J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Paul
writes:
Ant wrote:
Hello.
According to
https://www.howtogeek.com/239312/how...age-backups-on
-windows-7-8-and-10/, it says you can't restore a back up to another
PC. Is that true?
Thank you for reading and I hope to get answers soon.

There's two levels of concern.

1) Flat out fails to restore. The program tells you in
no uncertain terms, it will not listen to your request.

(Which program is telling you this?)
[big snip - all useful stuff, marked here to keep. And Mayayayana's post
too.]

Well, as an example, a Macrium 5 emergency boot CD
would not restore a Macrium 6 MRIMG backup.

That's not what the HowToGeek article is about.

I only made my levels of concern model, to show
possible outcomes. Booting and licensing issues might
be considered "a problem for a redeploy scenario".
Even if your trim level of Macrium didn't support
Redeploy, it could still say something like
"you know, this here image I'm restoring, won't
boot on this machine". But that doesn't take
all the possible outcomes into account, such as
the user moving the drive to the correct computer
chassis when the restore is completed.

For example, I sometimes do restores on my Typing
Computer, then move the drive to the Test Computer.
Such a status message if delivered, wouldn't
do me a lot of good.

There aren't a lot of reasons for a (1) situation
to arise. Macrium versioning is an orthogonal
issue that looks like a (1). Just to demonstrate
you can be stopped by some trivial details.

Paul