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Install cloned disk from Surface Laptop 5 to Surface Laptop 7

Doris Edwards 0 Reputation points
2025-08-30T09:46:43.4433333+00:00

I have a Surface Laptop 5 which gave me a BitLocker error. Have unlocked and cloned the disk. Now want to install the cloned data on a new Surface Laptop 7. My technician tried, didn’t work and now tells me that it’s not possible as the Surface Laptop 7 has a different processor i.e. Snapdragon. Is this correct or is there a tool that allows above clone transfer?

Thank you, Doris Edwards

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  1. S.Sengupta 27,571 Reputation points MVP
    2025-11-22T04:31:52.3233333+00:00

    The Surface Laptop 5 uses an x86-64 processor (Intel), while the Surface Laptop 7 uses a Snapdragon ARM processor. These are fundamentally different processor architectures, and Windows installations are architecture-specific. You cannot directly clone or transfer a Windows installation between them.

    So, your technician is correct.Unfortunately, there's no tool that can convert an x86-64 Windows installation to ARM64. You'll need to do a fresh install on the Surface Laptop 7 and migrate your data separately.

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