Eu achei isso muito interessante. Isso não significa que não vai funcionar. (Na verdade, algumas ferramentas de backup / criação de imagens explicitamente embarcam essa capacidade.) Mas significa , até onde eu entendo, que MS não se importa sobre esse cenário.
Artigo 279624 da Microsoft -
Como mover uma instalação do Windows para um hardware diferente
Over the life cycle of a Microsoft Windows operating system, you may have to restore a system state backup that is installed on one computer to the same physical computer or even to a different physical computer. Recovery from the following events may require a restore operation: (...)
You can restore a system state backup from one physical computer to the same physical computer or another computer that has the same make, model, and configuration (identical hardware).
Microsoft does not support restoring a system state backup from one computer to a second computer of a different make, model, or hardware configuration. Microsoft will only provide commercially reasonable efforts to support this process. Even if the source and destination computers seem to be identical makes and models, there may be driver, hardware, or firmware differences between the source and destination computers.