

a screenshot of Minitool Partition Wizard, would be even better.īest Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Wizard Free How to Post a Screenshot of Disk ManagementĪs I mentioned before. and take a screenshot of Disk Management, and post it here. then boot the new computer to whatever OS works. If the old computer is no longer assembled. That's why I want the screenshot of Disk Management. You have a 500GB drive and a 4TB drive.which OSes are on which drives? There are many different versions of backups for W10 installations so I need to know how to restore in normal way. I did In-Place upgrade from W8 to W10 on the new machine. You may wonder how I could create W0 backup on the new machine. I could restore a W10 backup on the new machine but the backup was created on the new machine. The backup were created by the same utility(Acronis).

In my old machine(actually my current machine) W10, W8 and W7 are installed in a MBR style drive. So that I may opt for that option in the future.

There appears to be third party utility which allows converting MBR disk to GPT without loosing data. UEFI for GPT disks, Legacy for MBR disks. Then after restoring, you need to set the BIOS to match the partitioning scheme (GPT or MBR) used. If the backup was made of a GPT disk, you need to restore it to a GPT disk.same goes for backups made of MBR disks. The disk utility mentioned above allows restoring to a dissimilar hardware machine as shown under the following link:Īcronis True Image 2021: Restoring to dissimilar hardware with Acronis Universal Restore | Knowledge BaseĪnyone who has done what I am trying to do? I am presently pursuing a solution with MBR style system drives. The new system allows either GPT or MBR style drive. There was no problem restoring the W8 backup but the W10 fails to boot. I installed in the new machine, SATA SSDs, and M.2 NVMe SSDs. So the backups in the following means that created using the utility. I have been using a disk utility for quite some time to create backup images and restore them. I want to restore a W10 backup onto the new machine I assembled.

The old machine is FX6300 on Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 and the new machine is Ryzen 5 5600X on Gigabyte X570X AORUS Ultra.
