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Install True Image to New Computer or Old?

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I will be receiving my new computer soon and was wondering if I should install True Image on the old one or the new one so I can move old files to the new computer? I don't want to mess up the transition, but it would seem like True Image should go on the new computer. Any procedural advice would be appreciated by this computer novice. Thank you.

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I would use the 2013 Rescue Media (CD/DVD/USB Flash drive) and create a full disk image of the new system before doing anything else. This would be a base image to keep for system recovery/re-install or problem resolutions in the future.

Additionally, to move your existing users account(s) to the new system keeping your files and settings, you can use Windows "Easy File Transfer" to make a backup of the original system's users account(s) and files (selectively or in total) and use it again on the new system to have it restore/create the account(s) and users settings you wish to move.

The applications on the old system would have to be (of course) installed on the new system. After getting everything up and running, create another image of the new system using the 2013 Rescue Media, and then install 2013 on the new system.

If the Windows Easy Transfer did not move everything you needed, you could make a image of the old system using the 2013 Rescue Media, and then use 2013 on the new system to restore any additional files/folders you may need from the backup image of the older system.

Thank you James for the help. I probably should have mentioned that my 6+ year old computer is running Win XP Pro and I have already cloned drive C to an outboard HD using the free version of Acronis. How does this information effect the equation?

Depends on if you truly have "clone" or a backup image of your older system. If it is a clone, you have a duplicate of your existing hard disk. If you used True Image to create a full disk backup image, you will have one or more .tib files on the "outboard" hard disk.
If it is truly a clone, you could connect the drive to your new system (if possible) and just copy the files you need from the "outboard" drive to your new computer (remembering you can only move/copy data files). It you have made a disk image backup to the "outboard" drive, you could connect it to the new system, and using the bootable Rescue Media or the installed version of 2013, restore any data files and folders from the backup image you need to your new system.

I used Acronis True Image WD Edition's "Clone Disk Mode" to transfer everything on my old system to the outboard hard drive, that is, if the program was working properly. I looked for files ending in .tib, but did not find any on the outboard hard drive, so what does that mean? Will I be able to transfer programs from old to new computer or will I have to download and install those programs again from scratch? My new computer will be a Lenovo M82 with Windows 7 Pro and XP Mode.

Thank you for your invaluable help.

When you use "clone" mode, the software makes a duplicate copy of the source drive to a second drive. It is only current at the time of the "clone".
There will not be any .tib files( unless your source drive contained some), as it is just a "copy" of your original drive.

Although there are methods to transfer your installed programs (Lap Link's PC Mover is one), it is always better to do new installs of any applications you wish to run on a new system. This gives you a good "clean" starting point.

Since you have a "copy" of your hard disk, you can use Windows Explorer to copy the data files you need on your new system from your "outboard" hard disk by connecting it to your new computer.

You may want to create a new "clone" or backup image of your older system to have a "current" copy of all your data.

Thank you for the very useful information that even I can understand. At least now I have some idea of what needs to be done when my new computer arrives.