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reliable restore from desktop to notebook

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Hellow,

I am writing to you because I need your advice. I want to buy a notebook and restore or clone my desktop OS partitions (windows 8 and Windows 7) to it using Acronis Plus pack. The desktop has USB 2.0 ports and Fireware port. The system disc is SATA 3.0 standard disc not SSD. Please write me your opinion on the reliability of the following ways of restoring/Cloning the system partitions from the desktop to the notebook.
1. connect the notebook to the desktop with usb port and clone the discs.
2. Connect with the fireware port and clone.
3. connect the notebook to the desktop with usb port and restore the discs using windows version of acronis or bootable cd.
4. connect the notebook to the desktop with fireware port and restore the discs using Acronis software or bootable cd.
5. Copy the backup of the system to the notebook disc and restore from the copy. I shall use bootable cd or Acronis installed either on the desktop or on the notebook.
6. Take off the internal disc from the desktop and connect it to the usb ports of the notebook to clone partition using USB-SATA adapter.
7. Take off the internal disc from the desktop and connect it to the Fireware ports of the notebook to clone partition using fireware adapter, if possible.
8. Take off the internal disc from the desktop and connect it to the usb ports of the notebook to restore partition.
9. Take off the internal disc from the desktop and connect it to the Fireware ports of the notebook to clone partition using adapter.
Cases 6, 7, 8, 9 provide that I shall install the acronis plus pack on the notebook or put bootable cd on.

Regards,

Alexander

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To do a universal restore, you cannot clone. So you have to create a full disk backup of your desktop disk, store the image on a USB disk, connect the USB disk to the laptop, boot the computer on the Acronis recovery CD and recover using Universal Restore.
I'd do a backup of the notebook prior to restore the other image on top of it, in case things don't work out the way you want.