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Transferring or Restoring WIN 10 system on an new WIN 11 computer
My Dell E5430 Laptop (2013) stopped working because the fan died and the processor overheated. The Laptop has an i5 processor running WIN 10 Home from a Crucial 525GB SATA 2.5" SSD. I have just purchased a new desktop replacement, Dell XPS 8940, with an i7 processor running WIN 11 Home, with one 256GB SSD and one 1 TB HD. I would like to avoid reinstalling several dozen installed programs (e.g., MS Office 2019, Word Perfect, Adobe Acrobat Pro, and smaller). Which of these three options will be best to try:
1. Moving my WIN 10 SSD to the XPS computer and boot from it. (Is that possible these days? Years ago, it was said that you couldn’t move on HD to a new computer with a different motherboard.)
2. Restoring the WIN 10 Home system on the WIN 11 Home computer using either of the two backups I made: I have a WindowsImageBackup and a Macrium backup of the Laptop.
PS. I discovered that I could get the laptop to work, even tho the fan died, by blowing air from a hair dryer (set to ‘cool air’) beneath the laptop. I also considered replacing the fan, but youtube videos showed it’s too much work, so I bought the new computer instead.