Acronis True Image Home 2012: Assigning Installation to Another Machine

How to move an activated Acronis True Image Home 2012 license to a different machine

This article applies to:

Acronis True Image Home 2012

Introduction

In some cases it may be necessary to install your copy of Acronis True Image Home 2012 to another machine. If the number of installations exceeds the number of product licenses that you have, you need to move one of your existing installations to the new machine.

Solution

The process of transferring license to a new computer depends on whether the new machine is connected to the Internet. See appropriate section for instructions.

If the new computer is connected to the Internet

Install Acronis True Image on new machine. Go to Help -> Activate:
In the prompt that appears ("Too many activations") select Move license:
You will be forwarded to Acronis Activation website. Submit your login and password for your Acronis account (if you don’t have an account, click Create account to create it):
Choose computer from which you’d like to move your license (a list will be displayed):
(!) The product will be deactivated on the selected computer.
Restart the product on your new computer to apply changes.

If the new computer is not connected to the Internet

Install Acronis True Image on new machine. Go to Help –> Activate:
In the prompt that appears ("Failed to connect to the Acronis activation server") select Activate from another computer:
Save your installation code to file:
Transfer the file to the computer which is connected to Internet; open Activation page and load the installation code from the file:
Select Move license;
Submit your login and password from your Acronis account (if you don’t have an account, click Create account to create it):
Choose computer from which you’d like to move your license (the list will be displayed).

(!) Note that the product will be deactivated on the selected computer:
Note your activation code or save it to a file:
Transfer the activation code to the new computer where Acronis True Image Home 2012 is installed. Launch Acronis True Image Home 2012 and go to Help-> Activate, then again select the option Activate from another computer. The program will display Acronis True Image Home 2012 Activation window with installation code. Press Load from file to submit the activation code and press Activate: