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Newer Intel WiFi cards only support Windows 10, as just one example. And because Microsoft won't support Windows 7 on such PCs, those PCs typically don't have Windows 7 driver sets available, which means other hardware might not work properly on Windows 7 either.

That means it might not run properly and might not even be able to get Windows Updates. If it has an Intel CPU newer than Core 6th Gen, aka Skylake, Windows 7 isn't supported on that hardware.

Your new PC's hardware might not even support Windows 7.

If your new PC is designed to boot in UEFI mode and your old PC and its Windows 7 installation are set up for Legacy BIOS mode, then restoring the old PC's backup onto the new one will involve jumping through some manual hoops to restore your old backup in a way that will allow UEFI mode booting.

I strongly recommend against trying to keep Windows 7 for reasons that should become clear from my list, but if you're adamant, understand what you're in for: If you intend to stick to Windows 7, whether or not you're migrating a backup from the old PC, then considering you're migrating to a new PC, there are a lot of things to consider there. That's the sole reason Macrium published the release, despite the fact that V6 was already over a year past its end-of-support period at that point. In fact, if you'll be running Windows 10 on the new PC, you'll need the latest release anyway, because none of the older versions work with Windows 10 1903.

The last 6.1 release was before Reflect moved up to 6.2.xxxx, but that release is over 3 years old now, and as you can see on the release notes page, there have been many enhancements and bug fixes in the several releases since then. Looking at the release notes for the entire V6 production release history here, doesn't seem to exist. If you have a V6 key, when you enter it into the download agent, it will retrieve the latest version of V6, which as of this writing is. And in fact, some newer Reflect releases have fixes related to migration and restore issues that might otherwise trip you up, so it's worth being current for that reason alone. Even if you're restoring a backup from the old PC onto the new one, which isn't entirely clear from your post, there's no requirement to use old Reflect versions to perform the migration/restore just because the backups were captured with old versions, in fact sometimes in a pinch you can use an old Reflect version to migrate/restore a backup captured by a newer version, although that isn't ideal because that isn't guaranteed.