From: "Geo." 

This was one of the reasons for separating hardware from apps in the
registry. However the promise of PnP was that you could use an image backup
and simply restore to new hardware and it should have just worked. Copy
protection tends to mess that up though.

Geo.

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
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>> If you can't restore to new hardware then you just have a copy not a
>> backup.
>
> That's exactly what all the backup software I've seen does. The problem is
> not the backup software, it's the way Windows works that's the problem.
>
> The Acronis Universal restore basically wipes out all knowledge of what
> the previous hardware was and forces it to redetect, that's quite a bit
> more complex than just image backup/restore. (I think you can add drivers
> too, but I'm not sure, and it still isn't universal restore if it
> doesn't...)
>
> --
> Bob Comer

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