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Will it boot with another motherboard?
Hello
I am looking at using either the W7 built in or buying Acronis True Image. Suppse I clone my entire Hard Drive to an external USB Drive. Will the image boot even if I have changed motherboard or other hardware? I was under the impression that it will boot but with a lot of errors since the correct drivers for the chipset etc. aren't present so I can install the new ones later.
Acronis website claims that in order to do this I must buy their plus package add-on to the main program.
Also my Drive is C: and D: with W7 and all programs on C: Acronis claims that it clones the entire drive but it doesn't reserve space so the image will not be bigger than the actual data present so a 500 Gb C: partition (with 80 Gb taken) and a 500 Gb with (10 Gb taken) will only be a 90 Gb image. Is this true for the built in Windows image program as well? Maybe stupid questions but I am new to this.
I am not interested in on the fly backup of certain folders and other extras as Acronis claims to be capable of, only a complete image in the case of a catastrophical failure.