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originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: learnatic
Being that you've already started setting up the new HDD means that you would have to wipe that out and start over though. When cloning or imaging one HDD to another it has to be blank and without partition info to start with or will be done for you before the imaging begins.
Why is it that you can't get the setup files again from where you got them before??? Or from somewhere else???
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: learnatic
So it's a Time/Date type of security thing then???? Have you tried installing it with your clock and date set back to when it would install and tricking it that way????
Does it need to install from an online source or do you have the setup programs local???
originally posted by: EnochRoot
LABTECH767 gives good advice here I think.
Funnily enough, I cloned a HDD to a bigger one last night with Macrium Reflect (free version).
I've also used Macrium to restore from an image which worked well.
There were some application I chose to download & install again, just in case there were newer versions available.
Cloning appears (to me at least) to remove a step in the process i.e. you are not making an image, saving it somewhere & then restoring it to another drive. It's just clone drive A to drive B.
DEFINITELY backup anything precious. There's always a risk something may go horribly wrong.
originally posted by: PhoenixOD
Microsoft has provided tools to do this for free. the only problem is they are command line driven.
This is the Microsoft engineer way to do it
-You need to download the Windows Automated Installation Kit which is free from MS.
-You then need to create a a windows PE disk with ImageX included.
-Start up the computer using the PE disk and use imageX to create a windows image file (WIM) on an external drive.
-Then swap the system drive for the new drive and start up the computer using the PE disk.
-Use diskpart (a commandline program on the PE disk) to create a partition that is 100mb in size to hold the boot manager etc, set this to active using diskpart.
-Use diskpart to create the main boot partition of whatever size you want.
- Then use imageX to apply the image(.WIM) you created earlier to the new partition (not the 100mb one). This is a very quick process as its a per file image and not a sector by sector image.
- The next part is tricky, you have to create the boot manager and link it to the windows directory on the boot drive. But i have found an easier way to do it. You can just start up the computer using a windows boot disk and choose 'start up' repair. Then the startup repair will do all the boot manager stuff for you. You may have to do the startup repair twice for it to work.
This is of course for experts only. Im only really writing it out to see if i could remember the steps of the top om head lol
originally posted by: mOjOm
a reply to: PhoenixOD
Wow, why doesn't it surprise me that Microsoft Engineers would choose to do it that way?!?!?!? Only microsoft would make it that difficult!!! What a nightmare....