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When a dynamic spanned volume is recovered over a dynamic striped volume the target volume
remains striped
11.4 Using Acronis Universal Restore
Using Acronis Universal Restore (provided by separately purchased Acronis Plus Pack) will help you
create a bootable system clone on different hardware (for more information see Acronis Universal
Restore (p. 24)). Choose this option when restoring your system disk to a computer with a dissimilar
processor, different motherboard or a different mass storage device than in the system you originally
backed up. This may come in handy, for example, after replacing the failed motherboard or when
deciding to migrate from a desktop to a laptop. You can use Acronis Universal Restore for restoring
your system disk both from tib and vhd files. In most cases you will need to use bootable rescue
media.
Acronis Universal Restore is unavailable when recovering the system partition from an Acronis Nonstop Backup
archive.
To restore your system with the help of Acronis Universal Restore:
1. Make your rescue media the first boot device in BIOS. See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS (p.
185).
2. Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home (Full version).
3. Click the My Disks link below Recover on the Welcome screen to start the Recovery Wizard and
then choose the image of the system disk for recovery. As drive letters in the standalone Acronis
True Image Home may differ from the way Windows identifies drives, you may need to specify
the path to the image file by clicking Browse and selecting the disk and folder that stores the
image.
4. Choose Recover whole disks and partitions and select the Use Acronis Universal Restore box.
5. If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller (such as an SCSI, RAID, or Fibre
Channel adapter) for the hard disk(s), specify where to find the driver(s) for the specific hardware
at the Drivers manager step. If the driver(s) is stored on a diskette or CD, select the Search
removable media for device drivers box. If some drivers are stored on a local hard disk or a
network share, select the Search for device drivers in the following locations box (when it is not
selected by default), and specify the path to the driver(s) after clicking Add Search Path.
When the both boxes are selected at this step, Acronis Universal Restore will use three sources
for drivers:
- the removable media;
- the drivers storage folder(s) specified at this step; and
- the Windows default driver storage folders (in the image being restored).
The program will find the most suitable of all available drivers and install them into the restored
system.
6. At the What to recover step select the system partition, then specify the settings for the target
partition (new system partition). Make sure that the partition type is primary and active. Usually
you do not need to change the partition size which will be assigned automatically.
7. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you do not want to validate the
backup, click Proceed, otherwise click Options on the sidebar and select the "Validate backup
archive before recovery" box before clicking Proceed.
During restore the program may be unable to find some driver(s) in the specified folders and display
an error message(s). In such case you can click Ignore to continue restoration or Cancel to cancel the
process, then try to find the required driver and repeat restore.
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