Can I backup my pc & restore it on my laptop?

Hi there
Currently I have a desktop pc with two drive partitions and my windows and programs are installed on drive C, I just wondered that can I use windows backup function to create a backup of this drive, as I want and love all my programs, settings, windows updates etc there, and then restore it on my laptop! so my laptop will be accurately like my pc programs and settings! if it's not possible do you have any better option for me? it's so hard and will take much time from me to do these manually from scratch!
thx and sorry for my english.

fireberd said:

The short answer is NO. Programs must be installed using the programs installation procedure. You can't copy programs.

thx for reply, but I know that programs can't be copied, but windows restore and backup function, as described in it's manual notes, let user to backup all it's data including programs and registry to be restored later, in other mean it's a drive image, I just want to know that is that possible to use a system back up for restoring on other systems which has different hardware like a laptop?

SIW2 said:

Yes you can make an image and restore to a different machine.

Windows system image program is very fiddly to try and do that.

I would use AOMEI Backupper (free version will be ok ) - it can restore an aomei image to different hardware. That means all the drivers in the image will be available on the new hardware.

Free Download AOMEI Backupper Standard: Windows Backup & Cloning Software

Local Download Standard version (free)





The MS license key is a different thing.

If you are in the Uk, or now even in the EU, you can transfer a license, but as it will almost certainly be a one machine license, you can't have it on both machines.

Short answer, you need a win 7 license for the laptop.

You may already have one - but it needs to be the same Edition (Home Premium, Pro, etc ).

If you want to buy a win 7 license, Pro can be had for a very reasonable $45, Home Prem was $40 last time I looked.

Thanks for introducing that software I'll try that, but I just wondered what will happen for drivers? for example my pc has an amd video card and if I use that sofware to create an image of my pc and restore it on my laptop which hasn't an amd card, so what will be occur? may this cause a failure?

-------------------------UPDATE----------------------

nevermind I found my answer in their instructions:

Some drivers, such as video/sound card drivers, NIC drivers, display driver etc, are not installed by AOMEI Universal Restore, as they doesn’t affect system startup and can be installed manually in Windows after the successful restore.

SIW2 said:

Doubt it. The restored windows will just try and use whatever graphics it has. Windows update will offer to download appropriate graphics driver for the laptop.Though you can probably also find machine specific drivers at the laptop manufacturer website.

Ok, thank you so much you showed me what exactly I needed :)