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Windows 10 Tablet backup

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Hi!

Am I assuming correctly that I need a PC license to backup a Windows 10 tablet/convertible?

Also, has anybody ever backed up the entire hard drive of a Tablet and restored it completely like for PC. In my case it is a Lenovo Yoga 2 1051f?

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Johannes, yes, a full license of Acronis will be needed.  You can do this with the 30 day trial, but recovery is only possible with the bootable media and to the same hardware.

As for Windows licensing... 

I have backed up several tablets and restored them to the same device.  My default practice is to backup a system right out of the box "as is" in case I ever need to revert to factory.  I have had success with a Fry's vulcan, acer aspire switch 10, surface Pro's and my main media tablet is an Asus T200 and have made several backups and restores of tablets that use Wimboot and even installed full OS versions afterwards and been able to restore the wimboot images.  

I have not gone from a tablet backup to a different system, but I don't see why this would not work as long as the bios setup is compatible between the 2 OS (for instance, by tablet is only 64-bit UEFI and will not allow a 32-bit or a legacy image to retore and be bootable since the bios is locked to 64-bit UEFI only).  AFter doing a full disc backup, you wouldrestore the image to the new machine.  You may then need to run Universal Restore to generalize drivers to get it to boot though, assuming that they share the same OS configurations (UEFI/64bit in most cases now, but UEFI/32bit is also common in cheaper tablets with limited memory and limited eMMC hard drive space).  

Please keep in mind that OEM Windows licneses are only designed for the original hardware.  If both systems already run Windows 10 (same version) adn are licensed, then you're fine since the licenses are hardware based and once the license is registered on that license, it will always be licensed for that hardware.  If you have Windows 8.1 or earlier though, OEM licenses are tied to that specific hardware only.

Also, if the tablets have different OS, if teh vendor does not have drivers for the other OS, this coudl be a problem after resoring.  Windows 10 drivers are pretty good out of the box ans with Windows updates, but a good example would be a surface pro 4 which only has drivers for Windows 10 and cannot run Windows 8.1 or earlier versions... it can, but things like teh touch screen will never work because there are no Windows 8.1 or earlier drivers for that particular hardware. 

Long story short, it should be possible.  However, I would take a full disc backup of each system first (just in case).  Then give it a shot. If it doesn't work, then restore your full disc backup.

Wow, thank you Bobbo for your exhaustive reply!

However, I think there was a language misunderstanding here: I meant "Has anybody ever backed up an entire tblet through image backup and restored it back to the tablet. Just like I can do it for my PC?" I was concerned that this might not be possible due to the BIOS or whatever limitations of a tablet but I understand you were succesful doing this!

Two questions:

a) What is Wimboot? Is that some sort of BIOS for tablets?

b) What do you mean by"full OS versions"?

By the way: I think we have the very same use case: I want to buy the 1051f (which has Win 8.1) and make an image backup. Then, I want to install Win10 which will kill the restore partition as I read. Which means I can baiscally delete the resotre partition and use it for my stuff. If it turns out that Win10 lacks drivers (which might be the case for the SD slot, which I also read) or anything else doesn't work smoothly I want to restore factory defaults.

Ah - yeah, I misunderstood a little bit.  Backing up and restoring to the same hardware should be no problem at all then.  That's what I've been doing without issue.  As long as the backup and restore options can see the internal hard drive, you're good to go. Just make sure you backup the entire inernal hard drive, with all paritions selected. 

Wimboot is a way of using a compressed boot.wim file in the OS to save space on some tablets - usually those with only 2Gb of memory and 32Gb or less total internal hard drive space. I don't know exactly how it works, but basically, it keeps many of the OS system resources compressed and they can be accessed on the fly.  As a result, is keeps the total OS install smaller, but at the cost of some speed.  

My 64gb tablet came with wimboot, but after I licensed it with Windows 10, I wiped the drive and installed a full OS of Windows 10 (regular install of Windows 10 using the Windows 10 media creation tool - just like you'd find on a PC install of Windows or most laptops).  I don't do much with the tablet so space is not an issue with 64gb available and wanted a full OS install to improve performance on a modest system with a baytrail CPU and only 4Gb of available memory.  If you have 32Gb or inernal memory, or less, you probably want to stick with the wimboot install of the OS that comes with the tablet... I have no idea how you could do a "fresh" install of Windows 10 using wimboot. 

What is Windows Image Boot (Wimboot)