TSGL: clone drive

[Russell W. Coover]

Yes, I've had experience attempting to boot cloned drives on computers other
than the one that was cloned.

Using Acronis or some other similar application (Ghost comes to mind) to
"clone" a drive is a good way to backup everything you have on the computer,
but only because in doing it this way, you will not forget to backup any
particular file. The cloned drive will not boot up on another computer
unless you have the same or similar hardware on the 2nd computer as you had
on the first. As suggested earlier, you may be able to do this with the same
exact motherboard model.

This wasn't the case with Windows 9x Operating System Machines, but became
true with Windows XP. The reason? Microsoft thought they needed to stop
pirating of the Operating System in particular and of other software in
general. And what they did worked. 

This, of course, made it more difficult to backup by cloning. But it still
works. Even if your original computer is stolen or destroyed in a fire, a
cloned hard drive still has the files. And the clone can be placed in a
different computer as an additional hard drive or can be placed in an
external drive and accessed.

So, generally, the best purpose of cloning a drive, is to change out the old
hard drive with a new. But I still like to clone to backup. 

Russ Coover 

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of HBCANON
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 6:17 PM
To: 'Tech Support Guy Mailing List'
Subject: Re: TSGL: clone drive

I read the other answer, and what bothers me is IF you can't pop a
copy/clone or restore
an image into another machine and boot to regain your system, what is the
point to making
the complete system type backup? Having to secure an  identical mobo is
unacceptable. The
least MS should do is let you boot, and then require you to call to procure
clearance to
run on the new platform. 
I have heard several versions of this scenario; Which answer is correct? 
I have not had to experience it as yet. The only complete system restore I
did was from a
Drive Image image when the system refused to come up after a BSOD.
Anybody out there with REAL experience with this?
HBCanon
Geneva, FL

-----Original Message-----
From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of
Engineman1 at aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007 21:16
To: List at tsgserver.com
Subject: 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



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