ABOUT ME - I have done a few fresh install, i'm not an engineer or comp sci graduate, i understand a little technical stuff. I would love answers that would be understood by a 7 year old - I often do the chat gpt thing, copy paste -> "answer this so year old will understand - if that helps lol
Any way:
I had a Lenova y700i (https://www.lenovo.com/il/en/laptops/ideapad/y700-series/Ideapad-Y700-15/p/88IPY700618?orgRef=https%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252F). i backed it up with windows built in back up (regretfully, I should have used another tool)
For several years now i have been trying, on and off to restore the image to different machines with no joy.
I recently got my hands on a lenova y50(https://laptopaz.vn/laptop-lenovo-gaming-y50-70-core-i7-4710hq-ram-8gb-hdd-1tb-vga-2gb-nvidia-gtx-860m-156-inch-full-hd.html) (this is a Vietnamese site but you can scroll down for specs)
although they look the same the are very different - when i try run BACKUP using the image through the adv options (the blue screen option you get to through settings), when i select the image to back up from, it tells me i need a recovery disk, but i can't make one through windows as the machine done support an optical drive.
i thought about making a recover image by dong a clean install and updating drivers, (i have made a boot-usb with a win 10 clean os and rufus)
looking forwardto answers
Thx for reading, hope to get a reply.
P.S.Background - In fact the original computer was stolen, when i took it for repairs to the mother board, and the guy closed shop and opsconded with my machine!!! i removed the old HDD and ram - I had a 'clean installed' windows on the machines HDD/ The back up i am trying to restore is from before that clean install.