Purpose of Win 7 backup image?

Please excuse what may be a naive question! I have faithfully imaged my computer's Win 7 hard drive each week using (alternately) Aomei and Acronis software. I also use Macrium for periodic images on my older laptop and my husband's computer, both of which use Win 7. It seems more than likely now, though, that any computer failure will probably result in the purchase of a new computer, meaning Win 10 will be the OS installed. Would a disk backup image be of any help, or should I focus exclusively now on file and folder backups?

Hi,
Yep a system image probably won't help much unless it's going to the same machine it was created from
All else would be best as copy and paste folders.... to another exterior drive/ disk.
That way it will not only be faster but more relevant backup to transfer to a newer machine.

Thanks for confirming my thoughts. I'm guessing that even restoring to another Win 7 computer would probably not be successful, as the hardware is different in each.

Shouldn't be difficult. Aomei will restore a system backup to different hardware.

DavidE said:

Personally i would continue to create periodic backup images on any system that is working well.
There could be many reasons to recover without having to buy a new pc such as:
HD failure, malware/virus, Windows Update problem, New program causes problems, Power Outage, ...

Yes, I know that's true, but my desktop is nearly 6 years old, so I guess I'm anticipating a major rather than a minor problem, one in which a recovery might not be worth the effort. Would sure hate to abandon Windows 7, though!

Hi,
My Acer is that old and still going strong :)
As long as the mother board doesn't get whacked it's still a pc with a valid license for the original windows install
Modifing old desktop machine in new case

:) Food for thought!

Thanks for all the comments!

Hi,
That was my first relocation attempt
Been wanting to do it for years and finally did it was actually pretty easy once I got through the chicken little faze and got help from many other members here on another first build here too :)

SIW2 said:

Shouldn't be difficult. Aomei will restore a system backup to different hardware.

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