Question I want to restore one image of two drives to one drive

[David_652]

I have a backup in Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16.5 Advanced. The single image includes two drives. I want to restore the images to one drive on another PC. When I'm done, I want Windows from the one drive and apps from the other drive from the one image to live on the one drive on the other PC, working together. Is this a common procedure? How should I go about it?

If not, how do I install just the drive with the Apps etc onto the new drive, which currently has Windows, knowing the Apps drive is in an image with two drives? The same Paragon software is on both PCs.

Both systems are up to date with Windows 10 64 bit.

 

[kanewolf]

I have a backup in Paragon Hard Disk Manager 16.5 Advanced. The single image includes two drives. I want to restore the images to one drive on another PC. When I'm done, I want Windows from the one drive and apps from the other drive from the one image to live on the one drive on the other PC, working together. Is this a common procedure? How should I go about it?

If not, how do I install just the drive with the Apps etc onto the new drive, which currently has Windows, knowing the Apps drive is in an image with two drives? The same Paragon software is on both PCs.

Both systems are up to date with Windows 10 64 bit.

Taking a windows install from one set of hardware to another is not guaranteed to boot AT ALL. Let alone be stable.
I would probably test just this part. Taking the C: drive from the old hardware and getting it to work on the new. You might just stop there.

BUT, if that works, you probably want to partition your one physical drive into two logical drives and restore the two drives from the original host to the two partitions on the new host. That way all the registry entries that have D:\somepath will still be D:\somepath on the new host.

 

[David_652]

Thank you. The purpose is to have the install on the other PC become a backup PC for use incase the PC the image was made from dies. It's fine right now.

 

[kanewolf]

Thank you. The purpose is to have the install on the other PC become a backup PC for use incase the PC the image was made from dies. It's fine right now.

Unless they are the exact same motherboard and BIOS version there is no guarantee of booting.

 

[David_652]

What if I make an image of just the D drive on the first PC, which is not a bootable drive, and restore to the next PC? What are the methods and challenges in that case?

 

[kanewolf]

What if I make an image of just the D drive on the first PC, which is not a bootable drive, and restore to the next PC? What are the methods and challenges in that case?

Non programs (data files) will transfer just fine. Programs will not function.

 

[USAFRet]

And this highlights the fallacy of wanting to split the OS and programs to two different drives or partitions.