Backup to restore to new computer
Computer help needed. SSD primary drive with some of win10 programs, 2 tb HHD with other win10 programs. I want to recreate these 2 drives on a new machine, and I am lost.
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Your new computer will have it's own OS, registry and drivers for all the stuff to work with it.
You can't just take your drives from the old computer and plug them into the new one. None of the drivers will work, so no video, audio, etc...
You can copy the 'data' from your programs and then using the original install disks, install them on your new computer and then restore the data.
This gets all the registry entries in place, which is another pretty big deal with the new computer, so no, simply copying to the new computers HD will not work.
You can copy the stuff from your "USERS" folder. This gets all your desktop, documents, favorites, pictures, videos, etc to go back to your new computer, but as was said, program wise, you need to reinstall those for it all to work.
Good luck!
Mitch
You can't just take your drives from the old computer and plug them into the new one. None of the drivers will work, so no video, audio, etc...
You can copy the 'data' from your programs and then using the original install disks, install them on your new computer and then restore the data.
This gets all the registry entries in place, which is another pretty big deal with the new computer, so no, simply copying to the new computers HD will not work.
You can copy the stuff from your "USERS" folder. This gets all your desktop, documents, favorites, pictures, videos, etc to go back to your new computer, but as was said, program wise, you need to reinstall those for it all to work.
Good luck!
Mitch
