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On my current machine, I have two drives, both of which are in use. I made a backup using the builtin win 10 backup tool on an external drive. Can this backup be restored on a new machine running win 10 but that has only one drive?

Sebi
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You can use Universal Restore feature of AOMEI Backupper. You may use KYHI's Rescue Media for that.

Keep In Mind :

  • You will need to make a 'System Image Backup' with 'Backupper' only. Apart from the OS/ System, you may also want to migrate other partitions to the new machine's disk. You will need to include those partitions in the System Image.

  • You are having only one drive on the new machine which is already having an OS & a few other partitions. So, you will be heading to a multiboot on the same disk & that will need some extra steps.

  • AOMEI will format the target disk before hand. So, we will make a full disk image of the new machine's disk first of all. It is needed for precaution & extra steps.

Steps :

  1. Make the system image of the source disk with Backupper.

  2. Make a full image of the destination/ target disk.

  3. Complete the 'Universal Restore' & check whether you are able to boot into the new machine.

After a successful migration, Create new partitions to restore the previously existing partitions from the full disk image. Make new partitions for the required partitions & save / copy them individually, satisfying the order requirements such as order for UEFI / GPT in Win 10. The previously installed OS will not work by just copying its partition from the disk image. You may need to use EasyBCD, EasyUEFI, etc to add its boot entry.

Please share Disk Management snaps for case specific instructions!

Vineet Garg
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