"RayLopez99" wrote in message
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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

Using Acronis True Image Home, I have restored backups from one AMD machine
to newer AMD machines a few times with little to no problems, and never had
to renew my Win10ProX64 license, or pay for a new one.
I've never gone cross-platform (AMDIntel, or IntelAMD). If you are the
adventurous type, and have the driver disk for the new PC, you might try the
restore to it and boot into safe mode to see if it lets you install the
drivers. No matter what, I would try safe mode anyhow- I think there would
be less chance of everything getting screwed up at boot.

Just my 2 cents worth :-)
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SC Tom