[RESOLVED] Windows XP - And Ghost?

[windowscrash]

Have Micro$oft got it wrong again?

I mean, why reactive windows XP when you could do a ghost of your PC? Or does the technology detect you have done this and make you reactivate?

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[Darren Wilson]

The version of XP I am running Ghosts fine with the very latest version of Ghost included in Norton System Works 2002. But then again it didn't need activating anyway as it is an OEM version direct from MS that I am using (not a downloaded version, actually on a MS CD)

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[techs]

From what I understand when you boot to the drive you cloned XP will identify the hardware and if there are certain changes it will know it is in a different machine and require activation again. It may be that it can also read a unique number from the mobo bios or cpu.
BTW good to see you back, Darren.

[windowscrash]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by techs:
BTW good to see you back, Darren.[/QUOTE

I was going to say that


BUT are you da real Darren Wilson???

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[Darren Wilson]

[quote]<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by windowscrash:

Originally posted by techs:
BTW good to see you back, Darren.[/QUOTE

I was going to say that


BUT are you da real Darren Wilson???

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Yes I am the real deal and if you want confirmation, just ask Scott, and check the post amount


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[This message has been edited by Darren Wilson (edited September 11, 2001).]

[sync]

I used Ghost to image my XP Partition and then restore it to a resized partition no problem, but when I tried the same thing on a partition using another drive letter I had to reactivate. That is run the install and repair (no online activation - just provide serial)

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[Darren Wilson]

<font face="Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva" size="2">Originally posted by sync:
but when I tried the same thing on a partition using another drive letter I had to reactivate. That is run the install and repair (no online activation - just provide serial)

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All that needed doing there was to change the boot.ini settings to specify which drive/partition the installation had moved to.


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[sync]

No you misunderstood It booted upto the logon screen then when you logged on a message appeared stating that windows could not verify the authentication of the product. Boot.ini was not a problem.
It then returned you to the logon box.

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