
After recovery, start your new computer once again and use Universal Restore to make the restored system bootable on the new hardware. Connect Acronis Bootable Media to your computer and restart the computer. You need this media to restore from your backup and apply Universal Restore afterwards to make your old system bootable on new hardware. Validate the backup you want to restore from. Restore to dissimilar hardware procedure: This may be useful, for example, after replacing a failed motherboard or when deciding to migrate the system from one computer to another. I tried to do the PHONE SUPPORT from Acronis web page, and I called all 3 offices, only to receive a recorded message "The person is not available".Restoring to dissimilar hardware is not available on Mac (neither for OS X, nor for the Bootcamp partition).Īcronis Universal Restore is a free tool available for Acronis customers, which allows you to make the old system bootable on new hardware. In using the TRIAL version, I have attemped over and over to enter "SERIAL" number, which I do not have. I have "KEYS" for all versions except for the 2017 "FREE" version. However it has been reinstalled onto my new computer as a "TRIAL" version. I have gone to the Acronis Cloud storage and downloaded Acronis True Image 2017.
I have backups of my software from the old computer stored on Acronis Cloud. I decided to upgrade to a new Dell XPS8900 computer.
Everything was going well for sometime, and then my Dell Vostero computer had a hard drive crash. Some time after purchasing True Image 2016, I elected to install the "FREE 2017 Version". I can npt locate a disk for the 2016 version.