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How to migrate a full system ( Win 10 + installed applications) on a new HW ( Mother Board+Proc) ?

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Hello,

 

I need to change/update my main HW ( Mother Board + CPU).

I do not want to reinstall Windows 10 and all my properly installed many applications which would take lot of time and lot of troubles before recovering a 100 % operational SW configuration.

Is True Image 2020 the right package to do it ?  How to find a detailed tutorial on such sensitive work ?

 

Many thanks for help.

 

 

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Claude, welcome to these public User Forums.

What are you changing your motherboard & CPU from and to? 
How different will the original and new hardware be?

You can use ATI 2020 to create a full Disks & Partitions backup of the system OS disk drive before making the change of hardware so that you have a good backup image of the system as it is in a working state.

After changing the motherboard and CPU etc, you could attempt to boot into Windows from the original disk drive provided the old and new BIOS both use the same BIOS boot mode, i.e. both are UEFI (or both Legacy).

If your old motherboard currently uses Legacy / MBR BIOS mode, then the new motherboard BIOS would need to support using the same via having CSM enabled, but would be better to migrate the OS from Legacy to UEFI is the old motherboard supports using UEFI mode.

Are you keeping the same disk drives to use with the new motherboard?

Moving Windows 10 OS to new hardware does not normally need Acronis Universal Restore (AUR) to be used as the OS has much better hardware change handling that earlier versions, but if the new motherboard has any new components that need specific device drivers, then it would be best to create the AUR rescue media and have all the device drivers for the new motherboard available 'just in case'!