I've had success doing this sort of thing with the Macrium Reflect Home disk imaging product. You can restore an image backup from one machine to a different machine using the product's "redeploy to new hardware" option. The downside is it costs $69.95 (but it is one heck of a good imaging product, so for me it was worth it). Of course if you restore a backed up Windows system to a new one with markedly different hardware, you may have to jump through a few hoops to get it to activate with Microsoft, but I've never had that fail. It just takes a bit of time to go through their (now mostly automated) process to prove you're not a pirate ;-)
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Bob C
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