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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
There are expensive programs that will transfer file and programs from one OS to another like Easeus PCTrans, Zinstall etc but they can be flakey.
However, these tools usually have a very restrive licences i.e. you can only use it to transfer from say PC A to PC B.
You cannot use it to transfer from PC A to PC C or from PC B to PC C without buying a new licence.
So the licence is effectively one use only. Frankly these tools are just not worth it.
As I said several times now, use image backups and export drivers first of new pc is the easiest option and free.
Of course, the best option is the dism method.
I transferred OS from an AMD pc with Sata SSD to Intel pc with NVME IRST drive, Radeon Graphics to Intel Iris graphics and completely different sound cards, wifi cards etc. using the dism method, and it worked a charm and no 3rd party tools at all.
I have a couple of batch files that do all the hard work.
It was an interesting and fun learning curve (following @Kari's excellent tutorials).
It sounds daunting but is well inside capacity of any guy familar with the command prompt.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Zenbook 14
- CPU
- I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB soldered
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop OLED screen
- Screen Resolution
- 2880x1800 touchscreen
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
- PSU
- Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
- Keyboard
- Built in UK keybd
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
- Internet Speed
- 900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)
Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)
