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(NEWBIE) I want to move from Win 7 to another laptop with Win 7

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I recently bought a DELL laptop and I used MS Easy Transfer to move my files, etc. I then reloaded all my software. Total time about 8 hours. But I really dislike Dell (another topic) and have decided to return the laptop and go with a different manufacturer.

Is there a backup with Home 2010 that I can do before returning the laptop that will allow me to restore my system onto my new machine?

I should mention that I will be going from 7 Pro to 7 home premium.

I am really trying to not have to reload/download all my software again.

Thanks,

Pete

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Unfortunately, restoring a backup from one computer to another different computer (unlike restoring a backup in the same computer but on a new disk), is a pretty hard thing to do.
Acronis provides a Plus Pack to add to ATI to enable Universal Restore. This is not for the faint of heart, but is something worth trying before to having to reinstall the OS, the apps and transfer the content.

Unfortunately also, it will be hard for you to buy the Plus Pack for 2010, since this is not the latest version. The Plus Pack version needs to be of the same version as the main program.

If I were you I would simply reinstall my applications.

Pat L has explained the hardware/driver issues. However, when you restore an image to another machine you totally overwrite the existing contents of the partition with what was on the imaged partition. In your case, your Windows you end up with will not be the new machines Win 7 Premium but will be the Dell Win7 Pro which means you have a licensing issue not to mention what a Dell OEM version might have had fudged in it. If it is like some OEM machine specific versions it might not even run at all on a non-Dell machine.

Pat's advice to reinstall the applications is the simplest way to deal with the situation and you won't have to wonder if it was your forcing the old image onto the new machine that is causing some obscure problem.