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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:03:40 -0500
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

>> Go get yourself a copy of Norton Ghost 2003.
 >
> Or get a copy of Macrium or Acronis,

If the computer has a working floppy drive, and you can manage to create 
a working copy of Ghost on it, then there is nothing easier than booting 
  a system from floppy vs messing around with CD drives and bios 
settings, as well as trying to figure out how to connect 3 IDE devices 
(2 drives and 1 CD drive) and getting everything to work.

And in my experience, the other CD-based programs can frequently not 
generate a bootable clone.  I've cloned over 100 drives from a handful 
of different XP-SP2 and SP3 master drives using Ghost.

If you want to use a CD-based drive copy program, get your hands on a 
copy of Hiren's BootCD and putz around with the various software on it.

Potential problems with going the Ghost route is getting a working 
combination of floppy drive and floppy disk.  Over time both seem to go 
bad, bad sectors, alignment problems, dust, etc.

>> Copy will happen at anywhere from 800 mb/sec to maybe double that, 
>> depending on how new / fast the motherboard is.

Correction - 800 mb/minute.  Two IDE drives on a Pentium-4 PC.

When cloning sata-to-sata on a Core2 motherboard I can typically get 
3500 mb/minute.

>> There'a a program called xpinfo.exe that will tell you
> 
> Any idea where to get that?

I just checked here:

http://www.licenturion.com/xp/xpinfo-exe.zip

This "licenturion" looks familiar to me.

By the way, this is where you can get Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f147b3d4/G
HOST_BOOTx.zip

> Don't the votes regenerate after a period (120 days or some such), to 
> allow people to upgrade/repair their PC?

Yes, a system that hasn't tried to re-validate itself in the past 120 
days should be in the clear to do it again, but I think the risk is too 
high if you can avoid it.  The risk that your product key has, for 
what-ever reason, been added to Micro$haft's black-list of keys.
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