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Restoring to dissimilar hardware...?

Coldblackice

Coldblackice

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Do any of you ever do this?

I'm debating between buying the Standard or Pro versions of Macrium Reflect. The big difference between the two (besides dynamic disk support, which I never use), is restoring to dissimilar hardware.

Would any of you ever use a feature like this? I'm wondering if it's a potentially mishap/bug-ridden feature that's meant for the simple home user, who doesn't know how to go through a reinstall, and would much rather just have a program automate a transferring of one system to another.

I imagine a process like this could/would be ripe with potential bugs, hiccups, and headaches, which would be avoided with just doing a fresh install on new hardware, and then restoring selected parts from the backup.

I suppose it largely depends on what hardware changed inbetween. I just don't know if I'd trust a program to take one system's image backup and translate it to another system's, unless it was purely just a matter of "transcoding" the hard disks' size/alignment/layout/etc.
 
Acronis has a similar feature and I think I did it once. Most of the time I don't bother and just put the old windows drive on the new motherboard, often it just works. With XP I often used the repair option but with 7 you have to be able to boot to do that, so a commercial solution might be better. I never "start fresh" that's for sure, my XP lasted almost 10 years and countless motherboards, my 7 is on its third motherboard. I wanted to upgrade from XP to 7 but from 32bit to 64bit there is no way.

I still use the old XP sometimes, I converted it in a vmware virtual machine !
 
On windows and on linux I have successfully used DD multiple times to restore to dissimilar hardware. Meaning an exact bit for bit copy was all that was needed.
 
Don't bother with it.

It's a hassle and needs all the drivers from the new equipment.

Save your cash unless you have a need for computer migration for system recovery, testing and other purposes.
 
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