Thanks for the reply Kyhi but its way above my head, can you point to some more basic reading so I can get my head around it?

The image is a complete copy of the old computer's content: os, progs, data etc, I did an additional copy of the data as a precaution as I had never done an image restore before. I also thought it...

Sorry for the delay in replying ...( too crook to look at a computer :sick: )
Thanks for the suggestions but I had already arrived at that point (mounted disk), how do I overwrite the existing oem...

Can I install a vhdx image backup file from an old computer (win 10) onto a new one?
I no longer have access to the old computer.

From my internet reading it would appear that virtualization...