Cloning disks - Unlock needed?

arachnaut · Post by **arachnaut** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:18 pm

My system disk is getting full and I'm thinking about getting a larger drive. I have only room for one drive so I need to replace the system drive with a new one.

If I make a clone of my drive (with Acronis) and copy that to the new drive and make the replacement, will I still have to unlock Live again?

Has anyone else done this?

KU · Post by KU » Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:55 am

arachnaut wrote:My system disk is getting full and I'm thinking about getting a larger drive. I have only room for one drive so I need to replace the system drive with a new one.

If I make a clone of my drive (with Acronis) and copy that to the new drive and make the replacement, will I still have to unlock Live again?

Has anyone else done this?

I've done this recently and I have a system similar to yours which is also on SP3. It did not cause Live to reject its authentication.

arachnaut · Post by **arachnaut** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:28 am

Thanks.

blank · Post by **blank** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 12:24 pm

same here

works pretty well

Anubis · Post by **Anubis** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:03 pm

Same here, recently upgraded to Hitachi 7200 rpm drives using bundled cloning utility. No issues either.

Landser · Post by **Landser** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 5:33 pm

Did you use standard setting, or a sector cloning setting?

arachnaut · Post by **arachnaut** » Sun Jun 08, 2008 11:43 pm

I just changed my 200GB main drive to a Seagate 1TB drive.

The cloning utility came with the drive and it copied all the data vary quickly - about 2 hours.

I adjusted the sizes of the partitions and all my applications
came up.

I did have to re-register Photoshop CS2, but that was accepted automatically via web.

Live, Reaktor, Sound Forge, and other programs worked with no trouble... Diskeeper needed re-activation (automatically accepted); Acronis True Image worked OK.

This was very easy and the disk drive is quite a bit faster.

arachnaut · Post by **arachnaut** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 5:29 pm

However, I later found problems.

My nightly backup using Retrospect failed with a BSOD
error: Bad_Pool_Header
STOP: 0x00000019
(0x00000020, 0xe5acb398, 0xe5acb3b8, 0x0c040207).

The fix is at
URL:
http://www.techsupportforum.com/microso ... onite.html

The Seagate Disc Wizard from Acronis corrupts some Device Manager
structures in the Storage Volume class.

The fix is easy.

Cloning disks - Unlock needed?

Cloning disks - Unlock needed?

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