[CS-FSLUG] Hard Drive Cloning

[Jim Isbell, W5JAI]

I bought the full retail version....even though I was very fearful of
my money after paying full price for ME which was an unmitigated
disaster.  Bill Gates should have refunded everything they took in on
that one.

I just read in the book that it should be "Four or more changes." 
Three should work.

Now I remember why I switched to Linux....



On 3/19/06, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Fair enough.  But like I said - the backup disk will not likely work if the
> backup computer has different hardware from the original.  Three or more
> hardware differences (motherboard, cpu, etc) and WinXP will *NOT*
> boot.  You will have better luck moving the original hard disk (not the
> clone), since that will be one *less* hardware change.  I know a guy who
> said he tested this himself.  He made one or two hardware changes and WinXP
> still booted; make three hardware changes and system did not boot up.
>
> Also, if your WinXP came preloaded on the system, then the license does not
> allow transfer to another machine - even if hardware is the same and it
> "works".  If you bought a full retail version, then you can transfer the
> license (assuming you can make it work).
>
>
>
> At 06:58 PM 3/19/06, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
>
> >No, I want to clone it so it COULD be used in another...or this
> >computer.  It will be a backup in case this computer crashes.  If this
> >one dies totally and I have to replace it with a new one and put in
> >the backup clone, that would not be a violation of any rules.
> >Currently I am thinking of replacing this computer and when I do this
> >HD will be clean when I dispose of it.
> >
> >On 3/19/06, Frank Bax <fbax at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > > At 03:24 PM 3/19/06, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> > > >I want to clone the 80GB drive in my wifes XP machine.  I have two
> > > >80GB drives in it now and they are both recognised by XP.  C: is the
> > > >boot drive.  I want to clone C: to D: so that it can be used as the
> > > >boot drive in another computer.
> > >
> > >
> > > I must be misreading something here.  You want to clone the WINXP boot
> > > drive, then use the clone in another system?  Doesn't that violate
> > > EULA?  Besides, unless the two computers have nearly identical hardware, it
> > > won't work anyway.
> > >
> > >
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Jim Isbell
"If you are not living on the edge, well then,
you are just taking up too much space."