Hi a newbie here, I'm typing this on my iPad because my PC had died, I am currently waiting for my new PC to be delivered, fortunately I created a system image only a couple of weeks ago, has anyone any experience of restoring there image backup on a brand new PC? While googling I have noticed a few comments that sometimes there are some issues when not restoring back to The same hardware? Obviously I would prefer to simply restore it straight to the new PC but saying that if there is a chance of an issue I would rather reinstall everything manually as I do have separate backups of most of my important stuff. Thanks!Yes, you can! No, you can't!

An image backup is stable for restoring to the same hardware.

A file-by-file backup lets you pick the files to recover.

Here is a workaround. If you have enough dire space. You do an image restore to a spare hard drive, or a partition LARGE enough. Then you pick out the files you need.

Unfortunately, you can't easily restore program files, just data files. The exception is some programs that do not require installation, the just run. Few commercial programs are like that.

In short, you can GET interpersonal data back, but you have to re-install most of your programs.

Yeah, I know, there are some packages out there that claim they can transfer all your stuff. But I don't believe it.Quote from: Simmy on July 04, 2012, 02:56:50 AM

Hi a newbie here, I'm typing this on my iPad because my PC had died, I am currently waiting for my new PC to be delivered, fortunately I created a system image only a couple of weeks ago, has anyone any experience of restoring there image backup on a brand new PC? While googling I have noticed a few comments that sometimes there are some issues when not restoring back to The same hardware? Obviously I would prefer to simply restore it straight to the new PC but saying that if there is a chance of an issue I would rather reinstall everything manually as I do have separate backups of most of my important stuff. Thanks!