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11-27-2002, 08:32 PM
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XP activation and Symantec's Ghost
hey guys, gals and anyone else.......
If I use Ghost 2002 to copy a hardrive image to another hardrive, and then later on, restore the image back to another hardrive for another computer, will I have to activate XP again?
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11-27-2002, 09:25 PM
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If I'm reading you right, you wanna GHOST the drive from computer A to another drive, then restore the image to computer B. If that's the case, you can't do that as for one, it will want to re-activate because of the different hardware and two, will inform you that this particular copy of Windows XP has already been activated, therefore you will not be able to activate it on machine B.
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11-29-2002, 08:30 AM
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To add to Hal9000's reply...the third reason it won't work is that unless Computer B is identical...not just similar but identical...to Computer A, the ghosted image won't have the right configuration for the different hardware (including the motherboard).
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11-30-2002, 04:39 AM
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If it is similar though, often Windows just identifies new hardware when it boots up, and is fine. Sometimes you might have to install some different drivers, but nothing major.
Basically, it is a bit pot luck really. |
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