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Acronis 7/XP Questions
There are several copy protection products claiming to do this. One technology is based on a hard disk "signature". Another is based on a mother board "signature". www.crypkey.com - hard disk signature www.power-t.com - mother board signature If you search the web for software copy protection, you will find others.

Lessons from the Death of HD-DVD: Another Lethal Wound for ...
Depending on when you bought your computer, this could be an independent disc, or it may be included on the Mac OS X Install Disc. (Look for tiny lettering on the disc that says Apple Hardware Test can run only when you start up from the CD or DVD it came on; don't bother trying to copy it to your hard disk.

WHOA! Roy Schestowitz is a clueless idiot (and a coward)
(I had this software with a Maxtor drive). If Dell gives you a drive, you might consider buying Drive Image software to copy your data from old to new drives. Hope this helps. TJ -----Original Message----- Dear All, My Dell Optiplex Disk Monitoring System complains that it has detected that the Hard Drive is

Copy hard drive?
Windows MCE(2005) OS. I want to clone the new hard drive and keep it as a back up in case my original hard drive ever fails. My question is what is the easiest method and recommended software to clone this new hard drive? Also do I have to internally install the new drive or can it be done though external means,

STRACKER.EXE
Ironically, it's usually not that hard to make a copy of copy-protected software onto a disk of the same size (I use the "Copy II Plus" back-up software--look for a used copy on comp.sys.apple2.marketplace). However, it's usually quite difficult to install protected software on a hard disk.

Copy hard drive?
jmw joh...@mindspring.com alt comp hardware pc-homebuilt what if he does not have these programs? why does he have to go out and spend $$$ for software programs when xcopy32.exe and switches works I have reloaded and installed my Os (Win98 1st edition) three times in the last two weeks on three new hard drives.

Mac Powerbook Problems with CD - can you copy to Hard drive?
Note that hardware failure is much less likely that software/user error as the reason to restore. That can easily affect only a part of your file system. --->ALWAYS<-- copy all of the main drive. Yes, ALL of it. Also backup any other important hard drives. Note that "system state" in irrelevant when you backup the

Reinstall Windows
--->ALWAYS<-- copy all of the main drive. As far as doing that twice, there is absolutely no need. In over 4 years, only one BACKUP hard drive was ever needed and there was *never* an error. Now if there happens to be an error during a BACKUP COPY process, the software indicates the type of error, meaning that

FAQ: How do I clone or backup a hard disk?
Jeff jcdepa...@neo.rr.com alt sys pc-clone packardbell Char, Usually, this error occurs from a person trying to do a clean sweep and install of the OS outside of the usual PB restore. THE SOFTWARE DID COPY TO THE HARD DRIVE, HOWEVER WHEN I RUN WINDOWS, THEY ARE NOT PRESENT IN THE START; PROGRAMS AREA.

Bill Gates and Revised History (wasRe: Chemistry a branch of ...
Is there any way to install a new larger bootable hard disk, and retain all my settings and updates? Gary P Imaging is the best way to go, and check your hard drive manufacturer for updated software to copy the old drive to the new. BootIT NG from Terabyte http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ Drive Image from Power

Q 400Gb HDD with Windows 98/ME
Yes, I know there are software packages around...but I prefer the tougher route. Seems the two underlying problems are (1) spanning CD's and (2) joliet naming. I have heard it's impossible to do the deed in DOS. (But, I've also heard it's impossible to copy hard drives with XCOPY--and I know that the XCOPY hard

NTFS partitions accessible under Windows ?
Be especially careful about antivirus, system utilitites (like Norton), and CD/DVD writing software. Interesting enough, Office 97 will work under XP, if you also install service pack 2 for Is it even possible to have whatever on the old computer hard drive copied to a new PC with a new OS? Please help! Thanks...

Has anyone done a full recover with XP?
... to Sound Blaster CMS Jumbo 350 Tape Drive w/5 blank tapes 1.44 MB TEAC Floppy Adaptec 1542CF SCSI Hard Disk controller 1.7 GB total hard disk storage. Point Software Copy II PC Option Board (copy anything, read Mac disks) NE2000 Compatible Ethernet Card External Viva 14.4 Data/Fax Modem OS/2 Warp 3.0,

HP descjet 720 drukt te blauw af
If I use the supplied Recovery CD and do a reinstall of the OS, will it give me a "custom" option for installing programs or does it just load everything by default. OS = Vista Ultimate thanks ray If it is a 'recovery' CD and not an OS disk, then it will probably just copy the image to your hard disk with no

Which is the best DOS-based Disk imaging software?
Steve Harris sbhar...@ix.netcom.com sci astro sci physics alt sci physics new-theories sci physics fusion sci chem I just pulled out friend's copy of Hard Drive, an unauthorized bio of Gates, to check out the Kildall/Digital story. Turns out that the Kildall story varies according to who tells it.

Copy hard drive?
Rich Mulvey r...@mulvey.com comp os msdos programmer m...@holly.demon.co.uk (Mark Rogers) writes: I'm writing some software which I want to ensure is only run from the hard disk. The reasons are to do with a software copy protection system so I want whatever checks I make to be as secure as possible.

FAQ: How do I clone or backup a hard disk?
I know how to set them up hardware wise it's just the copy that I don't know. Thanks, Rob 1) download parted : http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/parted.html 2) execute parted under parted : 3) select target-drive 4) cp source-drive source-partition-number target-partition-number for example, if you want copy

packardbell recovery CD
The process was surprisingly quick, and resulted in a 54GB archive of a 100GB disk. Not too shabby. The next step was to secure-wipe the drive (don't want those men in black prying into my private data). For this I used "Darik's Boot and Nuke" (a Linux distro dedicated to the task of secure-wiping hard drives) in

GNU/Linux a Case of Escaping Draconian EULA, Restoring Rights
The previous OS is cabbed up in C:\[I can't remember the exact directory]. The location can not be changed. Any info much appreciated and Thank you for your time. Lu Lizotte On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 19:31:13 -0700, "Bill V" <wjv...@main.com> wrote: How do I copy my WinME installation to a new hard drive without losing

Copy hard drive from old iMac to new iMac?
Rab...@f373.n107.z1.fidonet.org comp os msdos programmer -=> Quoting m...@holly.demon.co.uk to All <=- mc> I'm writing some software which I want to ensure is only run from the mc> hard disk. The reasons are to do with a software copy protection mc> system so I want whatever checks I make to be as secure as