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Backup from win7 to harddisk with win10

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Post by Marod » Sun Mar 01, 2020 3:52 pm

Hi
Is it possible to use a backup from 123epg from win7 in win10 on the same computer, only with two different , because if i do, wmc on win 10 says „no tuner (signal) “ available.

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Post by choliscott » Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:00 pm

Marod wrote:Hi
Is it possible to use a backup from 123epg from win7 in win10 on the same computer, only with two different , because if i do, WMC on win 10 says „no tuner (signal) “ available.
Can you clarify your question? EPG123 it's for serving guide information. It wouldn't be the cause of no tuner signal issues

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Post by Marod » Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:38 pm

Thats why i asked, because i tryed it and then wmc on win10 said no tuner, and i only took the backup and the epg file from win7 and restored it in win10.
I don’t understand either why it doesn’t funktion.

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Post by garyan2 » Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:18 pm

The restore will not work between 2 different OS installs because the tuner GUIDs will be different. When you restored the Win7 backup on the Win10 machine, it looks like it works but WMC is "configured" to use different tuners (different GUIDs). The backup file will still be good to use for transferring your recording requests using the Transfer Tool.
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Post by garyan2 » Sun Mar 01, 2020 6:20 pm

If you want to manually get it to work, take a look at this thread. viewtopic.php?f=99&t=12004&p=129596#p129596

I haven't done any coding to try this automatically... there are a lot of things to take into account if I want to scale it up.
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Post by Marod » Sun Mar 01, 2020 7:13 pm

Ok, thanks for answers.

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