Backup > Restore to Different Hardware
Backup images may contain drivers, registry information, and occasionally applications unique to particular hardware attached to the machine the backup image was made on. In the event of catastrophic hardware failure, you may need to restore a backup image to a machine with a completely different hardware configuration. The following steps guide you through a process that restores the image most of the time.
Note: Unique hardware configurations or vastly different hardware, may prevent successful image restore in limited cases.
Restoration: Image restore to different hardware follows the same steps used by Manual Recovery except you boot from a BartPE recovery disk instead of the Acronis Recovery Boot CD. Load the BartPE recovery media into the machine (instead of the Recovery Boot CD ISO image within Kaseya) and restart the computer.
Click here for instructions to create the BartPE recovery disk with the Acronis plug-in.
Download the Acronis plug-in for BartPE here.
Once the restoration is complete there are two paths to follow depending upon how the BartPE recovery media was built.
When restoration is complete, do not reboot the system. Remove the BartPE recovery media and replace it with the Windows system CD. Reboot and run a repair of the Windows installation.
If the third-party drivers were added to the BartPE recovery media, the first step is usually not necessary. Reboot after the recovery and the system should boot. If it does not boot, insert the Windows installation media and run a repair of the Windows installation.