would this OS cloning method work???

microchipper

microchipper

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obviously you cant just copy and paste your xp's C drive straight onto a slave drive whilst you are on the system in question, but... would it work if the OS hard disk was put in as a slave on another pc and transferred/copied to another drive that way??

the only problem i can predict would be the hardware change notification popping up which would require reactivating the OS within 3 days.
 
microchipper said:
obviously you cant just copy and paste your xp's C drive straight onto a slave drive whilst you are on the system in question, but... would it work if the OS hard disk was put in as a slave on another pc and transferred/copied to another drive that way??

the only problem i can predict would be the hardware change notification popping up which would require reactivating the OS within 3 days.
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As a slave drive, it just becomes that! It's not a bootable drive... therefore, your best way to clone your existing PC with Windows XP is to use a program like Ghost.

It will transfer all the files from one drive to the other like a clone. Then, you can put or rather... make that cloned drive a master and boot from it.

I hope this is the answer you are looking for... unless I missed something in your question?
 
Buy-it PC said:
As a slave drive, it just becomes that! It's not a bootable drive... therefore, your best way to clone your existing PC with Windows XP is to use a program like Ghost.

It will transfer all the files from one drive to the other like a clone. Then, you can put or rather... make that cloned drive a master and boot from it.

I hope this is the answer you are looking for... unless I missed something in your question?
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as a slave drive yes.. but by putting it into the other pc afterwards instead of the drive you copied from and making it master, would it run like the original?
I know about Norton Ghost and other similar programs and the advantage they have is the ability to auto backup/clone stuff whilst being in use, i just wondered wether a drive could be cloned whilst out of the system (so to speak)
 
microchipper said:
as a slave drive yes.. but by putting it into the other pc afterwards instead of the drive you copied from and making it master, would it run like the original?
I know about Norton Ghost and other similar programs and the advantage they have is the ability to auto backup/clone stuff whilst being in use, i just wondered wether a drive could be cloned whilst out of the system (so to speak)
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yes, after you clone it...move to another pc...but change to master....and it will boot...about norton ghost i'm not sure... i'm a acronis guy..lol.. good luck
 
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