TSGL: clone drive

[Tilman Brandl]

Hi Engineman,

as to where everybody may have gone, I don't know. I was wondering about this myself, even thought that somebody might have pulled the plug ... ;-)

Cloning with Acronis
You didn't mention which Acronis version you are using - mine is 10.0 I guess. It's just that I'm not totally certain on what to tell you. The main point which you are probably fully aware of is whether you 
1 clone your system partition or drive,
2 make an image of that partition or simply
3 make a copy 

If you really CLONE it and don't just create an image (I think those options are different) , you shouldn't have too many problems with using it in another PC. But problems may arise from (A) different hardware which doesn't fit the current software + drivers installed, and also (B) related to XPs activation.

If I remember it correctly, I've done this once and couldn't boot from this drive. I'm not sure, but maybe had even to do a repair installation of XP in order to get it to work. As to (B): If the hardware is really different, you could be asked to again activate your XP package.

If you have the full Acronis package, looking into the help files might help you get along with the process. Help is very detailed and does elaborate thoroughly on images, cloning and the like.

Tilman

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  Von: Engineman1 at aol.com 
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  Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. Juni 2007 03:16
  Betreff: TSGL: clone drive


  Hi, I'm using Acronis True Image, evaluation version.
  If I clone an image of my C drive with XP onto another hard drive can I  
  place it into another computer and have it boot up?
  If not what will happen, is there any way I can get it to boot?
  Engineman