Restore System to Dissimilar Hardware with Universal Restore

What does universal restore can do for you? 

The feature, Universal Restore in Qiling Disk Master, allows you to restore operating system (OS) to a computer with dissimilar hardware. So you can recover your OS instantly in case of hardware failure and deploy the same operating system to many computers. You can also use it for other purpose, such as physical-to-virtual or virtual-to-physical migration.

To restore system to dissimilar hardware, you must ensure the items in the following.

1. You need to have a bootable media of Qiling Disk Master. (See Creating Qiling Disk Master bootable media.) If you don’t have a bootable media or the target computer doesn’t offer ports to insert a media, you can also use PXE Boot Tool to do the restoration. See How to use Qiling PXE Boot Tool?

2. You have prepared a system backup image before, and you can use Disk Master to find the image file easily. If not, please make a system backup now. See System Backup.

How to restore system to dissimilar hardware effortlessly

Step 1. Boot into Qiling Disk Master WinPE/Linux system using bootable media or PXE boot tool. 

Step 2. In the left tab page, select Restore, and then click Select Task to locate the system image file. 

Step 3. The system images will be listed in the window, please select a backup image to restore, and tick Universal Restore, then click Next.

Step 4. Select entire backup and destination location to store the image.

Step 5. Review Operation Summary Window. Please make sure that the option Universal Restore in the lower left corner is checked if you restore system image to dissimilar hardware, otherwise it will not be able to boot after restoring.

Step 6. Click Proceed to perform the operation.

For further details with screenshots, see How to restore operating system to dissimilar hardware.