Ghosting one drive to another

[johnnq1]

i'd like to get this samsung:http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16822152085

the drive i have no is a little loud - 7200.8.

lets pretend i do a clean install of windows/drivers/games/everything onto the seagate. then i ghost EVERYTHING to the new samsung. could i just unplug the seagate and use that as my backup so i can trojan the samsung? then i could just ghost the seagate onto the samsung again. but...if i ghost c documents onto the samsung, does it turn into d documents? might sound like i'm ignorant, but i've never done hard drive stuff before...so i guess i am!

 

[JackMDS]

Ghosting means an exact bit by bit copy of the Drive.

If you Ghost the Seagate to the Samsung and take out the Seagate, there after the Samsung would boot as C:

Please noter that after Ghosting Windows XP, or Vista, the Ghosted Drive when booting would need a Microsoft reactivation of the OS.

 

[johnnq1]

reactivation, aka i can just click a few buttons when connected to microsoft.com with activex? i totally forgot about windows activation...this would probably apply to my apple downloaded songs as well, no?

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Please noter that after Ghosting Windows XP, or Vista, the Ghosted Drive when booting would need a Microsoft reactivation of the OS.

Only if changing the hard drive causes the activation threshold to be breeched.
If the only thing you change since last activation is the hard drive, there will be no need for re-activation.

 

[johnnq1]

i've replaced the memory (rma) and cpu in the last 2 months. i know windows only allows for 3 new parts every 6 months or so before it shuts down...microsoft is a slut. i would be rmaing the seagate and purchasing anothe rsamsung.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Please noter that after Ghosting Windows XP, or Vista, the Ghosted Drive when booting would need a Microsoft reactivation of the OS.

Not necessarily so. I clone my main drives regularly and then swap them - XP Pro and Vista - on 4 machines. Never have had to reactivate. The system simply sees the new drive and accepts it, then requests a reboot.

 

[JackMDS]

Some of you are lucky, but in general the probability that activation would be needed is high, and it better that the OP and others who read this thread would know about it rather than to face a surprise.

 

[redbeard1]

In my experiences a simple clone rarely triggers a reactivation. In doing warranty work on bad motherboards, in which the exact board is sent for replacement, I've found it is the exception to have to reactivate.

 

[bruceb]

So far, restoring a Ghost Image of my setup to it's original drive does not require any reactivation.
And if you use Ghost to move the existing setup to a new drive, even if it is a larger size drive, it
will most likely not need activation.

 

[bob4432]

if you run any adobe apps you will need to re-activate them too.

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: bob4432
if you run any adobe apps you will need to re-activate them too.

That's why I quit running Adobe apps. They have a utility to transfer the activation but remembering to do it is a pain.

That's why I replaced full Acrobat with Nitro PDF.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: redbeard1
In my experiences a simple clone rarely triggers a reactivation. In doing warranty work on bad motherboards, in which the exact board is sent for replacement, I've found it is the exception to have to reactivate.

just recloned my laptop's harddrive from the original 60 back onto the 100 after suffering a OS system files vanishing act(believe occurred while defrag) last Fri morn ...pulled my docs folder then fdisked(quick didn't work) then cloned back ..back in business by Sun morning ..no xppro re-activation popup neither