Are there restriction on restoring?

In another forum, somebody claimed that if, e.g., a mobo was replaced, it might not be possible to restore the volumes in a backup archive.

Is this true?

Why?

Where documented?

 

It would be like restoring to different hardware - you might need Universal Restore unless the video card is re-used.

 

Changing a Motherboard or Moving a Hard Drive with XP Installed
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/moving_xp.html

 

Let me clarify.

I was asking about restoring volumes, not whether you could actually boot, that's a separate issue.

In another forum, somebody was claiming that one could not even restore the volume.

 

Sounds like nonsense to me.

And as far as booting goes, obviously driver/chipset incompatibilities can cause a machine not to boot following a restore. However I have had an amount of success transferring systems by either setting the video adapter to generic VGA before backing up, or (where required) using Windows Repair in order to get a machine to boot.

F.

 

It's possible that the person was refering to a scenario like this:
1. An image backup exists for the computer and restore works properly.
2. The motherboard dies and is replaced.
3. User boots from the Acronis Recue cd and it can't find any drives, errors on boot, locks up, keyboard/mouse doesn't work, etc.

In this sense, I suppose this person's statement would be correct. The change in the motherboard made it where you couldn't restore the image.

However, rarely is this situation permanent. There are driver updates, custom ISO's, BartPE plug-ins, etc. that get around problems such as these.

 

Yes, but he said that the files could not be restored, which sure betta bee utter nonsense. He probably meant what others have stated in this thread.

A number of years ago I did something entirely foolish, and it worke, but I'll never do it again.

I copied an OS volume to another volumel and MANUALLY edited the registry (10s of thousands of edits) and (un)instal files and ..., as well as modifing drive letter references.

A really dumb thing to do, but I got away with it. Over the years, AFAIK, I missed only 1 or 2 improper drive references.

I should have applied that luck to the stock market!