Supported scenarios and minimum requirements

USMT does not have any explicit or its own CPU, RAM, graphics or HDD requirements. It relies furthermore on the system requirements of the operating system it is executed on. If you do not use hard-link migration or external disk or network path, the hard drives must have sufficient space to contain the migration store, whether compressed or not. Additionally, it will need some temporary space. If unsure, you can estimate the needed space by using scanstate.exe /p.

Note

USMT supports migration to the same OS or a newer OS, but it does not support migration to an older OS. It supports migrating from 32-bit to 32-bit, 32-bit to 64-bit and 64-bit to 64-bit. It does not support migrating from 64-bit to 32-bit. ARM is completely unsupported and so you cannot migrate from any ARM edition nor to any ARM edition.

The following table lists the operating systems supported in USMT 5.0:

Operating System

ScanState (Source PC)

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