Question Restore win10 Aomei bakeup on a different hardware

Jun 24, 2024
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Hi all. I have windows 10 pro installed on a Beelink SER5 minipc (Ryzen 5 5560U), and i made a system bakeup with AOMEI bakeupper. What I would like to do is restore this bakeup on my laptop (Lenovo thinkpad e14 with intel i5 10210u).
The mini PC was bought new and used for only a month, I did a clean install of Windows 10 on that and the only drivers I manually installed were those for the chipset and the integrated gpu, plus maybe something else installed automatically by windows.
What I was thinking of doing after the restore was to simply uninstall the chipset driver (which I don't know how to do), uninstall the integrated graphics driver (for this I was thinking of using AMD Cleanup Utility but I don't know if this software works on an Intel hardware, or if it possible from the win10 uninstall tool that you can find on Select Start > Settings > Apps > Apps & features ), and then install the Dell laptop drivers, which can be downloaded from the official Lenovo website.
Do you have any additional suggestions on how to uninstall old drivers?
Do you think that the laptop performance after doing this process, will significantly worsen than the laptop performance in case I make a clean install of Windows 10 directly on it?
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I have windows 10 pro installed on a Beelink SER5 minipc (Ryzen 5 5560U), and i made a system bakeup with AOMEI bakeupper. What I would like to do is restore this bakeup on my laptop (Lenovo thinkpad e14 with intel i5 10210u).
That is almost certain to fail.

Both the Beelink and the laptop came with their own OS's.

Just install the applications you want/need on the laptop, and move on.
 
The alternative would be to do a clean install onto the laptop.

How much time do you think it would save you by attempting to put the Beelink image on the laptop? I assume that is your motivation?

3 hours? 10? 50?
 
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That is almost certain to fail.

Both the Beelink and the laptop came with their own OS's.

Just install the applications you want/need on the laptop, and move on.
Thanks for you reply. Actually i think a made a clean install of win10 on the laptop, and i'm sure i made a clean install of win10 on the mini pc. I'm little bite paranoid with preinstalled software that's why i usually format all and make a clean install when i buy a new pc. This question about 'own OS of the minipc, and own OS of the laptop' is surprising me (i'm not expert), can you explain it better please? Why do you think it will fail? Thanks :)
 

USAFRet

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Thanks for you reply. Actually i think a made a clean install of win10 on the laptop, and i'm sure i made a clean install of win10 on the mini pc. I'm little bite paranoid with preinstalled software that's why i usually format all and make a clean install when i buy a new pc. This question about 'own OS of the minipc, and own OS of the laptop' is surprising me (i'm not expert), can you explain it better please? Why do you think it will fail? Thanks :)
It will fail, due to the completely different hardware between Beelink and laptop.

A Windows install is not modular, to be moved across different hardware.

Having done a clean OS install on the laptop, what is it you're wanting to "move" from the Beelink to the laptop?
 
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The alternative would be to do a clean install onto the laptop.

How much time do you think it would save you by attempting to put the Beelink image on the laptop? I assume that is your motivation?

3 hours? 10? 50?
The reason is that there are some settinng on the mini pc OS that were not made by me, so i don't know how to replicate it. In addition, this test is only to check how a specific software run on my laptop, by using a sencond ssd that i would use on the laptpop only for this test. Is not about use this configuration lifetime

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USAFRet

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The reason is that there are some settinng on the mini pc OS that were not made by me, so i don't know how to replicate it. In addition, this test is only to check how a specific software run on my laptop, by using a sencond ssd that i would use on the laptpop only for this test. Is not about use this configuration lifetime

@USAFRet

Then install that specific software on the laptop. See how it runs.

Trying to move the OS over will introduce all sorts of issues, if it even works at all (unlikely).
 
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