Ghost disk clone

[duane123]

I am running Ghost 9.0.2.3981 on Win XP Home SP2 (all patches). The PC is a mobo Asus P4S8X with 1Gb RAM, and three hard drives - the smallest is C: and is only 40Gb. The C: disk is full and I want to install a large new drive to replace it - can I get Norton Ghost "Clone mode - disk to disk" to copy 100% of the old C: drive over to new drive and then physically reconnect the new drive in the C: IDE slot/chain after it is complete? Will the new C: drive then include 100% of the old drive including the registry and even Norton Ghost itself? Will this peturn the activiation of Win XP back at the mothership in Seattle?

 

[lb63640]

I don't have your answer, but I bet somebody in the Ghost forum might.

 

[seeseegee]

ghost will do an exact image of one hd to place it to another, so an answer of yes to your initial question.

as far as windows activation, this came from microsoft's documentation.

"Product activation rechecks the hardware it is running only to help reduce illegal hard disk cloning – another prevalent piracy method. Hard disk cloning is where a pirate copies the entire image of a hard disk from one PC to another PC. At each login, Windows XP checks to see that it is running on the same or similar hardware that it was activated on. If it detects that the hardware is “substantially different”, reactivation is required. This check is performed after the SLP BIOS check discussed above, if the SLP BIOS check fails. This means that if your PC is pre-activated in the factory using the SLP pre-activation method, all the components in the PC could be swapped, including the motherboard, so long as the replacement motherboard was genuine and from the OEM with the proper BIOS. As noted above, installations of Windows XP made using volume licensing media and volume license product keys (VLKs) will not have any hardware component checking.