The image assistant page says it will work from any image. if you need further details id email them or check if they have a forum for questions.Looking through their website, it almost seems that you need to use the software when you have the old machine and the new machine.
I don't have the old, all i have is an image on USB drive.
Will it with with my scenario?
I would say to give it a try. If it doesn't work out, you can just refresh the device. Windows will hopefully detect the hardware changes and install the appropriate drivers. I have changed motherboards/processors on machines without reinstalling Windows. Windows goes through its "Found new hardware" gyrations, and any drivers not installed automatically are usually easy enough to install manually.I gave my son my SP3 i5. Before i did, i made an image using the MS file history/image process.
Can I restore this i5 image onto my i7 that i will get any day now?
If you are worried about accidentally wiping the recovery partition, you could back up the recovery partition to a USB drive and use that in the event of any mishaps. Just make sure you can boot from your USB drive after creating the recovery drive. The first drive I tried would not boot.So I am afraid to try and reimage from the i5 image as it may mess up the i7 permanently with respect to factory restore.
Any thoughts?
I'm not sure what exactly that imaging program does, but here are a couple of things you may want to know:I gave my son my SP3 i5. Before i did, i made an image using the MS file history/image process.
Can I restore this i5 image onto my i7 that i will get any day now?
When i go through the process on the i5 to create a recovery USB drive it does so successfully.If you are worried about accidentally wiping the recovery partition, you could back up the recovery partition to a USB drive and use that in the event of any mishaps. Just make sure you can boot from your USB drive after creating the recovery drive. The first drive I tried would not boot.
Thanks.It has to be FAT32 and you need to make sure legacy USB is enabled for it to boot....
Start from a bootable USB device when Surface is off
1:Attach a bootable USB device to the USB port.
2: Press and hold the volume-down (–) rocker.
3:Press and release the power button.
4: When the Surface logo appears, release the volume rocker. Surface will start the software on your USB device.
Thanks.
If one is to make a bootable USB, when using the make recovery disk function in windows, it reformats the USB (FAT32) but its no longer bootable. :-(