Instead, I was content to let the laptop be a Win10 Home machine. I wasn’t keen to make that investment in this laptop. To register the laptop as a Win10 Pro machine, so that the Pro clone could be activated, I would need to use or buy an upgrade key. The desktop used Win10 Professional, whereas the laptop’s activated installation was Win10 Home. I had mostly had good experiences with AOMEI Backupper, so I tended to use that.īut even if the desktop system worked after cloning onto the laptop, I wouldn’t be able to activate it. I could have cloned the desktop system over to the laptop, using one of the system clone tools on my Kyhi USB drive. At least two of them had the “universal restore” or “dissimilar hardware” feature that would enable them to restore a working image of a Windows installation from one computer onto a different computer, so that the cloned system would work without significant driver issues. The laptop came with a basic Windows 10 installation. A later post significantly improves upon and upgrades this one. A slight adjustment, and the process worked. It turned out that my Win10 Pro installation was too new. To achieve that, I used steps recommended by multiple sources. I wanted to copy it over from the desktop to the laptop, and then activate it using the product key for the laptop’s Win10 Home installation.
I didn’t want to have to go through all that again to have a similar system on my laptop. I had a fully configured Windows 10 Professional installation on my desktop computer.
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