Windows system and data to a new (different transfer )

 

Windows system and data to a new (different

transfer

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computer Built-in tool in OS (Windows Transfer)

The easiest way. Migrate Windows 7. Location in the operating system of

the backup tool: "Start | All programs | Service | Archiving and

Restoration. The menu in the column on the left is "Create a system

recovery disk" and "Create a system image"

Creating a system image

must specify the location where the data will be archived: select another

disk partition, external HDD or optical disk (DVD, Blue Ray). It also has

the ability to save a backup to a network drive. It is not practical to

use optical media, so use a logical drive with sufficient storage space or

an external HDD to store the backup. Select a location and click the

"Archive" button. After the archiving procedure is completed, boot on

another computer from the Windows 7 installation disk (or from the ERD

Commander 6.5 boot disk, I described how to create such a disk or how to

make a bootable USB flash drive with ERD Commander here), after disconnecting it from the old one, and connecting a USB HDD or

any another media of your choice that contains the system image. Select

System Restore and select the disk with the Windows 7 image. Now wait for

the recovery process to finish and reboot, remembering to set the BIOS to

boot from the hard disk.

This built-in tool in Windows is not without drawbacks, such as a long

time to create an archive and the lack of a compression function. However,

there are other, more functional products.

Cloning the operating system

copy of an old hard drive can be transferred to a new computer using a

backup utility or through virtualization. In this case, Windows and

applications will be available immediately, without reinstallation.

You've got a new PC running Windows 7, but you don't want to part with

your old PC's customized Windows XP and all your applications. Then you

need a copy of the system partition, which includes the boot sector (boot

sector), which is necessary to start the OS.

To physically clone an old computer's hard drive, install Paragon Drive

Copy 11 on it - this is a solution for backing up, restoring and migrating

systems in physical and virtual Windows environments, that is, it will not

be difficult to transfer Windows from one computer to another.

Paragon Drive Copy 11 supports all existing backup technologies. As a

result, the user has more than seven ways to create backups and a whole

range of archive storage options: from CD / DVD / Blu-ray media to FTP

servers.

In the 11th line, the system recovery functionality has been expanded,

which now allows you to return the PC to working capacity not only using

boot disks based on Linux / DOS and WinPE 2.1, but also by migrating and

deploying the system to another hardware platform (P2P) or to any virtual

environment (P2V ). Paragon Drive Copy 11 functions correctly in all

popular types of virtual machines, including MS Virtual PC, VMware

Workstation and VMware Fusion. There is support for USB 3.0 devices.

Transferring Windows with Paragon Drive Copy

Open the program and call "Backup disk or partition". Select the

partition you want to clone and check the "Change backup settings" box. In

the next dialog box, under "Archiving settings | Compression level ”, you

must select the entry“ No compression ”and check that the option“ Direct

access to partition sectors ”is activated in the“ Copy settings

”section.

It is more convenient to transfer data using an external HDD, but if you

do not have one, you can use network drives or burn data to Blu-ray

discs.

Data archiving. Choosing a location for data recovery: creating a

partition

When the copy is created, transfer it to a new computer. If you want to

keep the modern OS installed there, create a new partition for Windows XP

and integrate it into the Windows bootloader selection menu. To do this,

first install Paragon on a new computer. Launch and select "Additional Archiving Operations". Paragon Drive Copy will show the partitions available on the disk in a

new window. If there is an area that satisfies the size and is not

partitioned into disks, right-click on it and select "Create Partition".

Its volume should not be less than the copied archive from Windows XP. If

the new computer has only one large Windows partition, it must first be

made smaller. In the Paragon program, unfortunately, you will not be able

to do this. Therefore, use an additional partition utility, such as Partition Wizard Professional Edition 5.0.

When the partition for a copy of Windows XP is ready, click on it in the

"Backup & Recovery" program and select "Restore a logical drive from

an archive." Click on "Switch to File Viewer" and select the desired

archive. Follow further instructions. Finally, copy the clone to the new

system using the "Run" button.

Now you can start your old computer through the Windows bootloader - a

utility from Paragon brought it there under the name "Microsoft Windows".

It's better to rename it with the EasyBCD. Click in its interface on "Edit Boot Menu" and select the above entry.

The "Rename" function will allow you to set a more informative name.

Data archiving. Alternative Solution: Virtual Clone

Use the Virtualization Operations section of the program to turn your old

PC into a virtual machine and run it on the new PC. Select "P2V Copy" to

create a virtual copy of your computer. In the wizard, be sure to select

the "Microsoft Virtual PC" option, even if you're using VirtualBox. Launch

"P2V OS setup". On the new PC, install the VirtualBox utility and

double-click on the VMC file to launch the copy.

Online storage for PC. Image of your system on the network

If you have a fast Internet connection, it is possible to place a copy of

your old computer on online disks. You will not only transfer data to a

new system, but you will be able to restore it after a failure.

Notebook users who are concerned about the safety of their data should

save them online: if the device and external hard drive are stolen, this

will help you restore the system on another computer, but before you put

your data in web storage, you need to take care of security.

The most important factor in the successful implementation of the plan is

a sufficient amount of free space for a clone of the system.online storage

is quite suitable Windows Live SkyDrive

25 GB

Learn more about Microsoft's Windows Live Skydrive storage

With SkyDrive, you can create three different types of web-accessible

folders (these folders are stored on a server managed by Microsoft):

• 
  
  
  
  personal folders that only the creator has access to;
  
  
• 
  
  
  
  public folders with restricted access assigned by their creator to
  certain individuals to whom files are provided;
  
  
• 
  
  
  
  public folders with unlimited access, which can be opened via the
  Internet by anyone.
  
