Hello everybody!
This video will tell you how to move your Windows from one computer to another without
having to reinstall it and keeping all settings, files and installed software.
You may need it if you bought a new computer and now you want to move your working operating
system there without any changes.
To move your Windows, create a recovery image.
You don’t need any third-party apps to do it.
You can use Windows tools.
To do it: • Go to Control Panel / File History / System
Image Backup /Create a system image.
• In Windows 7, it is Control Panel / Backup and Restore /Create a system image.
• Select a media to save the image and click Next.
Watch one of our videos for a detailed guide on creating a recovery image and restoring
Windows; find the link in the description: As a result, a complete system image will
be created, including all installed applications and programs, files and shortcuts as well
as settings.
To use the system image you have just created on another computer, you will need a Windows
boot or installation disk.
In my case, a bootable USB drive will be created.
But it can also be a CD / DVD.
Watch another video on our channel to see how to create a bootable USB drive for Windows
10, 8 or 7; find the link in the description:
After that: • Connect the media containing the system
image and the USB bootable drive to the new computer
• Boot the computer with the USB drive.
• To do it, go to BIOS or UEFI and set first boot priority to the USB device.
• Then restart the computer.
There is a special video about it.
I will give the link in the description:
• After the computer boots from the USB drive, use it to go to recovery environment
by selecting the menu System Restore.
There is a special video about it.
Find the link in the description:
• In the recovery environment, go to Troubleshooting /System image recovery.
• Then follow the wizard directions to recover the system from an image
• and the recovery process will start.
• Wait until it is over.
Here is one very important aspect.
Transferring Windows from one computer to another is only possible if they have similar
interfaces: BIOS and BIOS, or UEFI and UEFI.
You can also move the system from a computer with BIOS to a computer with UEFI.
As all modern PCs have UEFI, you are not going to have any problems.
But if you try to move Windows from a computer with UEFI to a computer with BIOS, it will
not work.
The system image will not be restored and you will see an error message saying about
incompatibility of different versions of microcode.
To learn if you have a BIOS or UEFI, watch one
of our videos You will find the link in the description:
• When the recovery process is successful, the computer will restart and boot the same
Windows which you used to create the image.
System transfer is shown on the example of Windows 10.
In Windows 7, your actions will be the same.
Just when you unfold the image on a new PC, the recovery environment interface will be
different.
In this video, we showed a method based on Windows tools.
However, there are many third-party programs for transferring, cloning, creating a system
image or backup.
They are based on a similar principle.
There are both free and fee-paying solutions.
For example, free applications are AOMEI Backupper Standard or Macrium Reflect Free.
A good alternative are programs by HDD and SSD manufacturers: Seagate DiscWizard, Samsung
Data Migration, Acronis True Image Western Digital Edition.
But they all work only with disks of their own brands.
That’s all for now.
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