I have bought a new PC with Windows 10. Is it possible migrate all data and programs from my old laptop to new one? Thanks
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I know about the Easy Transfer tool included in Windows 7 that will transfer all my files but I want to transfer my programs. Also, I don't want to buy any gimmicky program if I don't have to.
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Possible Duplicate:          Recently I bought an Asus u32vj and decided to change from its hdd to a smaller capacity ssd. The  problem is I can't figure out how to migrate Windows 8 to the ssd. Actually I don't need to migrate, I just want to install Windows 8 which came with my notebook without the DVD. I have the recovery installer residing on the recovery partition.   The recovery tool suggested in the manual "A recovery burner" is missing.  How can I fix my problem?
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The old laptop won't work. So I'm looking to transfer data from my old laptop's hard drive, a 640 GB Momentus (I'm pretty sure the hard drive is fine),  to a new laptop.   I've researched and it looks like I'll need something like a USB to SATA/IDE cable. I've read and watched a couple of different demonstrations using different cables and sometimes using an external power supply. I'm not sure what exactly I need for my situation.   So, my question is what precisely do I need to buy in order to transfer data from my old Momentus 640 GB drive to my new HP EliteBook 8750p, and how exactly is this transfer made? From what I understand, after all of the connections have been made, it's a simple drag and drop.
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I am currently running 8.1. I'd like to try out Windows 10 and if I like it upgrade. If not, I'll keep running as I am.   I've never used a virtual machine before: can Window 10 be used from a virtual machine as a "sandbox", and if so how?
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I have a Dell D630 laptop that has Windows 7 Professional on it that was in dire need for replacement so I recently picked up an HP G62 laptop that comes with Windows 7 Home Premium. I don't need both laptops and I'd rather spare myself the time reinstalling all my programs and making sure I didn't forget to migrate any of my data over by simply swapping hard drives from the Dell to the HP.  Well, I tried just that and my HP laptop instantly BSOD'd on startup.  I'm currently running 'Startup Repair' but it's been sitting there for over 20 mins saying &quot;Attempting repairs...&quot; and nothing is really happening so I don't have much faith in this. The good news is that before I swapped the drives I made an Acronis image of the Dell drive and stored it on my NAS so I can pretty much try anything with this drive and still get back to where I was if need be. I find it hard to believe that what I want to do would be rather difficult, although it sure is looking that way.  I'd appreciate any advice in making this happen. Thanks Edit All the answers were great, so thank you.  I accepted djechelon's answer because the Win7 migration tool saved me quite a bit of time.
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I have a laptop in which the internal drive bay has been destroyed, but the rest of the laptop works fine. I was wondering if it's possible to do a full installation of Windows 10 on a USB flash drive.  I'm aware of Windows To Go, but I'm not sure if it's what I want. I don't need a "portable" installation of Windows, I intend for the flash drive to be permanently connected to the computer. I would prefer for the system to function as normally as possible.  If I can't figure out how to do this, I'll probably just install Linux onto the flash drive instead.
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I would like to build a new computer (it's been 7 years since the last one). Does Windows 10 support more than one ?
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I have upgraded my Windows 8 to Windows 10 recently. After that, I bought a SSD drive for my notebook and removed the regular HDD drive from it and installed a fresh copy of Windows 10 (Home edition). The HDD was put in a external USB case, so I can access my old files and old Windows installation partition as well.  The problem is now I'm having some issues to activate my fresh installation of Windows. I'm not really sure that I should've installed Windows 10 Home or another version.  How can I determine which Windows version is in the old HDD, given that all files are still accessible, but the system itself is not running?  I could just swap the SSD and the HDD again and boot the old system, but it'll be better to find a "software" way of doing that.  addresses what I'm looking for, but for Windows XP. The proposed file doesn't exists in my old installation.
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I have installed windows 7 and then Ubuntu 11.04. Now I want to know how I can switch from Ubuntu to Windows 7 and from Windows 7 to Ubuntu without restarting the computer.
