'Lo all I want to recover a W7 image to new HW. Hoping this would be easier and less timeconsuming that clean reinstall of W7 (or W10). Does this process actually work.?? Looking for best recommendations. Got good backups. Haven't done this before. Software agnostic (Been well served by Terabyte for imaging for a long time) Saw the dazzling Terabyte vid: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/videos/ifl/osdtool-sample.wmv Makes it look very easy...Heh...he always does !! The getting new drivers looks like one of the sticky points. Can set up P>V>P if that is a better Pathway. ?? Apropos of this: can I do an inplace upgrade of W7 to W10 and keep files etc, with legit Installation media ? Again, trying to avoid a lost couple of days reinstalling all my crap. Have plenty of FDISR snaps and IFW images and VMs for learning curve as req. Regards Longboard.
Longboard, This should work... Boot IFL Exit the IFL gui click the TBID Tool icon (next to IFL) Select "Restore a TBI Image File to a Physical drive" and press Enter (you have to use your keyboard for this app) Mount a Partition as Drive 1 select the partition on the external HD that contains the image select the folder select the image confirm the partition to restore On the Select Destination screen, select the target partition, HD0 drive or "First free area of space large enough on HD0" where you will restore the image Remove existing drivers and install default IDE/AHCI drivers Keep storage drivers and remove all other installed drivers Don't install driver, continue to next step Don't change HAL Enter a Computer name (your choice) Enter a Volume name (your choice) Press Enter to continue Yes for the Warning (the mouse now works) (you can practice the above steps several times and as long as you don't click "Yes" nothing will happen. Just click "No" to exit) you will see the image being restored you will see Backing-up System registry and Software registry you will see cleaning drivers (except IDE/AHCI ones) Press Enter to continue Enter for Operation completed right click the IFL desktop and click Reboot, Yes Win7 loads (large icons seen) Installing device driver software seen (click the balloon) after a few minutes you will see "Your device is ready to use" and the Restart Now request Win7 loads with the correct screen resolution and is ready to go check Device Manager to see if any devices need custom drivers Yes. Use a Win10 UFD. Double click setup.exe on the UFD. Edit... I assume the new computer will have the Firmware set to MBR/Legacy.
@Brian K Sorry, been busy. Thank you. Sticky that Yes, by choice legacy MBR Been reading this thread https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/upgrade-win7-to-win10-painlessly.400882/ What do i do with the system recovery partition Maybe inplace upgrade is the way to move into the next phase...have to some time soon...missed the free upgrade... Now OEM v Retail: have 5 winboxes to do. No doubt one will be unbootable afterwards ( will of course keep images jic !!) Thankyou.
EaseUS - I'm using for ages their Todo Backup Advanced Server. It has never failed. Used it literally hundreds of times (repurposing old laptops) for W7P64, W7P32 & W7E64. Just format the destination Drive 1st. Maybe the current EaseUS Todo free version will restore to different hardware. Aomei has good free products used long ago they worked. Macrium worked also for me even longer ago. But 99%+ I use EaseUS Todo Backup Advanced Server.
Longboard, Is it a System Reserved partition or a Recovery partition? If you are going to transfer a Win10 OS to new hardware there are different instructions... Create an Entire Drive image of the source disk In the new computer, boot IFL Delete all partitions on HD0 (IFL PartWork) Restore the image Stay in IFL. Don't boot Windows. OSDTool. Remove all installed drivers Restart I think it is preferable to do it your latest way. Upgrade Win7 to Win10 in the current hardware. Then transfer Win10 to new hardware.
Discs... I dont use the lenovo recovery space...just left it there in case.... Thx for the advice I will have to do a full monte soon enough.. Are there real advantages to UEFI/GPT Everything here works goodly to date
If it was my computer I'd delete that partition. You have your own images. It's certainly not worth the effort of you changing Win7 to Win10 and then UEFI Win10.
Sorry Thank you Been busy Changing direction a bit... Assume I'm going to do the inplace update/upgrade to Win 10: what do I need to do with the "Non OS" partitions Happy to delete the Lenovo recovery partition and resize OS partition. After that ?