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help with backup please
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| I am running xp home edition on a 80 gig drive(master) and have a 13 gig
drive (slave) can I clone or backup Windows XP and my files to this slave
drive then use it as a master drive to clone another drive if my system
crashes
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| newt wrote...
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>I am running xp home edition on a 80 gig drive(master) and have a 13 gig
>drive (slave) can I clone or backup Windows XP and my files to this slave
>drive then use it as a master drive to clone another drive if my system
>crashes
It all depends on how full your 80 gig drive is.
Imagine you have a 80 gallon fish tank and want to transfer
it to a 13 gallon tank.
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| I have 12 gig used on master drive will I have to reregister xp if it is
cloned to another drive
"Harry" <harryooopotter@hotmail.co_> wrote in message
news:wfHjf.133196$y_1.102957@edtnps89...
> newt wrote...
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> It all depends on how full your 80 gig drive is.
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> Imagine you have a 80 gallon fish tank and want to transfer
> it to a 13 gallon tank.
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| newt wrote...
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>I have 12 gig used on master drive will I have to reregister xp if it is
>cloned to another drive
I think you mean re-activation; probably yes.
Whenever there is significant hardware changes, WPA (Windows Product
Activation) will be invoked.
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| newt wrote...
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>I have 12 gig used on master drive will I have to reregister xp if it is
>cloned to another drive
I think you meant WPA (Windows Product Activation).
If you google "Windows Product Activation", you'll find a lot of hits,
including this one.
http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
Here are some quotes.
<quote>
The WPA system checks ten categories of hardware:
Display Adapter
SCSI Adapter
IDE Adapter (effectively the motherboard)
Network Adapter (NIC) and its MAC Address
RAM Amount Range (i.e., 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc.)
Processor Type
Processor Serial Number
Hard Drive Device
Hard Drive Volume Serial Number (VSN)
CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM
[snip]
WPA asks for ‘votes’ from each of these ten categories:
‘Is the same device still around, or has there never been one?’
Seven Yes votes means all is well.
</quote>
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| thanks for the replies If I use the same size and model drive to back up
to then I wont have to re-activate is Ghost 10 a good progame to do this
"Harry" <harryooopotter@hotmail.co_> wrote in message
news:NmIjf.133224$y_1.129672@edtnps89...
> newt wrote...
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> I think you mean re-activation; probably yes.
> Whenever there is significant hardware changes, WPA (Windows Product
> Activation) will be invoked.
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| newt wrote...
> is Ghost 10 a good progame to do this
I don't have Ghost 10; but cloneing drive is a common function
which Ghost 10 should have.
Cloning from a large (80 GB) drive to a small (13 GB) is possible if
- there is only a single partition on the source drive, and
- the stuffs on the source drive won't exceed the capacity of that
on the destination (i.e. 13 GB).
If you have more than one partitions on the source drive, you
will need some jugglings before doing the cloning.
But different programs may handle this situation differently.
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| I don't have ghost 10 but plan to get it to make back up I had two drives
before but I made the mistake of having them both plugged in and both went
out at same time lost every thing live and learn thanks for the info I hate
to reactivate I done it so much I have to call every time
"Harry" <harryooopotter@hotmail.co_> wrote in message
news:UEIjf.133228$y_1.77072@edtnps89...
> newt wrote...
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> I think you meant WPA (Windows Product Activation).
> If you google "Windows Product Activation", you'll find a lot of hits,
> including this one.
> http://aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm
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> Here are some quotes.
> <quote>
> The WPA system checks ten categories of hardware:
>
> Display Adapter
> SCSI Adapter
> IDE Adapter (effectively the motherboard)
> Network Adapter (NIC) and its MAC Address
> RAM Amount Range (i.e., 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc.)
> Processor Type
> Processor Serial Number
> Hard Drive Device
> Hard Drive Volume Serial Number (VSN)
> CD-ROM / CD-RW / DVD-ROM
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> [snip]
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> WPA asks for 'votes' from each of these ten categories:
> 'Is the same device still around, or has there never been one?'
> Seven Yes votes means all is well.
> </quote>
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| newt wrote...
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>I don't have ghost 10 but plan to get it to make back up I had two drives
>before but I made the mistake of having them both plugged in and both went
>out at same time lost every thing live and learn thanks for the info I hate
>to reactivate I done it so much I have to call every time
You have internet connection, don't you?
Windows activation / re-activation is a few mouse clicks process,
if you have internet connection.
I've done that a few times for a few PC'es at work.
Personally I like Ghost up to Ghost 2003. Starting Ghost 9, it
needs .net framework. This is the main reason I don't like it.
I have Acronis TrueImage8, and I'm quite happy with that.
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