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mattievRS
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7th Apr 14 at 18:37   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
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.

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[Edited on 07-04-2014 by mattievRS]
pow
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8th Apr 14 at 09:09   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
It will work yes
Reecemac
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Depemds, if when you way identical it has the exact same hardware then yes.
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8th Apr 14 at 09:42   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I've switched drives out of completely different machines before and windows has managed to sort itself out
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Same Brett - Windows XP is surprising resilliant haha!
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Usually depends on chipsets, I must just be unlucky, everytime I've its failed to boot
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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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