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Typically how much time does it take? From your past experiences?
Typically how much time does it take? From your past experiences?
IT will depend on your total data imaged and the speed of your hardware. My images, I have two drives, took 18 minutes each to make and a little less than that each to restore, so about an hour.
If you're not making any images (you should to have a way back) the whole sysprep procedure and hardware transfers can take from 10 minutes to an hour, this includes registering the install again.
Exactly. My last transfer was with a laptop with over 400 GB on HDD in two partitions, over 150 GB on C:. Generalizing it as per this tutorial took about 3 or 4 minutes, 5 minutes to open the lid and removing HDD and to put it on a new laptop, about 10 minutes to set up the new laptop.
Kari
I tried for the third time to transfer the image to new hardware setup today without success. I followed your instructions with regard to audit mode etc. Sysprep completed quickly, but it failed to boot into safe mode stating the usual message "Windows could not complete installation. To install windows on this computer, restart the installation" Unless you have any ideas to get booted up, it looks like i'm going to have to embark on a clean install.
Steve
I followed the instructions from kari a few pages back. I note someone found a fix from regedit cmd command and making some alterations from there. How easy is to to amend from the command prompt? I have edited before from explorer but presume its not as easy from shift f11?
The only part of the process I could not do is boot into safe mode first time round. F8 had no effect.
Is there another way?
One more question:
When I do the migration to a new laptop (X61T to XT61) what licensing/ software issues could I face?
e.g. MS Office and other software applications that might have some kind of 'link' or binding to the previous machine?
Any such experiences?
Thanks Britton30! Fourth attempt worked. It was your reference back to an old post with the regedit that fixed it. I am so relieved!