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How easy/hard is it to clone a hard drive?
patrickl:
Won't you run into problems with serial numbers for Windows if you do this (and thus activation problems)?
ChadTower:
You could, yes, if you tried to use the same serial for too many installs. Of course, you don't actually have to register your copy of windows. It works just fine without that.
knave:
I've been using ghost for many years both profesionally and for home use. I will never go back. I find it so useful that I make a ghost images all the time. It's nice to be able to revert to past configs, or before that virus hit, or before I was an idiot and installed that crappy demo.
You can usually find last years version of systemworks pro for cheap like $15 or so.
It's easy too. I use a boot disk or CD that I make for each PC. Run the Dos ghost app and image the PC over my home network.
Samstag:
My instructions for easy clones using dd:
* Download Tom's Rescue/Boot Disk and put it on a floppy.
* Set the disk you want cloned as your IDE master, or in the first SATA port.
* Set the target disk up as secondary or in a higher SATA port.
* Boot from the floppy.
* Type "dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb" for IDE or dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" for SATA.
You can do this without even knowing how to spell Linux.
kelemvor:
I just use Ghost.
Hook up both drives
Boot from a ghost floppy or CD
Clone one to the other
Of course this has to be for identical hardware since it's all the drivers and such too. Otherwise when ou're done you still have to go through and weed out things and fix drivers and such.
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