How to boot windows if motherboard is changed

dalchina said:

No you haven't understood the way that program works. And no, there's no such thing as a free lunch here. You pay for the license or you don't get to do the transfer. I'll try to put it simply to explain how it works.

1. You create a disk image of your existing system partition e.g. onto a USB disk.
2. You clean install Windows on a disk inside your PC.
So your PC now has the correct drivers available, hopefully!
3. You install the Laplink or Easeus program
4. You connect the USB disk with the disk image on it to your PC.
5. You run the program, choose the options, and point it at the disk image.
6. You let the program run.
7. The program transfers the programs installed on the disk image, and settings, to your new clean installed Windows.

If you spend a little time looking at the programs' descriptions you would hopefully understand this.

And the license fee is for a one-time use. I think it was around $40 last I looked a few years back- and it saved me a couple of days.

If you have only a few things installed, then you can do it all manually.

It's a question of how much your time is worth to you.

So there are two methods of solving your problem. A third would be to be lucky and have your PC boot up simply by installing the disk from the old PC with correct BIOS settings etc.

But probably the best is a redeploy method which others have mentioned.

For redeployment my reflect usb is not booting on the new mobo

sam9 said:

For redeployment my reflect usb is not booting on the new mobo

At last I am able to boot macrium rescue usb when I made it with win 10 PE. Otherwise it was not booting on new mobo whatever option I choose in BIOS.

sam9 said:

At last I am able to boot macrium rescue usb when I made it with win 10 PE. Otherwise it was not booting on new mobo whatever option I choose in BIOS.

I wonder whether the Macrium USB rescue drive is like that from the commercial Acronis True Image? The normal rescue media made by TI is Linux based, and it won't boot on newer motherboards. The alternative that works is based on Win10 PE.

Incidentally: Acronis has a tool called Universal Restore. Its name is slightly misleading. What it allows you to do is remove drivers from a Windows installation, with the option to include new drivers in the utility. There is a link in Acronis' forums to a utility that can create a limited PE version without having to download and install the Win PE package. https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...TczX25KMHl2RVU

The link is actually for a complete True Image rescue media builder, which includes the "Universal Restore" utility. I don't recall that it wants an Acronis license to run.

I don't know how well it works, but it may be worth a try.

I guess I was lucky. I recently replaced an Intel MB with an AMD one. The old Windows install booted on the new hardware. It also activated online. I found that the AMD board was defective, so I replaced it with another AMD board with the same chipset but otherwise a different model. Booted and ran OK, but I had to go to MS Support to get it activated.