  

Once registered, you will be able to:

• 
  
  
  
  Access your free 25 GB storage from any computer connected to the
  Internet or from any web-enabled mobile device. With an additional
  program, you can even drag and drop files directly from your computer
  to SkyDrive. The presence of this application provides convenient
  downloading and synchronization of files to the server. Some do not
  accept the ubiquitous web interface and prefer to use the familiar
  win-shells.
  
  
• 
  
  
  
  Free. To date, almost all services of this type are free to some
  extent, only a few resort to micropayments for expanding
  functionality. Nevertheless, in the age of capitalism and the global
  financial crisis, the absence of any payment for such a service can be
  safely attributed to the merits.
  
  
• 
  
  
  
  Own folder structure. Storage of any types of files. Ability to link
  accounts. Direct links to folders.
  
  

Windows Live Skydrive

To create a copy, you can use the Paragon Drive Copy program presented in

the previous section. You can repeat the above process, and also use the

proposed backup archive compression function - this will significantly

reduce the upload and download time. You can also clone your old computer

with Paragon's Virtualization Operation by creating a virtual copy of the

system and then hosting it online. The generated image can be downloaded

at any time and run in VirtualBox. But before that, it does not hurt to

encrypt a copy using the TrueCrypt.

Secure Data Encryption

Some online storages offer their own encryption feature. I recommend

performing this operation on your computer in order to initially exclude

the possibility of access to an unprotected clone during the download or

immediately after it for particularly cautious users.

After successfully creating a copy of the old computer, install TrueCrypt

and the corresponding localization file. Create an encrypted image of a

folder or

disk by placing it on a local or external HDD. To do this, launch

TrueCrypt and use the "Create volume" menu item to place the encoded file

container on the selected disk. Choose a medium-strength algorithm such as

"Serpent" because too strong encryption will adversely affect upload and

download speeds. To place files in a ready-made container, you need to

connect the latter as a disk. In the main window of the TrueCrypt

interface, select any letter and use the "File" button to navigate to your

container. Click "Mount" and enter the password. In Windows Explorer you

will see a new local drive where you can put your PC clone. Terminate the

connection with the TrueCrypt program and navigate to the new computer

where you want to install the system clone. Install TrueCrypt on this PC

and connect an external drive with an encrypted container to it. Then

mount the file container as a new local drive as above and open it in

Windows Explorer. Now you can import the clone.

If you use online storage to host an encrypted container, then in order

to prevent it from being constantly downloaded by TrueCrypt, in the

"Settings - Options" item, you must check the "Save modification date for

container files" checkbox.

Situation #1: new computer, identical operating systems

If you replaced your old (previous) PC with a device with a similar OS,

data transfer is very fast using the backup protocol created by the Ocster Backup.

Since standard folders such as My Documents are the same in old and new

versions of Windows, you only need to select the desired copy in the

Ocster utility and restore it using the wizard. If the computer failed

before you created the current backup, use the program calendar to refer

to an earlier version of the backup. Be sure to activate the "Use default

access permissions" option. Otherwise, the new OS will not get access to

the data due to the lack of the necessary rights for this. In addition, in

the wizard, you can click on the backup folder and selectively restore

files.

Situation #2: New PC, Different Version of Windows OS

If you are upgrading your client PC to a more modern device with the

latest OS version, you will have to deal with its peculiarities. For

example, in XP, your profile files are stored in the C:\Documents and

Settings\username folder, while in Vista and Windows 7 they are stored in

C:\User\username.

For such cases, Ocster Backup offers a small number of settings, so you

will have to download the Windows Easy Transfer program (link above).

However, it is worth mentioning some limitations. You will not be able to

transfer personal data using this utility if the versions of Windows on

the old and new computers have different localizations, and there may be

problems with transferring data from a 64-bit system to a 32-bit

one.

Windows 7 already has this program built in. This way you will be able to

seamlessly import all settings to a new computer using the same

wizard.

How to Transfer Windows to an SSD

Special Situation: Transferring Windows from IDE or SATA to an SSD

Hard drives store data on tracks divided into sectors. There is no such

breakdown in SSD. When you install Windows 7 on a solid state drive, the

operating system takes into account the peculiarities of flash memory, but

when you import a clone of an old computer, such a drive will be about

half as slow, because most backup utilities save the clone according to

the old sector logic.

Program for transferring Windows to SSD

Paragon offers Drive Copy 11 Professionalthat allows you to correctly transfer a system clone (system image) to a

solid state drive. It's very tempting to take advantage of the latest,

faster and quieter SSDs. But the capacities of affordable SSDs are

limited, and in most cases, your system partition will be larger than

you'd like. The Migrate OS to SSD option of this program is a unique way

to migrate only the files you need to run Windows, eliminating everything

else, in order to migrate your system to an SSD or any other smaller

drive.

Using a 3TB disk (the system does not see the entire volume of a 3TB HDD)

If

you own a hard disk with an increased capacity - more than 2.2 TB, you

may encounter an inability of your system to use all the free space (full

volume). Reason: The traditional MBR partitioning method does not provide

for this possibility. But Drive Copy 11 Professional will come to the

rescue again, which will allow you to transfer the system and use the new

3TB hard drive for the entire volume.

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