Imaging with free Macrium

I am not sure on which page you had this confusion. But I am sure it was just a misunderstanding.

No doubt it wanted to overwrite my recovery hdd the way it was at first :/
That is not what I had in mind
A tad of a bug in the boot recovery options

Although some how my back up drive was disk 0 for some odd reason so possibly that is why
I used command prompt to deactivate the hdd and after that is showed as disk 0 but moved onwards anyway :)
That made my ssd c drive as disk 1.

Well done Mike. It is quite simple once you do it.

Bellzemos said:

Hello!

My friends bought 2 identical laptops. One replaced his laptop's HDD with a SanDisk 240GB SSD and the other replaced his laptop's HDD with Samsung 250GB SSD.

I am doing the installation of Windows, drivers etc. on the first one's laptop (with the SanDisk SSD).

I would like to use Macrium Reflect Free to make a full system image of the SanDisk SSD and then resotre it to the Samsung SSD on the other laptop to avoid installing Windows and all the drivers again.

Will it work?

I t will work as long as the hardware is identical. Of course both laptops need their own individual product key to activate. I've always used the Audit Mode method in creating the initial Windows 7 system image with Macrium as told in this tutorial: New Installation: How to Create a General System Image in Audit Mode

Until very recently I had several similar laptops and I used the method told above to create the image on one of them and then simply restoring the image to the others.

Kari

Well after 6-7 years I finally imaged my Acer machine lol
Sweet I also got the esata port/ cable to work on it too dang that is fast why I've been messing with usb 2 ports for so long I have no idea Oh yea because I couldn't get it to work
Cheers.

Good news Mike.

He Mike :),been reading this thread, cannot say I understand it, but some of it make sense to me, congratulations, you have given yourself a nice Christmas pressie

You can be a proud

What is there that you cannot understand ??

About 99% but I am learning :)

Little by little one step at the time,

We are almost neighbours, you in the land of

And me in Tirol land of

I wish you good health for the New Year !