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Can i clone my harddrive?

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Name: bigbwoi2000
Date: October 23, 2005 at 09:35:09 Pacific
OS: WinXp Home
CPU/Ram: Celeron D 2.93/512 MB
Comment:

Can you clone your hard drive to another hard drive even the operating system?

thank you

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512 pc3200 Mb of Ram
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Response Number 1
Name: plainandsimple
Date: October 23, 2005 at 09:36:38 Pacific
Reply:

YES you can............................


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Response Number 2
Name: ceri sheeran
Date: October 23, 2005 at 09:40:22 Pacific
Reply:

Hi,

Symantec Ghost or
Acronis Drive Image

The manufacturer of the new hard disk will probably have software on their web site to do this.

With a new hard disk you may need to reactivate XP, so a clean install may be a better option.

Backup all your documents, pictures, music etc.

Then use the old hard disk as a backup drive. Internally or in an external enclosure.

hth

Ceri


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Response Number 3
Name: jam
Date: October 23, 2005 at 09:50:11 Pacific
Reply:

HDD manufacturer's supply software for that exact purpose. The CD usually comes with the new HDD, if not, you can download it from their website

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Response Number 4
Name: 1stepbeyond
Date: October 23, 2005 at 10:40:02 Pacific
Reply:

Hi
having just used this product to clone old hdd to spanking new sata with absolutley no problems, done in 3 clicks i can say this was unbeleivable (no i dont get paid for saying this lol) also didnt even need to reactivate xp.

http://www.acronis.com/promo/ATI/true-image-003.html?type=true+image9

wether it was worth it for 1 time, up to you, i'll certainly use it again in the future.

regards


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Response Number 5
Name: StuartS
Date: October 23, 2005 at 10:45:57 Pacific
Reply:

If you install the cloned hard disk into the same computer that the original came from you wont have to reactivate XP.

It is only when you try to install the cloned disk in a different computer that you will run into activation problems.

Stuart


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Response Number 6
Name: GX1 Man
Date: October 23, 2005 at 12:25:55 Pacific
Reply:

If it works at all!

You can avoid many of these Windows problems with Linux. Linspire eases the transition for new users


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Response Number 7
Name: lukeles
Date: October 24, 2005 at 19:35:08 Pacific
Reply:

yes, you can use clone software, such as
ghost!

But the most tool is sector to sector copy.


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Response Number 8
Name: bigbwoi2000
Date: October 25, 2005 at 15:03:18 Pacific
Reply:

but how can the hard drive know if it is a different computer?
Thank You

Hp Pavillion a1010n
Asus P4GV-LA Motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
160 Gb Hard Drive
512 pc3200 Mb of Ram
64 Mb G-force 66666666666666GT
Windows Xp Home Edition


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Response Number 9
Name: StuartS
Date: October 25, 2005 at 15:24:41 Pacific
Reply:

>> but how can the hard drive know if it is a different computer? <<

The drive doesn't know, thats just a piece of dumb hardware, but Windows certainly does. Windows knows exactly what it is running on.

Stuart


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Response Number 10
Name: bigbwoi2000
Date: October 25, 2005 at 17:23:19 Pacific
Reply:

Oh,Okay thank you cause i was going to get one of those big hard drives like the Hitachi 500GB and clone my 160 GB Seagate to it and give the 160Gb to my dad so he can have a big hard drive and Windows XP

Hp Pavillion a1010n
Asus P4GV-LA Motherboard
Intel Celeron 2.93 GHz
160 Gb Hard Drive
512 pc3200 Mb of Ram
64 Mb G-force 66666666666666GT
Windows Xp Home Edition


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Response Number 11
Name: StuartS
Date: October 25, 2005 at 17:41:25 Pacific
Reply:

It wont work! Its one copy of XP to one computer and Windows can tell the difference.

Stuart


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Response Number 12
Name: 1stepbeyond
Date: October 26, 2005 at 03:16:37 Pacific
Reply:

Hi

http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=418&page=5


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