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Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort?  My preference is that it would be really easy.    Boot into Windows Pick drive to move Pick target drive It copies everything over, and reboots to the correct partition.
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I have a 5 year old notebook computer. It uses Windows XP, and as you might know, this OS now has no support at all. It has a 1.60GHz, 0.98GB of RAM.  What would you guys recommend me , in order for me to happily migrate from Windows XP to Ubuntu program.  I appreciate in advance any help you can provide me regarding this matter.  Regards
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Is there a way of easily transferring a saved game from one machine to another?   PC to PC XBox to XBox PS3 to PS3 Cross platform transfers
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I have googled but can't find a definite answer to my question. All the answers are incomplete.    I want to clean install Windows 10 using USB. When restarting from USB I want to use advanced and format all the partitions and create one partition then install Windows 10 on it.   I bought my HP laptop with Windows 8 and upgraded for free to Windows 10 and activated auto.  Will Windows 10 activate after I remove all partitions and create one partition out of them and then install Windows 10 on it?  I have 2/3 Recovery partitions and windows old folder etc. Before the upgrade I only had one Recovery partition.   Scenario 1:   I have one Desktop with win8 activated, used free upgrade to win10 and activated. Formatted HDD and re-installed win10 with USB media from Microsoft. It did not activate after clean install. I had to install win8, activate it, upgrade to win10 and then it activated.  Scenario 2:  I have one laptop with windows 8 activated, used free upgrade to win10. Now I want to format all my partitions because they are useless and make one partition. This is possible when formatting. Because my HP laptop came with OEM OS, I do not have a serial because it was embedded in the recovery. So I can't use a serial to activate win10 if it does not activate itself. I also do not have the serial in this case to install win8 and activate it and then upgrade to win10 if win10 does not activate the same way as scenario 1.  I need an answer to if I can remove all paritions, create one and install Windows 10 on it so it activates. Or is the hidden super secret spy serial key stored on one of those partitions?
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Changing hard disk with ssd, can I migrate contents so that I can switch drives without a hassle?  For instance, keep my Windows configuration and installed programs and documents
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Many posts around that subject, but this case is a bit specific (I think) since it's not about a migration nor a cloning.   Initially Windows 7 on a 500GB HDD (OEM) then upgrade to Windows 10 (offered by Microsoft)   Now we have a brand new 550GB SSD and would like to install a fresh Windows  on it (and get rid of the old one on the HDD).   Do we have to install the initial (Win 7) or the upgraded (Win 10) on the SSD? What happens with the license, will Microsoft accept the license "transfer" automatically?   We'd prefer to install Windows 7, unless 10 is mandatory (or recommended).  Edit  Actually we'll go for win 10 since we need to switch languages after the install (thanks @Ramhound). Thus the question is back to the classical Win 10 reinstall, and is definitely a dupe . . .
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I've taken the plunge and bought an SSD and want to move my existing Windows installation over. The current hard disk is 500Gb, but I've trimmed the contents down to about ~40Gb. I'm transferring it across to a 100Gb SSD and looking for the easiest way just to copy everything across and set the SSD up as a boot device.  I've looked at a few tools like Macrium Reflect, but they don't seem able to restore to a smaller drive. Do I need to go for something like  to do this? I'm trying to avoid scary Linux-based boot utilities if possible, does anyone know of an easier way?
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I have a laptop which I'm going to return due to battery defects. As I have already configured everything on this laptop, I'd like to migrate the installation on the new laptop (when I'll get it). The one to replace has a 128 GB eMMC, and two USB 3 ports. So, I was thinking to   Boot from a Linux live USB from port 1 Make an image with dd of the eMMC, saving it to a external HDD on port 2 Do the reverse on the new laptop   My question is, will it work fine with Windows? Does migrating this way have any issues? Would I be able to restore the installation if the new laptop is a different model with at least 128 GB?