Stop: bios does not have acpi

[bfedwards]

hello, after imaging my old hd to another and then using the copy as a boot in the new computer, I find that the new bios is not recognized as having acpi. I have already installed a fresh w2ksp4 in one of the new sata drives...no problem there. And the copy drive works fine in the old computer...no problem there. I can add the image hd as a slave and access the files but that's not what I intended.

Old: asus 7v with W2K sp4 with ide drives
New: dfi cfx 3200 m2/g with w2k sp4 with sata drives + ide support

Must i manually reinstall the programs and drag the files across the hd's or is there a work around allowing the imaged drive to boot with the new MB?

PS i made the mistake of not disconnecting my imaged drive before rebooting the old computer and found my boot drive mislabled. Using a w98 boot floppy
and fdisk/mbr at the prompt, the boot sector was formated then rewritten by w2k on startup. Seems i've spent all day with this product........

thank you

bfe

[Acronis Support]

Hello bfedwards,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Disk Backup Software.

We are sorry for the delayed response.

Here is the basic scheme of transferring the operating system to a different hardware:

- Prepare your Windows for transferring using Microsoft System Preparation Tool (sysprep) as it is described in this FAQ article;

- Either create an image of the prepared Windows and then restore this image to the desired location or use Clone Disk wizard to transfer the entire contents of your old hard drive to the new disk;

- Try to boot as usual;

- If it does not boot then please do the following:
- Boot the computer from Windows 2000 Installation CD and run "fixmbr" command in Recovery Console;
- In case it still does not boot, perform Windows Repair Installation as it is described in Acronis Help Post.

Please be aware that we do not guarantee the successful transferring of your operating system to a different hardware. Actually, no one can guarantee this.

Please also notice that according to Acronis Licensing Policy you should purchase a copy of Acronis Product per computer it will be used on.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov