Universal Restore Problem from IDE to SATA

Hi there

Please please help - used workstation 9.1 to create image on old PC and stored this on usb external drive. Got a new PC with SATA drive (xp home preloaded). I installed worstation and universal restore on new PC and have external drive plugged in which it sees etc. During restore it has to reboot - OK, but when the Acronis boot loader screen comes up I just get a flashing cursor and doesnt proceed any further - after about 10 minutes the screen goes black and does nothing. The IDE drive was 20Gb the SATA is 160gb and I've set it to resize to the new drive

Have you guys any suggestion this is driving me crazy

 

I have never tried to restore a whole disk image onto itself, it is usually done offline using the ATI rescue CD.

I suggest making a bootable Rescue CD with universal Restore. Its in the manual and then follow the steps:

0. Attach external HD to the new PC and turn on power. Make sure to set the bios to boot from the cd drive.
1. boot from the rescue CD in the new Computer.
2. Select "Acronis .... w/Universal Restore (Full Version)"
3. Once at the GUI, do a restore and get the image from the external HD.
4. point the destination to your sata drive.
5. enable Universal Restore
6. and just go straight to the summary screen and click on proceed.

Now if by some bizarre instance that it doesn't work, or PC wont boot up after restoration; plan B would be that you have to provide the Sata RAID drivers after enabling Universal Restore.

 

Hello pcpoorlyltd,

Thank you for choosing Acronis Remote Workstation Disk Backup Software.

Please make sure you use the latest build (3887) of Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation. To get access to updates you should first register your software. Don't forget to recreate Acronis Bootable Rescue Media after updating.

If updating doesn't solve the problem, please try performing the restore operation using Acronis Bootable Rescue Media.

Thank you.
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Marat Setdikov