Windows 10: Loading system image or external harddrive to new laptop

Hi community

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I admittedly do not know much about laptops. I had an old Asus laptop that lasted 6 years until it became very, very slow. I would have tried to salvage the speed but it was also in rough physical condition so I began hunting for an affordable laptop that would get me through my postgrad fall classes on a budget. Here I am now with a refurbished (Microsoft certified refurbishing co) Dell Latitude E7440 from Amazon that just came in the mail.


Now for the question: I knew enough to make a system image of my old laptop on an external TB harddrive, but am unsure of the best way to load it on to the Dell. Will loading it verbatim cause the slow processes of my Asus to load onto the Dell? Do I pick through and copy what I want piece by piece (I mostly want my paid apps like Office/Word, some documents and music). Is there a faster way to do this, such as selecting documents and apps in groups? Last of all, would a partition help me organize all of this and do I need to create one in the external harddrive?


Thank you in advance!

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Restore Windows 10 System Image to new harddrive error 0x80042302

Good evening. My harddrive crashed, but I have a system image on another harddrive. I pit the new harddrive in and inserted the Windows 10 Recovery CD. When it starts the system restore, I get the following error message:

A Volume Shadow Copy Service component encountered an unexpected error. Check the application event log for more information. (0x80042302).

Can anyone help with this? I REALLY need to get this back up asap.

Thanks

Radio Guy

 

System Image Problem


Hi Nick,

No need to stress.
Since the dl of the windows install media failed twice in a row already we are going to do as Bill suggests.
No use wasting another day on it at this point.

Here is a description of the steps to follow:

- Connect the external drive that contains the Macrium images we made.

-Boot off of the Macrium rescue CD. Make the necessary changes in bios so booting from CD is the highest on the boot order priority list or use the machine's bootmenu (Fn key ? ) to select to boot off of CD.

- From within Macrium select restore. Browse for image 0_SysRes etc. and load it in Macrium.

- Select the drive to restore to: your c: drive. Make sure it is the correct drive. Only one internal drive should be connected at this point.

-Drag and drop the loaded backup image to the beginning of the C:\ partition. It must be fully at the left of the partition.

- Click restore and confirm.

- Once it has finished close Macrium. It will automatically reboot.

-Boot again off of the CD.

-Macrium loads and select restore again.

-Browse for and select 1_Windows from the backup drive. Select the same destination drive and drag and drop it right next to the small partition we just restored. Click restore, confirm the overwrite and let it finish.

-Again close Macrium and reboot once more off of the cd.

-In Macrium on the top left hand side there a menu option that reads something along these lines (I'll load it in a few minutes to verify and correct if necessary) : "Fix Windows boot problems".
Click it.

-Let it finish and reboot off the main hard drive this time.

- Cross your fingers and hopefully Windows will start up.


I suggest not doing this immediately. I hope Bill will have a look at the suggested steps and correct any if need be.

Best, *Wink

 

System Image Problem


I'm getting a head start in case you get on early.

Can you post camera pics to your thread from your phone?

There will be steps later that require attention to detail and I'd feel better if I could see what's on your screen. I had to try the steps more than once when I tested the process and I'd like to avoid that on your machine.

Here's what I'd like to do for the Macrium Rescue steps later on in the process
I'll post the the step, you'll post an picture of the Macrium screen,
I'll echo same screen back if I see something that needs changing or I'll just say Go Ahead

When I confirm that the Macrium screen, you'll make any changes I've highlighted and THEN execute the step

Here's where you begin today's session, we'll get as far as we get and then pick up when you get back home.

Step 1: Safeguard the System Image by moving it to a new folder

1. Connect the Seagate exp drive
   
   
2. File Explorer: Navigate to the Seagate drive
   
   
3. Create a new Folder named 1_sysImage
   
   
4. Move WindowsImageBackup to 1_sysImage

Step 2: List the VHDs in the System Image

1. File Explorer: Navigate to 1_sysImage\WindowsImageBackup\machineName\Backup date-time
   
   
2. Press the Type column to sort by Type
   
   
3. Post a screen shot