Posted on 12/20/2008 6:59:49 AM PST by wendy1946
well ok
Ping—to the only person I know who would know anything about this. I’ll just stick to buying my Macs and getting someone to show me how to do stuff with them—LOL! (Usually 2nd Amendment Mama)
I Upgradce to a super quadrature fravistat
You nerd. :)
gnip...
The process I describe here would probably work for a mac. The hard disks aren’t likely to be that much different.
Ummm... XP didn’t complain about licensing?
Clonezilla is great. I use it to backup my system drive whenever I install new software.
I mentioned that. XP insisted that I re-register, but that doesn’t cost anything and is legitimate. The only thing msoft is interested in is that there aren’t two computers out there using the same copy of XP and, in the situation described here, the old computer is being tossed.
i don't know about how it is now, but... at one time when windows was installed it looked at what the processor and the chip sets were, then configured itself accordingly so switching motherboards/processors could be tricky when cloning since windows was loading drivers for stuff that may no longer there... so question, is windows no longer required to load to the installed processor/chipsets or does it reconfigure itself on the fly???
Yup. You did, at the very end. My bad.
I use Ghost and never had a problem.
LOL! The process you describe here look like Greek to me.....I pretty much know how to turn my computer off and on, get to FR and my email. A bit of an exaggeration, maybe, but only because of the help of 2nd Amendment Mama
That isn't necessarily true. If you buy a computer from an oem like Dell, the windows license remains with the PC and you don't have rights to move it.
Thanks for the post, while I’m not usually in the habit of migrating Win9x systems into XP or Vista hardware-friendly environments, Clonezilla sounds like it could be useful, and I thank you for the information! :)
Good question. The chipsets are obviously close enough, that is, from a mid 90s Intel chip to a 2008 chip, and XP was able to configure for a basic scren, keyboard, and mouse by itself, leaving me to load drivers for graphics, sound, and ethernet circuitry.
Upgradce that spell-czech softwear to.
I think Upgradce is in Slovakia.
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