I was Googling like crazy, and all the results lead me to people who want to try using a system image to restore their system to a new pc.
That’s not what I am proposing. Instead, I want to copy my files — primarily documents and media (which I keep on the C partition) — to a new pc, and thought connecting a system image as a virtual drive, and then copying from that to the user file areas on my new pc, might be an efficient way to do the documents migration.
For one thing, with this method I would have to copy only one large file (the system image) from the usb drive to the new pc’s SSD. That alone, I’m thinking, would be quicker than copying many thousands of smaller files from the USB drive to the new pc.
Any thoughts on whether this approach makes any sense?
I use R-Drive Image, which has similar capabilities to Macrium Reflect. Also, as an FYI, regardless of my transfer method I’ll use Beyond Compare for copying because it has an option to preserve creation dates for files (not folders, but that’s of less importance to me).
