simply be restored to different hardware as the hardware-dependent Microsoft Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) drivers are embedded within the image; Linux systems do not have this problem. Universal Restore is an add-on utility for True Image Enterprise Windows versions that replaces the HAL drivers embedded within the image during the recovery process, allowing an image of a machine to be restored to different hardware." http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISWin/universal-restore.html - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |