Windows 10 System Image Backup Efficacy

[KelvinK]

I might be selling my PC if I can get enough for it.

I would like to know if anyone here has experience with using Windows 10 System Image for backuping up your Windows installation with all its settings, programs, their configurations, and everything else? How well does it work? Is it necessary for me to test it before I sell? Thanks in advance. I need to know because setting my up my PC in its current configuration took ages.

Also is R100 enough for anyone here willing to give me an estimate as to what I can get for it in its current condition if I were to provide a list of parts and relative age, selling the complete thing as a whole? Thanks in advance.

 

[souljazk]

1. Always test anything thats NB to you or expensive to buy/replace .
2. Use Macrium Reflect free edition and make a CLONE (not an image) of your drive. This is a carbon copy. Win10 is pretty good at reconfiguring itself to work on different hardware, but its not guranteed. One way around that issue is to clone, test clone and then run DISM which will strip drivers and OS licensing info.
3. Copy critical data to atleast 1 other drive (aka 2 drives min)

 

[el3venth]

I would just remove the SSD/HDD from the PC and sell it without it.
When you get your new PC, boot from the old SSD, then clone into the new SSD.

I just did this using CloneZilla Open Source to clone the drive from an SATA SSD to a NVMe drive.
I recently upgraded using by just moving the SSD.

And I second @souljazk. I would copy critical data to the cloud.