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Acronis restore to different hardware5/25/2023 ![]() Note - I know I could in future just keep a Winclone backup on the NAS, but then I'd lose the ability to extract individual files from the backup, and also I'd be backing up the entire partition each time, rather than just the changes. So, Is there a more direct way of doing this? Could Target Disk mode help (thunderbolt, remember.) Now, while this worked, and the bootcamp partition was successfully re-added to VmWare fusion, it feels like a really long-winded way of doing it. Restore the WinClone image onto the FAT partition.It’s not exactly common knowledge that Acronis True Image can restore to dissimilar hardware. Step 1: Backing up your system partition to a USB hard drive 1. Restore Windows 10 to different hardware with Acronis True Image Acronis True Image is one of the best PC backup full disk image software to be used for your Windows 10 device and not only. Ive performed this task once with Acronis TrueImage on an SBS server using the Universal Restore option and it worked perfectly. Create a FAT partition on the Macbook SSD Restoring the backup to a machine with dissimilar hardware.Create a WInClone image file from the USB disk (slow.).Install WinClone on the Mac ($20 well spent.).Recover the bootcamp partition to the USB disk.Installed Acronis trial version on a 'real' PC.The Acronis Recovery CD won't run on a Mac, apparently (and, I have no superdrive.)Īfter some thought and experiment, here's what I ended up doing The replacement for my dead Macbook Pro Retina arrived yesterday, and the Mac side of things was restored from a Synology NAS in 30 mins, which was great.īut on the BootCamp partition, it's a different story: I was using Acronis TrueImage for my Windows backups, and a recent backup was indeed sitting happily on the NAS - but, how to restore it? ![]()
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