Can anyone help?
For over a year now I have been protecting the software and data on my various hard drives using Powerquest's (now Symantec) Drive Image 7.
It works superbly well (I have successfully restored several HDDs when a Windows file corrupted) but, as far as I can tell, it has one serious flaw:
If Windows XP is the operating system, then it does not appear to be possible to restore to a different but similarly specced machine.
So, in the event of fire; theft; or castastrophic hardware failure (involving the motherboard) that image cannot be restored.
As I understand it, this is only an issue with XP and stems from the piracy protection features in that OS.
I have spoken to Powerquest who tell me that there is a work around using Syspec, a program included with XP, but I do not know how to use it. Apparently, a 'Syspec' Image can be restored to a different machine but then XP will have to be reactivated.
No problem with that, but how do you create the 'Syspecced Image in the first place?!
Alternatively, is there a equally good but diifferent imaging package out there, that is just as easy to use but which will allow a restore to a different XP machine, with or without reactivation?
I need to plug this security gap and any help would be much appreciated!
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