02-12-2018, 04:43 PM
(02-12-2018, 04:18 PM)Moltke link Wrote: Yeah that won't work, ever! Once Windows is installed in a pc it attaches itself to that hardware, so cloning the drive and trying to get it boot in a different one with different hardware won't work, I don't even think it'd work in two identical pc's with identical hardware, cause Microsoft doesn't think it's profitable for their business that people can simply clone their Windows install which requires to buy a license and install it into another computer without paying more money.
Oh no, no, no!
I wasn't trying to boot it up in a different machine. I can understand why that might not work. I wasn't trying to bootleg a copy of Windows.
My hard drive is making a racket, so I wanted to replace the drive. So I cloned the drive and put the cloned drive right back into the very same notebook that I took the old drive out of. I figured it should work because it's the very same computer. All I was trying to do was replace a bad hard drive.
And I couldn't even get it to boot up on the same computer. I had to put the old noisy drive back in and that's where I'm at right now.
I even took it to a compute shop to see if they could do it, they said they could but they would charge me $200 to do it! And I even had the new drive to put in it. I said, "No way". I'm not paying $200 just to clone my drive. I can buy a brand new Windows 10 OS for something like $119. In fact I can almost buy a whole new notebook computer for $200.
In fact, it was that whole episode that caused me to give Linux a shot. I'm fed up with Windows.