DougS Loc: Central Arkansas

4 months ago, I used EaseUS Todo PCTrans to do just what you are doing. It did a lot of the work, but not all. I had to manually install some parts (some the software required it), some the software source was required. It was a little slow the way I did it, but then there was a lot to transfer. I had to have a programmer take over my computer once or twice, to get out the bugs. Most, if not all of your software should work. Good luck!

markngolf Loc: Bridgewater, NJ

[quote=frankraney]Good to know. I'll check it out. My system is about to crash. In fact it shut off yesterday and I almost didn't get it started again..... Usually it's just the monitor output that stops.... So I'm looking looking for a new computer also.

I think it's more the ini files and registry entries that make the difference. Director structure is no problem. I have backups. I use some.

What's getting me worried is Dave said that new firmware and hardware is a concern. I was not aware of that....I figured it was operating system, as long as they are the same. I would think a clone would work.[/quote

Hope you have success.
Mark

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

[quote=markngolf][quote=frankraney]Good to know. I'll check it out. My system is about to crash. In fact it shut off yesterday and I almost didn't get it started again..... Usually it's just the monitor output that stops.... So I'm looking looking for a new computer also.

I think it's more the ini files and registry entries that make the difference. Director structure is no problem. I have backups. I use some.

What's getting me worried is Dave said that new firmware and hardware is a concern. I was not aware of that....I figured it was operating system, as long as they are the same. I would think a clone would work.[/quote

Hope you have success.
Mark[/quote]

Oh yes, I forgot to mention, my problems got worse after this current win 10 update.

Paul Diamond Loc: Atlanta, GA, USA

My vote also for EaseUS. Did upgrades of 256gb SSD to 1TB SSD and HDD to SSD on the same computer. Changing to a new MB, graphics card, etc. (new computer) probably is best with full backups of your existing data + files. And a clean install of windows with the new HW. Expect trouble trying to keep using the old windows OS license without a phone call to Microsoft and giving them the info about your two systems to allow reuse of the prior license. (Faster and cheaper to do a clean install of a new copy of windows on a new PC.)

(I had a catastrophic HDD crash/corruption after a Win10 upgrade last September. )

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

I do these things, and have done them for decades.
Take my Windows 10 hard drive out of the PC, and install it into a MacPro. Yup, that what I do,
Windows does a lot of updating. Reboot.
Drive Booster Free does a lot of updating. Reboot.
Ding Ding! Call Microsoft. Explain the situation. Yup happens. Provide the license number. It's fixed. Reboot.
Coffee still a bit warm. There's nothing magical nor mysterious here.
Your Adobe products are licensed to your hardware. They too have a phone number. You call, and explain you want to transfer your single use license from PC "A" to PC "B". They will paraphrase and explain back to you it's a single use license. Yup yup happens again. They fix it.

Yes, a clean install on a fresh format is the best. You're gonna need a bigger sandwich. This .. takes .. time.
But you should have a cleaner meaner faster lighter system. Is it all in and working? Make a master image.
OTOH: I have here an old slow POS hard drive. Win 98 > Win7 > Win8 > Win8,1 > Win10 > rollback Win 8.1 I filled it with all the little crappy utilities I can think of to help with somebody's "I don't know" computer. I lerv borrowing all the Win7 backgrounds and sound files, and some Win8.1 themepacks. I should back them up.

tjw47 Loc: Michigan

As far as windows licensing goes if your license is a retail version then you can transfer the license.
If you have a OEM License then it is not transferable.
On an oem license if the motherboard fails/cpu fails your only option is to replace the hardware with the same model hardware otherwise it is a "new" computer.