“Restore data from hard drive My old Win 7 laptop is dead. I have a backup disc drive created with Casper, how would I copy from the HD directly to a Surface Pro 2?”
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Hi JP, though I don't have specific experience with Casper, but I have used different enterprise-level imaging tools, I would recommend against this attempt, mainly because you would probably end up spending (wasting) lot of time getting all the old drivers, software and system parameters/settings to function properly in the new hardware. But from a technical standpoint, you probably need a bootable USB stick to boot up and start Casper tool and then re-image the Surface Pro 2's SSD from the backup disk drive, but there is only one USB port, the bootable USB stick needs to have enough space to hold the image backup. This is going to tiring for you, sigh!
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.If it is the system backup discs it will not work. OEM backups recognize whether or not the system is the same as the origination system. That being said, if you copy the ISO to a USB drive (or plug an external optical drive via the USB port) and run the file on the Surface Pro 2 you can try. Personally, using other OS besides Win8 is a waste of money. If you need something running Win7, you can purchase a new laptop with Win8 and follow the downgrade procedure from Microsoft. Hope this helps!
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