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    Clone Raspberry Pi SD Card To PC Hard Drive?

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      McJones9631
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      So I've had a Raspberry Pi 3B+ running my arcade cabinet for awhile, but I want more power and the ability to play some arcade games the Pis can't handle. I'm upgrading to a HP 8300 Elite computer I got from a used computer site. Can I clone the contents of my Pi's SD card to the new SSD in the laptop so I can avoid redoing all the setup?

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        mitu Global Moderator
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        No, the operating systems are not compatible - they have different CPUs and you can't run the same version on both. You can backup and restore your configs and roms from a system to another - see https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Updating-RetroPie/#backup-option-2 - if you wish to keep your ROMs/BIOS/configs/etc.

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