Re: Ping Bill Horne - Cloning


"Neon John" <no@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1j78a3l4jt2vled3p81l0kgfo289pkhj8p@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 02:03:57 -0400, bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx> wrote:


I may not be understanding you - or you, me.
I have two laptops - a Toshiba and a Dell. I also have two extra
drives in USB cases. I clone the Dell to one of them, and the Toshiba
to the other. When the Toshiba clone is installed in the Toshiba, it
works. When the Dell clone is installed in the Dell, it works. But
when the Toshiba clone is installed in the Dell, it doesn't work. The
drives themselves are a Hitachi and a Fujitsu, with the Toshiba clone
drive being the Fujitsu.

With no MBR, the Toshiba clone (Fujitsu drive) wouldn't work in the
Toshiba, and the Dell clone (Hitachi) wouldn't work in the Dell,
would it?

Correct. I didn't realize that you were trying to move the cloned drives between
different machines. I'd not expect that to work simply because some of the very low
level code needed to boot that is hardware-specific would wrong for anything other
than the machine it was installed for. This is stuff that winders installer writes
to the drive during installation.

I'm not an expert on this stuff so I won't even attempt an explanation with any more
detail. I just know that moving cloned drives between different types of hardware
doesn't work.

John
--


Not just different type of machines. Even if he used two identical Dells, he would run into a problem due to licensing. But a call to MS will fix the problem. Assuming you can convince them the OS is still used in the original machine it was purchased for.

Nate

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Ping Bill Horne - Cloning
    ... a cloned hard drive from a Dell will not boot a Toshiba. ... But when the Toshiba clone is installed in the Dell, ... The drives themselves are a Hitachi and a Fujitsu, with the Toshiba clone drive being the Fujitsu. ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
  • Re: Ping Bill Horne - Cloning
    ... You can't take a cloned drive from a Dell laptop ... The Toshiba would likely spit it out. ... A clone from Copywrite will work in any computer you put it in. ... The drives themselves are a Hitachi and a Fujitsu, with the Toshiba clone drive being the Fujitsu. ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
  • Re: Ping Bill Horne - Cloning
    ... a cloned hard drive from a Dell will not boot a Toshiba. ... But when the Toshiba clone is installed in the Dell, ... The drives themselves are a Hitachi and a Fujitsu, with the Toshiba clone drive being the Fujitsu. ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
  • Re: Ping Bill Horne - Cloning
    ... You can't take a cloned drive from a Dell laptop ... The Toshiba would likely spit it out. ... But when the Toshiba clone is installed in the Dell, ... The drives themselves are a Hitachi and a Fujitsu, with the Toshiba clone drive being the Fujitsu. ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
  • Re: Ping Bill Horne - Cloning
    ... drives in USB cases. ... I clone the Dell to one of them, and the Toshiba ...
    (rec.outdoors.rv-travel)
Loading