RayLopez99 wrote:
The scenario: I have a x64 bit Windows 10 machine that's a laptop with decent but 5+ year old hardware, e.g., an SSD but an Intel i5 chip with 4 GB RAM.

I wish copy the Macrium Reflect image disc from this hardware to a tricked out, gaming type, state of the art tower PC with say the latest hardware (a bigger SSD but the fastest, with another SSD or HDD in tandem, i7 or AMD Ryzen-whatever multicore machine, 32 GB RAM, etc).

Any issues?

One issue I see is that with the free version of Macrium Relect, you cannot restore the image file to dissimilar hardware says their home page. So I will upgrade to the Home paid version, however, my question is whether you can pay Macrium one time for the upgrade and it's good for life or whether you have to pay every year? I'm not talking about their 12 month support, with is limited to one year after your purchase a license, but the license for the paid Home version that allows you to restore to dissimilar hardware. I hate to buy a license then find in 18 months when I do this restore that it's expired for dissimilar hardware restores.

The second, bigger issue is whether some programs will break if I restore the old image file onto newer hardware? I suspect some programs will, but I'm guessing MS-Office, my Visual Studio program I use for coding, and maybe some of my chess programs probably won't, unless they have a special key tied to hardware. On this last point, I do realize that upgrading WIndows 10 Home to newer hardware will necessitate I spend $100 or so for a new license from Microsoft, since the old WIndows 10 key is tied to the old hardware, and I'm prepared to pay that.

Obviously the main reason for the restore is that I don't want to reinstall a couple of dozen programs (some of which I no longer have the original installation DVD/CDs for).

Thanks in advance to the usual posters and some of you newer ones for any advice.

RL

There should be a PDF manual for Macrium.

http://reflect.macrium.com/help/v5/h...w_hardware.htm

Example of a PDF.

http://updates.macrium.com/reflect/v...df?src=sidebar

Paul