Windows OS imaging tool with system and recovery partitions

nRiTeCh

nRiTeCh

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I need a guaranteed OS imaging tool which will backup flawlessly the entire OS and work as is after restoring on another hard drive.

But scenario is a bit different. As I want to clone that OS from my primary OS as I cannot boot into that OS as its an Intel platform and doesn't boot on AMD.

**The major part is it should be able to backup the system and recovery partitions as well along with the core OS.

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Do you want whole OS or you just need data from one system to another? Imaging tools are mostly used for systems with same configuration.
 
Whole OS albeit without logging into that OS. I will be doing the imaging from other OS. And that image should contain all the 3 bootable partitions..
 
nRiTeCh said:
I need a guaranteed OS imaging tool which will backup flawlessly the entire OS after restoring onto another hard drive.
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CloneZilla can do this from a live disk. All for the cheap price of free. Just be extra sure you don't reverse the source and destination disks

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But scenario is a bit different. As I want to clone that OS from my primary OS as I cannot boot into that OS as its an Intel platform and doesn't boot on AMD.
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If your current drive can't boot up when installed on an AMD platform, the cloned drive will also not boot.

I suggest you proceed with a fresh installation on the new drive, attach the old drive and see if you can access the files you need.

If you were able to boot into the OS, you could have tried deleting all the device drives and then migrate to AMD platform, but this way is actually more work than a fresh install
 
nRiTeCh said:
I need a guaranteed OS imaging tool which will backup flawlessly the entire OS after restoring onto another hard drive.

But scenario is a bit different. As I want to clone that OS from my primary OS as I cannot boot into that OS as its an Intel platform and doesn't boot on AMD.

**The major part is it should be able to backup the system and recovery partitions as well along with the core OS.

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eTernity2021 said:
This is called as Digital Activation, that implies you can take backup image and you can restore the backup, only if you have the same combo of Hardwares exist or alive again, otherwise the restored backup will fail to operate normally...
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This is not the case. I have moved Win 10 installs across dissimilar hardware (Intel Desktops, different gen boards) without any issue. You can reactivate the Digital License by following these steps -

Reactivating Windows after a hardware change - Microsoft Support

Learn how to prepare your Windows device for a hardware change and find help reactivating Windows after a hardware change is complete.
support.microsoft.com support.microsoft.com
Also if anything is not working post the restore, it would be most likely a driver issue rather than registration.
I would defer to @Titokhan to provide more insight on this.
 
CloneZilla is a Open source software, its tailored for Linux, i would think thrice when i use it on Windows and Other OS coz its not reliable!!
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You don't need to use it on any other OS. You can boot into a live disk where CloneZilla is the OS. For cloning entire OS disk this is the best method. The new disk will in fact even have the same disk signature as the old one, so both can't be mounted at the same time until you change the signature on one of them. (Which is as easy as right clicking the drive in Disk Management and clicking Onlinetpm). Basically CZ is OS agnostic. It doesn't care what it is cloning.
 
I have used macrium reflect free to clone OSes from one disk to another. It has to be installed into the current disk, cloned to the attached new disk thru USB, replace the drive. Job done.
 
n1r0 said:
You don't need to use it on any other OS. You can boot into a live disk where CloneZilla is the OS. For cloning entire OS disk this is the best method. The new disk will in fact even have the same disk signature as the old one, so both can't be mounted at the same time until you change the signature on one of them. (Which is as easy as right clicking the drive in Disk Management and clicking Onlinetpm). Basically CZ is OS agnostic. It doesn't care what it is cloning.
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. :p
 
Why don’t we just not be marketing guys for a particular software and say boot using live usb and execute dd command.
The problem with disk images is that when you restore the image to a different sized drive you need to manually expand partitions and file systems. You don’t need licensed software to do any of it. Its just technical thats all.
 
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