Specifically, without using ASR, you can perform a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) to freshly formatted boot volumes and system volumes on the same server that the original backup was taken from. To restore Windows 7-based computers, the preferred method is a full system restore. The preferred method to restore Windows 7 Even if the source and destination computers seem to be identical makes and models, the source computers may have different drivers, hardware, or firmware than the destination computers. We only provide commercially reasonable efforts to support this process. However, we do not support restoring a system state backup from one computer to a second computer of a different make, model, or hardware configuration. You can restore a system state backup to the same physical computer from which the system state backup was created, or to a different physical computer that has the same make, model, and configuration (identical hardware). To recover from one of these problems, you can restore the Microsoft Windows operating system from a system state backup. One of the following problems may occur with your computer:

This article describes how to create a system state backup on one computer and how to restore it to the same computer or to a different physical computer of the same make and model.Īpplies to: Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2012 R2 Original KB number: 249694 Summary

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