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  • Anybody Used Backup and Restore (Windows 7) on Windows 10?

    From Jeff Gaines@jgnewsid@outlook.com to uk.d-i-y on Sat Jul 5 13:20:41 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.d-i-y


    I need to re-install Windows 10 on my main PC. In the good old days of
    Legacy BIOS and MBR this would be a 10 minute job with Acronis True Image, with UEFI, GPT and several partitions it means a full re-install for me.
    Not an issue, my PC is laid out to be restored easily, only annoyance sometimes being getting Office activated.

    However, once I have done this and before I break it again I wondered if
    the old Backup and Restore (Windows 7) works on Windows 10. The official
    MSFT question page has several thousand comments saying it doesn't.

    Anybody have hands on experience and tell me it it does/doesn't work please?
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  • From Adrian@diy@ku.gro.lioff to uk.d-i-y on Sat Jul 5 16:43:04 2025
    From Newsgroup: uk.d-i-y

    In message <xn0p7xr4k1cf0ep004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> writes

    I need to re-install Windows 10 on my main PC. In the good old days of >Legacy BIOS and MBR this would be a 10 minute job with Acronis True
    Image, with UEFI, GPT and several partitions it means a full re-install
    for me. Not an issue, my PC is laid out to be restored easily, only >annoyance sometimes being getting Office activated.

    However, once I have done this and before I break it again I wondered
    if the old Backup and Restore (Windows 7) works on Windows 10. The
    official MSFT question page has several thousand comments saying it
    doesn't.

    Anybody have hands on experience and tell me it it does/doesn't work please?


    I've been using it on a weekly basis for over 6 years, seemingly without
    any problem.

    Adrian
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