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Dyingpie1

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Hi everyone,
I recently ordered a new laptop, that I am now returning. The old computer has an SSD and an HDD. I boot from the SSD and have all my games and the majority of my files on my HDD. I was wondering how I should go about making images of these drives? I want it to be so I can just restore from the images on the laptop I am getting in exchange for this one, and not have to configure anything, as I already have so much configured. Should I use the built in Windows system image backup? Should I make an image for the SSD and the HDD separately? Or should I do a system image of both of them at the same time? Thanks!
 
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Ron's comment was addressing a Windows-licensing issue AS IF you were going to replace your new computer's booting C: Drive with the old computer's booting C: Drive - thus, you'd be attempting to use your old computer's Windows license on the new computer.

This is not what you want, right? You only want to transfer your data files over, yes?

One easy way - set up a Shared Folder on the new computer, then from the Old Computer, log into the New Computer's shared folder and drag-n-drop copy your data files.

If you're trying to copy Program Files, most of those can't be simply 'copied over'. They must be formally installed, creating registry entries and loading all appropriate supporting files.

Of course, it would be wise and...
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Yes you will, how else are you able to transfer over your data?
 
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Ron's comment was addressing a Windows-licensing issue AS IF you were going to replace your new computer's booting C: Drive with the old computer's booting C: Drive - thus, you'd be attempting to use your old computer's Windows license on the new computer.

This is not what you want, right? You only want to transfer your data files over, yes?

One easy way - set up a Shared Folder on the new computer, then from the Old Computer, log into the New Computer's shared folder and drag-n-drop copy your data files.

If you're trying to copy Program Files, most of those can't be simply 'copied over'. They must be formally installed, creating registry entries and loading all appropriate supporting files.

Of course, it would be wise and useful to have data-file backups - burn Data Disks, copy them to USBs, or both.

"Imaging" drives is a clone-like process, though, and the Restore Process means I'd wipe out a target drive's contents and load the old Imaged-Drive's contents onto it.
 
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