Windows 10: can i start up a new computer with a clone of my current windows 10 pc hard drive?

can i start up a new computer with a clone of my current windows 10 pc hard drive?

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What about cloning the current hard drive? Would that preserve all the currently installed programs?

You start your own thread here.

These are not chat rooms.

You can clone the hard drive, but you only do that as a backup to make it easier and quicker to reinstall on the same computer, if there is file corruption or hard drive failure/upgrading.

You can't have a clone saved on an external hard drive and start opening programs from it.

And you can't install a clone on a different computer due to different hardware and license transfer restrictions.

 

How to clone a hard drive?

I'm a little confused about one thing with this guide.

If my existing HDD is unplugged, and the only thing plugged in is my new, blank, SSD...where is the system image being stored for Windows to restore from?

Edit: I missed the part where it says you'll need an extra HDD to do this, my bad. Do you know if an external HDD would work to store the system image on?

 

Cloning from 1TB to 2TB hard drive

In the search on the start menu type backup. There will be one option that says "backup computer" click on it. Then on the left you can click on create system image. That will make a clone of your current state of your hdd. I use it all the time. You will need another hdd to save the image. Then you can write the image to any hdd and have everything the way it was when you made the image. It's a nice feature in 7.