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Moving system partition to new computer

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Trying to decide the best course of action!
Acer laptop with 250 gig drive had internal system failure. I had already replaced the drive, to eliminate that being the problem, but the failures still became more frequent, and finally died totally. (No surprise, it was 6 years old!)

Today, purchased new laptop, HP with 1 TB drive. The task now is to move a tremendous amount of personalized applications, data, configurations, etc, without HOURS of downloads, installs, copying data, etc!!

The Acer was always kept well backed up with full disk images, the last one the day before the total failure. However, I assume I cannot just restore that image to the new system since the new HP has the newer boot technology. Perhaps I can just restore the C: partition from the saved image to replace the C: partition on the new system, leaving the boot partition, recovery partitions, etc, in place on the new HP!! Then there's the question of the different size of the two C: partitions.

Any thoughts and advice will be welcome.
Bob

Edit: Old acer was already upgraded to Win 10, and new HP has Win 10, so both C: partitions should be compatible.

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You will need to use Universal Restore as the computers are different. You could indeed try to restore only the C:\ partition, and most likely you will have to repair the startup of the computer, so create a recovery drive with your new system before attempting the operation, and, while you are at it, make a full backup of that new system.

- copy the contents of Windows/System32/Drivers and SysWOW64/Drivers to a USB flash drive for the universal restore part of the operation.
- boot the new computer on the recovery medium,
- restore simply choose the new C:\ as the destination and ATI will restore that in place
- Then, boot the computer on the Universal restore recovery medium to update the drivers in the registry of the restored image.
- try to boot normally.

Robert Vaughan wrote:

Trying to decide the best course of action!
Acer laptop with 250 gig drive had internal system failure. I had already replaced the drive, to eliminate that being the problem, but the failures still became more frequent, and finally died totally. (No surprise, it was 6 years old!)

Today, purchased new laptop, HP with 1 TB drive. The task now is to move a tremendous amount of personalized applications, data, configurations, etc, without HOURS of downloads, installs, copying data, etc!!

The Acer was always kept well backed up with full disk images, the last one the day before the total failure. However, I assume I cannot just restore that image to the new system since the new HP has the newer boot technology. Perhaps I can just restore the C: partition from the saved image to replace the C: partition on the new system, leaving the boot partition, recovery partitions, etc, in place on the new HP!! Then there's the question of the different size of the two C: partitions.

Any thoughts and advice will be welcome.
Bob

Edit: Old acer was already upgraded to Win 10, and new HP has Win 10, so both C: partitions should be compatible.

Hi Bob,

I would do a Partition Image of the Windows 10 on the new HP Laptop, but you swap out that Windows 10 Partition.

Microsoft stated that they will support Windows 10 on the computer that it was originally installed on.

When you restore the Acer Windows 10 partition on the HP Computer, it will Deactivated Windows 10 on the new Computer. You will need to change the Product Key for Windows 10.