I need to settle a disagreement. My friend purchased an external hard drive and wants to back up his internal hard drive. He thinks that he can purchase a back up program and then put his back up onto another computer (not the one he backed up). I said first of all it is not legal and I don't think that it can be physically done. Microsoft must have some code in there to prevent this?

If you are talking about transferring Windows from one computer to another then yes it is illegal. One copy, one computer. Besides it wont work. The only chance it has of working is if the two computers have identical hardware. Stuart

Thanks Stuart, that is exactly what I told him, but I was not sure.

He can, of course, backup his data to the external drive. "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown