Swapping drive from older Thinkpad to newer one?

[matt167]

My sister in law has an older Thinkpad Yoga with a 6300U. Similar to my T470 in specs. Her keyboard went bad and the windows install borked itself last week. I reset the install and got it running again keeping her files and stuff. She wants a new computer since she has had to use another keyboard with it for a while now.

I told her to buy something a slight bit older since for the most part it’s used for internet and office. I found T495 laptops are really cheap. She does want to stay with Lenovo. Could I clone the windows install from the old Yoga to a T495 w/ a Ryzen and have it work? I noticed she had Epic games launcher and Fortnite files so she must have tried to play that at one time. A 3250U just might be able to.

I know it works with Dells pretty much 100% of the time. But I don’t do that much with Lenovo

 

[pendragon1]

My sister in law has an older Thinkpad Yoga with a 6300U. Similar to my T470 in specs. Her keyboard went bad and the windows install borked itself last week. I reset the install and got it running again keeping her files and stuff. She wants a new computer since she has had to use another keyboard with it for a while now.

I told her to buy something a slight bit older since for the most part it’s used for internet and office. I found T495 laptops are really cheap. She does want to stay with Lenovo. Could I clone the windows install from the old Yoga to a T495 w/ a Ryzen and have it work? I noticed she had Epic games launcher and Fortnite files so she must have tried to play that at one time. A 3250U just might be able to.

I know it works with Dells pretty much 100% of the time. But I don’t do that much with Lenovo

yup, if its 10/11 and there are no tpm passwords involved it will do the "setting up new hardware" thing a couple times and should fire right up. then you remove old and install new drivers. tell windows activation that you change hardware, if it gives you grief.

 

[matt167]

Cool. Looks like she ordered a T480 with 8th gen I7. I just didn’t want to tell her I could do that and then end up with an uh-oh. I do it with Dells all the time now. I can set up an install on my living room computer and batch it out to any Dell I put in service..