I own two LIVA-X mini computers. Dual core Celerons with mSata drives and DDR3 soldered in RAM as well onboard Intel HD graphics. They are both used as TV DVR media players and they do that job very well. One is running Win10 Pro and the other is running Win8.1 with Media Center. I have kept the 8.1 with Media center because it works well OTA without a Silicon Dust annual subscription. so if that went south I could always keep using MC to record.
These mini PCs have identical components however the 8.1 LIVA has a bigger msata card and twice the ram and is more suited to Win10. The one running Win10 was actually designed for WIn8. The one I have windows 10 on actually has a special msata drive soldered to the board for 8.1. I originally ran Windows 7 with Media Center on it and didn't become aware of the special drive until I did the Win10 free upgrade. It just appeared. There are other issues as well but what I want to do is swap the two OSs. I know I won't have any trouble running wiping the drive of the current Windows Win8.1 computer and installing 10. It has twice the RAM and drive space and I already did a dual boot install that was independent of the current 8.1 license so WIn10 is linked to the BIOS' What I would like to do with the current Win10 computer is wipe the msata drive and then restore a image backup of the 8.1 MC OS onto it. The components are identical except for the serial numbers.. The reason I want to do it this way is because 8.1 MC is no longer licensed or supported by Microsoft. I could do a new install of 8.1 but there is no way to reinstall or bring back MC. I know because I have already been though this. Do you think this approach would work?
