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Rod Speed
FeMaster said:
That 100% claim is just plain wrong.
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Hard disk crashed - where is my 50-digital WinXP installation id?
That 100% claim is just plain wrong.
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FeMaster
Rod Speed said:That 100% claim is just plain wrong.
And your replies are 100% worthless. But thanks for your comments anyway.
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FeMaster
Apparently luck has been on your side.
Eric Gisin said:Most laptops use Intel chipsets, and moving XP between them works.
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Erica Eshoo
If you think everyone smarter than you is a genius, there are *billions*
of geniuses in the world.
I doubt many of them back up programs successfully.
Did you ever look at where programs scatter files?
Take a snapshot of your entire disk and then install, for example,
Microsoft Office.
Then look at the THOUSANDS (not tens, not hundreds, but thousands) of files
and registry settings that are set.
After doing that, tell me that you successfully back up your programs and
reinstall them and they actually work as before.
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Erica Eshoo
The problem here is that you can't just take an install that was designed
for one machine and drop into another. Unless those laptops are 100%
identical, it's not going to work.
This appears to be what happened. The hard disks I had lying around were
from Dell laptops and Toshiba laptops mostly - and I tried to put them in
an IBM laptop.
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Erica Eshoo
And your replies are 100% worthless.
One thing that I learned that might be worthwhile to all of us is the fact
we can save these two files & copy them back after reimaging.
C:\windows\system32\wpa.dbl & c:\windows\system32\wpa.bak
Apparently these files copied back will prevent the Windows Activation from
locking up as they allow Windows Activation to proceed without interaction
or something like that.
Has anyone ever successfully tried this trick?
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Larry Sabo
Erica Eshoo said:This appears to be what happened. The hard disks I had lying around were
from Dell laptops and Toshiba laptops mostly - and I tried to put them in
an IBM laptop.
Did you try a repair install after booting from the CD containing the
Windows for the IBM?
Larry
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Franklin
I doubt many of them back up programs successfully.
Did you ever look at where programs scatter files?
Take a snapshot of your entire disk and then install, for example,
Microsoft Office.
Then look at the THOUSANDS (not tens, not hundreds, but thousands)
of files and registry settings that are set.
After doing that, tell me that you successfully back up your
programs and reinstall them and they actually work as before.
Thousands of files set for one large application means te hard drive
can't be backed up?
Next you'll mention that a cpu can't possibly be running at 2GHz
because it's 20 times faster than the 100MHz tuning on your FM radio
and everyone knows that nothiung travels faster than radio waves.
Are you trolling?
Or did you sleep through your physics lessons?
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Rod Speed
Harry331 said:-Lost wrote...
Acronis True Image
- for restore: Acronis True Image
- for transferring hard disk to another computer
- identical PC'es
(same motherborad, same disk controller, same video driver, same eveything)
Doesnt need to be same everything. And a repair install will fix even radical differences in the hardware.
- alternatively, Sysprep the source OS first ;-)
tranafer the hdd, and cross your fingers before reboot
And do a repair install if it doesnt work.
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Rod Speed
Erica Eshoo said:Raymond J. Johnson Jr. wrote
I doubt many of them back up programs successfully.
Your doubts are completely irrelevant, hordes do that successfully anyway.
Did you ever look at where programs scatter files?
Irrelevant. And image of a hard drive IMAGES the hard drive so
that replacing the hard drive works fine. Thats why its called an image.
And file by file backup works fine too.
Take a snapshot of your entire disk and then install, for example, Microsoft Office.
Then look at the THOUSANDS (not tens, not hundreds,
but thousands) of files and registry settings that are set.
And an IMAGE of the hard drive backs up them all.
So does a complete file by file backup too.
After doing that, tell me that you successfully back up your
programs and reinstall them and they actually work as before.
As easy as falling off a log with working imager. Thats why they are called imagers.
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Rod Speed
And your replies are 100% worthless. But thanks for your comments anyway.
Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.
There's plenty of hardware differences that wont prevent a move of
an XP boot drive between systems and which will handle the hardware
differences fine on the first boot of the drive in the new system.