mattievRS
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Registered: 20th May 06
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If I have a dell laptop that runs with xp, and have another identical laptop that boots to bios with no operating system. Can I clone the HDD to have 2 working laptops?
In a nut shell, I've got a dell laptop with diagnostics on it and want to get another laptop and clone everything onto it and sell it on. The diagnostics is a bit particular with service packs etc so cloning is the best way.
Cheers
[Edited on 07-04-2014 by mattievRS]
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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It will work yes
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Reecemac
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Registered: 7th Jun 06
Location: Essex
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Depemds, if when you way identical it has the exact same hardware then yes.
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Brett
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I've switched drives out of completely different machines before and windows has managed to sort itself out 
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pow
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Same Brett - Windows XP is surprising resilliant haha!
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Reecemac
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Usually depends on chipsets, I must just be unlucky, everytime I've its failed to boot 
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pow
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You essentially do it when you P2V a Physical Machine to a VM. Sometimes you need to mess with system files inside the System32 directory but 99.9% of the time it works!
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