Clone laptop to (almost) identical new laptop
My 2+ year-old Lenovo Yoga has a bad touchscreen - as near as I can tell, something in the hinges broke, so that the connection no longer functions... screen still works, just no touch. At certain angles of the lid, phantom touches appear and wreak havoc, but close the lid and connect monitor, keyboard, mouse and it's a perfectly good table/desk top. Ballpark repair estimates are in the $500+ range, and Lenovo owners seem to often experience lengthy delays in turnaround (3 to 4 weeks not uncommon), and then get their computers back with the drive in factory condition, all data and software gone... so I thought I'd clone it to a brand new one of the same model, and then (probably) repair it - I've been really pleased with it.
So, got my shiny new True Image 2018, installed it, ran the clone procedure to a 1TB USB 3 external, and I think I'm more or less ready to clone that to the new laptop. Both are 256G SDD, so there shouldn't be a problem there. The new one does have a faster CPU, but same size RAM, so I'd assume no problems there, either. It looks like all I need to do is unbox the new computer, set it to boot from the USB, plug the USB drive in, reboot, and... clone from the USB to the SDD, right? Right?
Figured it would be best to check the KB and forum, but I've not found the specific scenario, which just means I haven't figured out the right keywords to search, most likely.
My question is, what - if anything - am I missing?
Excellent. Thanks for this - far more detailed than I had hoped.
You're quite right about the OS - both are Win 10 Pro. I've not gone through all the features of Acronis, just jumped straight in with the disk clone, on the theory that it would be needed anyway. The new laptop is still in the box, so hasn't been cloned yet.
I'll have a chance to get on this later today, and will post steps and results here for the edification of all.
Thanks, many thanks.
Leo, please see KB 1540: Difference between Backup and Disk Clone - as there is a significant difference in what each of these does.
Also, would recommend that you boot the new laptop and let it be activated before attempting to migrate your other laptop OS backup to it as otherwise you may find you are running on a 30-day trial of Windows 10 Pro because the new hardware is not recognised.
Thanks again - I hadn't really thought about Win being tied to the specific box, but was anyway planning to start it and make sure everything works properly before trying to get things moved (or copied...) to it from the old one. The main ones are Ableton (music) and its associated software and data, which are also tied to the computer but not difficult to re-authorize.
Steve, a question about your list of steps...
I would have thought that step 2 should be first and then use the rescue media to create the backup of the old laptop as you have in step 1. What are your comments about this?
Bruno, given that the OP Leo already has a faulty laptop where the touch screen is sensitive to any movement as per his initial post, priority should be to have a good full backup. That backup could be created from the Windows ATI application or by using the Acronis Rescue Media, so step 2 may be redundant if Leo already has created / tested this.
There should be very little real difference between the backups created by either method, but the offline method requires a little more work to configure with the same options that are defaulted by the Windows application, i.e. exclusions - no email notifications etc.
Thanks, Steve. It sounds like Leo can easily turn it into a "perfectly good table/desk top" PC so the fault should not get in the way of getting a good backup. I was just wondering if creating the backup outside of the Windows environment would be better. Sounds like that would not be an issue.