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As far as drive cloning that only works on identical systems as well as identical same sized drives. Windows has it's own unique hardware profiling seen in XP and more rigid in Vista. In Vista without a clean install on a new system you will see the "you may have a counterfeit copy of Windows" message where you are then not activated. Cloning is mainly seen in businesses with at least a small business or corporate license since they will have several identical systems.
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If it's an OEM from like Dell or HP and you're trying to put it into a computer w/ a new mobo, then no it won't work. But different sized drives...yes it will. I just said in my previous post that I went from an 80GB IDE to a 320GB SATA without any hitch. And when I built my new computer, I transfered back to the 80GB, then installed my new OS on the 320GB. Both time cloning worked perfectly. It was on the same system, however, so I did not have to reactivate anything. And cloning isn't used in just businesses... I'm sure quite a few people on here do it, and I know my brother does it, and so do I.