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| 1446833 | 2018-02-27 21:34:00 | I have a new desktop PC and was wondering whether I can take the backup HDD with system image of the old computer, put it in the new one and restore files, I wont be using the same windows license as the new one has its own, help would be appreciated | PeterQ (16315) | ||
| 1446834 | 2018-02-27 23:22:00 | I have a new desktop PC and was wondering whether I can take the backup HDD with system image of the old computer, put it in the new one and restore files, I wont be using the same windows license as the new one has its own, help would be appreciated Depending on OS yes. If windows, and going to a modern one, you can get disk2vhd, and take an image of your current physical hard drive, then in Windows 10 (for example) you can either mount that as a drive....or if you really want, spin it up as a virtual machine and run your old computer. I did this for my work machine before rebuilding it, and now have my old machine as a Hyper-V vm....or just a mountable drive to pull old files off. |
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| 1446835 | 2018-02-27 23:37:00 | Thanks psycik yes that what I was intending to do but was just a bit worried about the files on the system image not correlating ( if that's the word ) with the new one | PeterQ (16315) | ||
| 1446836 | 2018-02-28 00:23:00 | Thanks psycik yes that what I was intending to do but was just a bit worried about the files on the system image not correlating ( if that's the word ) with the new one They wont have any connection to the new machine at all. it's a self contained image. |
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